NR 443 EXAM 1 REVIEW TYPED
1. What is the community nursing role?
• The major goal to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations is
the synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice
• Focus on health promotion and health maintenance
• Is associated with and identification of populations at risk and not one patient
2. Public health nursing goal?
• Designed to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by
focusing on health promotions and health maintenance of individuals, families and
groups within the community
3. What factors influence health?
• Living arrangements
• Work/school environment
• Societal & environmental change
• Economics
• Lifestyle changes
• Genetics
4. Assessment is the regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health
conditions, risks and resources in a community
5. Using information gathered during assessment to develop local and state health policies
is called policy development
6. Assurance is a core public health function that focuses on the availability of necessary
health services throughout the community
7. Which of the following entities strives to improve the health of all the public by
promoting healthy lifestyles, preventing disease and injury, and protecting the health of
communities?
• Public health system
8. Population focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
• Community diagnosis
9. What is the primary goal of community health nursing?
• To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
10. What determines a community?
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, • A group of collection of locality-based individuals, interacting in social units and sharing
common interests, characteristics, values and/or goals.
11. Community and public health nursing practice
• Nurses practice disease prevention and health promotion
• Practice is collaborative
• Practice is based on research and theory
• Applies the nursing process to the care of the community
• Individuals
• Families
• Aggregate focused nursing are subgroups or subpopulations that have some common
characteristics of concerns
12. Community health nursing healthcare is a community-based practice. Which best
explains this statement?
• The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems
13. The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine
its health status. Which of the following activities should be considered in the
assessment phase?
• Collecting, analyzing and disseminating information
• Evaluating the social, economic and environmental characteristics of the
population
• Questioning the availability of health services to the community
Primary level of prevention: true prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
• Health promotion
• Specific protection
Secondary level of prevention focuses on those who have early stages of a disease or are at risk
to develop a disease
• Early diagnosis
• Prompt treatment
• Disability limitation
Tertiary level of prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible
• Restoration
• Rehabilitation
14. What is healthy people 2020?
• Define national emphasis for health promotion and disease prevention efforts
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1. What is the community nursing role?
• The major goal to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations is
the synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice
• Focus on health promotion and health maintenance
• Is associated with and identification of populations at risk and not one patient
2. Public health nursing goal?
• Designed to preserve the health of the community and surrounding populations by
focusing on health promotions and health maintenance of individuals, families and
groups within the community
3. What factors influence health?
• Living arrangements
• Work/school environment
• Societal & environmental change
• Economics
• Lifestyle changes
• Genetics
4. Assessment is the regular collection, analysis, and information sharing about health
conditions, risks and resources in a community
5. Using information gathered during assessment to develop local and state health policies
is called policy development
6. Assurance is a core public health function that focuses on the availability of necessary
health services throughout the community
7. Which of the following entities strives to improve the health of all the public by
promoting healthy lifestyles, preventing disease and injury, and protecting the health of
communities?
• Public health system
8. Population focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
• Community diagnosis
9. What is the primary goal of community health nursing?
• To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their
health needs
10. What determines a community?
1
, • A group of collection of locality-based individuals, interacting in social units and sharing
common interests, characteristics, values and/or goals.
11. Community and public health nursing practice
• Nurses practice disease prevention and health promotion
• Practice is collaborative
• Practice is based on research and theory
• Applies the nursing process to the care of the community
• Individuals
• Families
• Aggregate focused nursing are subgroups or subpopulations that have some common
characteristics of concerns
12. Community health nursing healthcare is a community-based practice. Which best
explains this statement?
• The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems
13. The public health nurse deals with the examination of a community setting to determine
its health status. Which of the following activities should be considered in the
assessment phase?
• Collecting, analyzing and disseminating information
• Evaluating the social, economic and environmental characteristics of the
population
• Questioning the availability of health services to the community
Primary level of prevention: true prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
• Health promotion
• Specific protection
Secondary level of prevention focuses on those who have early stages of a disease or are at risk
to develop a disease
• Early diagnosis
• Prompt treatment
• Disability limitation
Tertiary level of prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible
• Restoration
• Rehabilitation
14. What is healthy people 2020?
• Define national emphasis for health promotion and disease prevention efforts
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