Test Bank For
Community and
Public Health
Nursing, Promoting
the Public’s Health,
8th Edition Judith
Ann Allender, Cherie
Rector, Kristine D.
Warner
, 1. A group of students are reviewing the various historical events associated with the
evolution of community health nursing in preparation for a test. They identify the time
from 1970 to the present as the era known as community health nursing based on the
understanding that which of the following influences contributed most to this change?
A) The settings and the nurses delivering health care in the community
B) Decisions made by the American Nurses Association
C) Decisions made by physicians in a variety of community settings
D) The demand to eliminate the word “public” from health services
Ans: A
Feedback:
The numbers, increasing variety of settings, and many nurses coming to work in the
community settings since the 1970s have contributed most significantly to the change.
As a result, professional associations supported the broader term of community health
nursing. Physician decisions played no role in the change. The term public health
nursing still remains.
2. Before the mid-1800s, early home care nursing was best recognized by which of the
following?
A) Technical advances with the Industrial Revolution making major changes
B) Care provided by family members, friends, and religious groups in the home
C) Accomplishments stemming from the work of Florence Nightingale
D) Formal organization of visiting nursing to provide care to the sick poor
Ans: B
Feedback:
Before the mid-1800s, early home care was characterized by care of the sick in the
home by family members, friends, and religious groups. Technical advances came after
1850, as did the work of Florence Nightingale and the formal organization of visiting
nurses to provide care to the sick poor.
3. Community health nursing has a long history of contributing to the health of
populations. Which of the following forms of service would the nurse identify as being
most recent?
A) Voluntary home nursing care for the sick poor via district nursing
B) Care provided termed public health nursing
C) Lay and religious groups providing care to the sick poor in their homes
D) Focus on populations with community health nursing seen as a specialty field
Ans: D
Feedback:
The four stages of community health nursing followed from lay and religious groups
providing care in the early years before 1850, the more specialized “health nurses” or
district nursing after the mid-1800s, concern for the health of the general public from
1900s to 1970, and finally community health nursing as a specialty with a focus on
populations since 1970.
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Community and
Public Health
Nursing, Promoting
the Public’s Health,
8th Edition Judith
Ann Allender, Cherie
Rector, Kristine D.
Warner
, 1. A group of students are reviewing the various historical events associated with the
evolution of community health nursing in preparation for a test. They identify the time
from 1970 to the present as the era known as community health nursing based on the
understanding that which of the following influences contributed most to this change?
A) The settings and the nurses delivering health care in the community
B) Decisions made by the American Nurses Association
C) Decisions made by physicians in a variety of community settings
D) The demand to eliminate the word “public” from health services
Ans: A
Feedback:
The numbers, increasing variety of settings, and many nurses coming to work in the
community settings since the 1970s have contributed most significantly to the change.
As a result, professional associations supported the broader term of community health
nursing. Physician decisions played no role in the change. The term public health
nursing still remains.
2. Before the mid-1800s, early home care nursing was best recognized by which of the
following?
A) Technical advances with the Industrial Revolution making major changes
B) Care provided by family members, friends, and religious groups in the home
C) Accomplishments stemming from the work of Florence Nightingale
D) Formal organization of visiting nursing to provide care to the sick poor
Ans: B
Feedback:
Before the mid-1800s, early home care was characterized by care of the sick in the
home by family members, friends, and religious groups. Technical advances came after
1850, as did the work of Florence Nightingale and the formal organization of visiting
nurses to provide care to the sick poor.
3. Community health nursing has a long history of contributing to the health of
populations. Which of the following forms of service would the nurse identify as being
most recent?
A) Voluntary home nursing care for the sick poor via district nursing
B) Care provided termed public health nursing
C) Lay and religious groups providing care to the sick poor in their homes
D) Focus on populations with community health nursing seen as a specialty field
Ans: D
Feedback:
The four stages of community health nursing followed from lay and religious groups
providing care in the early years before 1850, the more specialized “health nurses” or
district nursing after the mid-1800s, concern for the health of the general public from
1900s to 1970, and finally community health nursing as a specialty with a focus on
populations since 1970.
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