WGU D450 CHPT 1 OVERVIEW OF COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSING EXAM 76 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Community Health Nursing:
-broad
-wide variety of settings
-allows nurses to practice in wide variety of settings
-Promote health and welfare of clients
-across the lifespan
-Nurses working in the community should understand the foundations of CHN, the
principles of CHN, and health promo and disease prevention - CORRECT ANSWER
Community Health Nursing:
-Is it broad or specific?
-Wide variety of settings or limited?
-Do they promote health and welfare of pts?
-Specific age groups?
-Diverse populations or specific cultures?
-Nurses working in the community should have an understanding of what 3
things?
Nursing theory - CORRECT ANSWER What provides the basis for care of the
community and family?
Nightingale's theory of environment
,Health belief model
Milio's framework for prevention - CORRECT ANSWER What are three examples of
CHN theories?
Nightingale's theory of environment:
-Highlights the relationship b/w an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care - CORRECT ANSWER Nightingale's Theory of
environment:
-What relationship does it highlight?
-What does it depict health as?
-What does it emphasis?
Health belief model:
-Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors
-Preventive health behaviors- primarily taken to avoid disease
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on:
1)Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of a disease
2)Modifying factors (e.g., demographics, knowledge level)
3)Cues to action (media campaigns, disease impact on family/friends,
recommendations from HCP)
4) Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action - CORRECT
ANSWER Health belief model:
, -What is the purpose?
-Purpose of preventive health behaviors?
-Emphasizes change at what level?
-Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on what 4
things?
Milio's framework for prevention:
-Compliments the health belief model
-Emphasizes change at the community level
-Relationship b/w health deficits and availability of heath promoting resources
-Behavior changes w/in a large number of people can ultimately lead to social
change - CORRECT ANSWER Milio's framework for prevention:
-What does it complement?
-What does it emphasize?
-What relationship does it identify?
-What does it theorize?
-Community- group of people and institutions that share geographic, civic, and/or
social parameters.
-Communities vary in the characteristics and health needs.
-Community's health is determined by the degree to which the community's
collective health needs are identified and met. - CORRECT ANSWER -What is a
community?
-Do communities vary in their characteristics and health needs?
-What is a community's health determined by?
HEALTH NURSING EXAM 76 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Community Health Nursing:
-broad
-wide variety of settings
-allows nurses to practice in wide variety of settings
-Promote health and welfare of clients
-across the lifespan
-Nurses working in the community should understand the foundations of CHN, the
principles of CHN, and health promo and disease prevention - CORRECT ANSWER
Community Health Nursing:
-Is it broad or specific?
-Wide variety of settings or limited?
-Do they promote health and welfare of pts?
-Specific age groups?
-Diverse populations or specific cultures?
-Nurses working in the community should have an understanding of what 3
things?
Nursing theory - CORRECT ANSWER What provides the basis for care of the
community and family?
Nightingale's theory of environment
,Health belief model
Milio's framework for prevention - CORRECT ANSWER What are three examples of
CHN theories?
Nightingale's theory of environment:
-Highlights the relationship b/w an individual's environment and health
-Depicts health as a continuum
-Emphasizes preventive care - CORRECT ANSWER Nightingale's Theory of
environment:
-What relationship does it highlight?
-What does it depict health as?
-What does it emphasis?
Health belief model:
-Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors
-Preventive health behaviors- primarily taken to avoid disease
-Emphasizes change at the individual level
-Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on:
1)Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of a disease
2)Modifying factors (e.g., demographics, knowledge level)
3)Cues to action (media campaigns, disease impact on family/friends,
recommendations from HCP)
4) Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action - CORRECT
ANSWER Health belief model:
, -What is the purpose?
-Purpose of preventive health behaviors?
-Emphasizes change at what level?
-Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on what 4
things?
Milio's framework for prevention:
-Compliments the health belief model
-Emphasizes change at the community level
-Relationship b/w health deficits and availability of heath promoting resources
-Behavior changes w/in a large number of people can ultimately lead to social
change - CORRECT ANSWER Milio's framework for prevention:
-What does it complement?
-What does it emphasize?
-What relationship does it identify?
-What does it theorize?
-Community- group of people and institutions that share geographic, civic, and/or
social parameters.
-Communities vary in the characteristics and health needs.
-Community's health is determined by the degree to which the community's
collective health needs are identified and met. - CORRECT ANSWER -What is a
community?
-Do communities vary in their characteristics and health needs?
-What is a community's health determined by?
