Subject - Health Nursing C. 201
D. 301
Community Health Nursing Practice Questions with Answers
Answer: (B) 101
1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing? Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
A. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the
promotion of health and prevention of illness 6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles,
B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to she is performing which of her roles?
cope with their health needs A. Health care provider
C. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with B. Health educator
services that will increase their level of health C. Health care coordinator
D. To contribute to national development through promotion of family D. Environmental manager
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children.
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker’s
communities to cope with their health needs environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example.
To contribute to national development through promotion of family
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children. 7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall
provide the occupational health needs of the factory workers?
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
statement? B. Physician employed by the factory
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people. C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
needs and problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
community. You’re right! This question is based on R.A.1054.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems
identified. 8. “Public health services are given free of charge.” Is this statement true
or false?
Answer: A. The service is provided in the natural environment of A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide
people.
basic services.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following required.
processes? D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the
A. Community organizing government concerned.
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public
D. Epidemiologic process health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis services, though taxation, for example.
Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the
greater need of the majority of the population. The greater need is 9. According to C.E.Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public
identified through community diagnosis. Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
number of employees, what other factor must be considered in C. For people to have access to basic health services
determining the occupational health privileges to which the workers will D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities longevity
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize
D. Sex and age composition of employees their birthrights of health and longevity.
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities 10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach
Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when the average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to
there are 30 to 100 employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. determine attainment of longevity?
away from the nearest health center. A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has C. Swaroop’s index
at least how many employees? D. Case fatality rate
A. 21
B. 101
, 16. Which is an example of the school nurse’s health care provider
Answer: (C) Swaroop’s index functions?
Swaroop’s index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older. Its A. Requesting for BCG from the RHU for school entrant immunization
inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died B. Conducting random classroom inspection during a measles epidemic
younger than 50 years). C. Taking remedial action on an accident hazard in the school
playground
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health D. Observing places in the school where pupils spend their free time
nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in Answer: (B) Conducting random classroom inspection during a
the hospital. measles epidemic
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment Random classroom inspection is assessment of pupils/students and
area. teachers for signs of a health problem prevalent in the community.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public
health nursing services. 17. When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services. implementing Ligtas Tigdas, she is evaluating
A. Effectiveness
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not B. Efficiency
curative, services. C. Adequacy
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of D. Appropriateness
whom are well individuals who have greater need for preventive rather
than curative services. Answer: (B) Efficiency
Efficiency is determining whether the goals were attained at the least
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health possible cost.
nursing is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights 18. You are a new B.S.N. graduate. You want to become a Public Health
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens Nurse. Where will you apply?
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing A. Department of Health
D. The worth and dignity of man B. Provincial Health Office
C. Regional Health Office
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man D. Rural Health Unit
This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland’s statements on Public
Health Nursing. Answer: (D) Rural Health Unit
R.A. 7160 devolved basic health services to local government units
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health? (LGU’s ). The public health nurse is an employee of the LGU.
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care 19. R.A. 7160 mandates devolution of basic services from the national
C. Improve the general health status of the population government to local government units. Which of the following is the
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020 major goal of devolution?
A. To strengthen local government units
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care B. To allow greater autonomy to local government units
(none) C. To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
D. To make basic services more accessible to the people
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary Answer: (C) To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
B. Secondary People empowerment is the basic motivation behind devolution of basic
C. Intermediate services to LGU’s.
D. Tertiary
20. Who is the Chairman of the Municipal Health Board?
Answer: (D) Tertiary A. Mayor
Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training B. Municipal Health Officer
hospitals for the region. C. Public Health Nurse
D. Any qualified physician
15. Which is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run. Answer: (A) Mayor
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. The local executive serves as the chairman of the Municipal Health
C. They are training facilities for health professionals. Board.
D. A community hospital is an example of this level of health facilities.
21. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. the health care delivery system?
Primary facilities government and non-government facilities that provide A. Primary
basic out-patient services. B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
, D. Tertiary
Answer: (A) Act 3573
Answer: (A) Primary Act 3573, the Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases, enacted in
The entry of a person into the health care delivery system is usually 1929, mandated the reporting of diseases listed in the law to the nearest
through a consultation in out-patient services. health station.
22. The public health nurse is the supervisor of rural health midwives. 27. According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a
Which of the following is a supervisory function of the public health developmental service. Which of the following best illustrates this
nurse? statement?
A. Referring cases or patients to the midwife A. The community health nurse continuously develops himself personally
B. Providing technical guidance to the midwife and professionally.
C. Providing nursing care to cases referred by the midwife B. Health education and community organizing are necessary in
D. Formulating and implementing training programs for midwives providing community health services.
C. Community health nursing is intended primarily for health promotion
Answer: (B) Providing technical guidance to the midwife and prevention and treatment of disease.
The nurse provides technical guidance to the midwife in the care of D. The goal of community health nursing is to provide nursing services to
clients, particularly in the implementation of management guidelines, as people in their own places of residence.
in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.
Answer: (B) Health education and community organizing are
23. One of the participants in a hilot training class asked you to whom necessary in providing community health services.
she should refer a patient in labor who develops a complication. You will The community health nurse develops the health capability of people
answer, to the through health education and community organizing activities.
A. Public Health Nurse
B. Rural Health Midwife 28. Which disease was declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 4
C. Municipal Health Officer as a target for eradication in the Philippines?
D. Any of these health professionals A. Poliomyelitis
B. Measles
Answer: (C) Municipal Health Officer C. Rabies
A public health nurse and rural health midwife can provide care during D. Neonatal tetanus
normal childbirth. A physician should attend to a woman with a
complication during labor. Answer: (B) Measles
Presidential Proclamation No. 4 is on the Ligtas Tigdas Program.
24. You are the public health nurse in a municipality with a total
population of about 20,000. There are 3 rural health midwives among the 29. The public health nurse is responsible for presenting the municipal
RHU personnel. How many more midwife items will the RHU need? health statistics using graphs and tables. To compare the frequency of
A. 1 the leading causes of mortality in the municipality, which graph will you
B. 2 prepare?
C. 3 A. Line
D. The RHU does not need any more midwife item. B. Bar
C. Pie
Answer: (A) 1 D. Scatter diagram
Each rural health midwife is given a population assignment of about
5,000. Answer: (B) Bar
A bar graph is used to present comparison of values, a line graph for
25. If the RHU needs additional midwife items, you will submit the trends over time or age, a pie graph for population composition or
request for additional midwife items for approval to the distribution, and a scatter diagram for correlation of two variables.
A. Rural Health Unit
B. District Health Office 30. Which step in community organizing involves training of potential
C. Provincial Health Office leaders in the community?
D. Municipal Health Board A. Integration
B. Community organization
Answer: (D) Municipal Health Board C. Community study
As mandated by R.A. 7160, basic health services have been devolved D. Core group formation
from the national government to local government units.
Answer: (D) Core group formation
26. As an epidemiologist, the nurse is responsible for reporting cases of In core group formation, the nurse is able to transfer the technology of
notifiable diseases. What law mandates reporting of cases of notifiable community organizing to the potential or informal community leaders
diseases? through a training program.
A. Act 3573
B. R.A. 3753 31. In which step are plans formulated for solving community problems?
C. R.A. 1054 A. Mobilization
D. R.A. 1082 B. Community organization
D. 301
Community Health Nursing Practice Questions with Answers
Answer: (B) 101
1. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing? Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
A. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the
promotion of health and prevention of illness 6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles,
B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to she is performing which of her roles?
cope with their health needs A. Health care provider
C. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with B. Health educator
services that will increase their level of health C. Health care coordinator
D. To contribute to national development through promotion of family D. Environmental manager
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children.
Answer: (D) Environmental manager
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker’s
communities to cope with their health needs environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example.
To contribute to national development through promotion of family
welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children. 7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall
provide the occupational health needs of the factory workers?
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
statement? B. Physician employed by the factory
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people. C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
needs and problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
community. You’re right! This question is based on R.A.1054.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems
identified. 8. “Public health services are given free of charge.” Is this statement true
or false?
Answer: A. The service is provided in the natural environment of A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide
people.
basic services.
Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following required.
processes? D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the
A. Community organizing government concerned.
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public
D. Epidemiologic process health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis services, though taxation, for example.
Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the
greater need of the majority of the population. The greater need is 9. According to C.E.Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public
identified through community diagnosis. Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights of health and longevity
4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
number of employees, what other factor must be considered in C. For people to have access to basic health services
determining the occupational health privileges to which the workers will D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial Answer: (A) For people to attain their birthrights of health and
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities longevity
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize
D. Sex and age composition of employees their birthrights of health and longevity.
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities 10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach
Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when the average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to
there are 30 to 100 employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. determine attainment of longevity?
away from the nearest health center. A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has C. Swaroop’s index
at least how many employees? D. Case fatality rate
A. 21
B. 101
, 16. Which is an example of the school nurse’s health care provider
Answer: (C) Swaroop’s index functions?
Swaroop’s index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or older. Its A. Requesting for BCG from the RHU for school entrant immunization
inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died B. Conducting random classroom inspection during a measles epidemic
younger than 50 years). C. Taking remedial action on an accident hazard in the school
playground
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health D. Observing places in the school where pupils spend their free time
nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in Answer: (B) Conducting random classroom inspection during a
the hospital. measles epidemic
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment Random classroom inspection is assessment of pupils/students and
area. teachers for signs of a health problem prevalent in the community.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public
health nursing services. 17. When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services. implementing Ligtas Tigdas, she is evaluating
A. Effectiveness
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not B. Efficiency
curative, services. C. Adequacy
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of D. Appropriateness
whom are well individuals who have greater need for preventive rather
than curative services. Answer: (B) Efficiency
Efficiency is determining whether the goals were attained at the least
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health possible cost.
nursing is based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birthrights 18. You are a new B.S.N. graduate. You want to become a Public Health
B. The mandate of the state to protect the birthrights of its citizens Nurse. Where will you apply?
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field of nursing A. Department of Health
D. The worth and dignity of man B. Provincial Health Office
C. Regional Health Office
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man D. Rural Health Unit
This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret Shetland’s statements on Public
Health Nursing. Answer: (D) Rural Health Unit
R.A. 7160 devolved basic health services to local government units
13. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health? (LGU’s ). The public health nurse is an employee of the LGU.
A. Health for all Filipinos
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care 19. R.A. 7160 mandates devolution of basic services from the national
C. Improve the general health status of the population government to local government units. Which of the following is the
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020 major goal of devolution?
A. To strengthen local government units
Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care B. To allow greater autonomy to local government units
(none) C. To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
D. To make basic services more accessible to the people
14. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
A. Primary Answer: (C) To empower the people and promote their self-reliance
B. Secondary People empowerment is the basic motivation behind devolution of basic
C. Intermediate services to LGU’s.
D. Tertiary
20. Who is the Chairman of the Municipal Health Board?
Answer: (D) Tertiary A. Mayor
Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities because they serve as training B. Municipal Health Officer
hospitals for the region. C. Public Health Nurse
D. Any qualified physician
15. Which is true of primary facilities?
A. They are usually government-run. Answer: (A) Mayor
B. Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. The local executive serves as the chairman of the Municipal Health
C. They are training facilities for health professionals. Board.
D. A community hospital is an example of this level of health facilities.
21. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into
Answer: (B) Their services are provided on an out-patient basis. the health care delivery system?
Primary facilities government and non-government facilities that provide A. Primary
basic out-patient services. B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
, D. Tertiary
Answer: (A) Act 3573
Answer: (A) Primary Act 3573, the Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases, enacted in
The entry of a person into the health care delivery system is usually 1929, mandated the reporting of diseases listed in the law to the nearest
through a consultation in out-patient services. health station.
22. The public health nurse is the supervisor of rural health midwives. 27. According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a
Which of the following is a supervisory function of the public health developmental service. Which of the following best illustrates this
nurse? statement?
A. Referring cases or patients to the midwife A. The community health nurse continuously develops himself personally
B. Providing technical guidance to the midwife and professionally.
C. Providing nursing care to cases referred by the midwife B. Health education and community organizing are necessary in
D. Formulating and implementing training programs for midwives providing community health services.
C. Community health nursing is intended primarily for health promotion
Answer: (B) Providing technical guidance to the midwife and prevention and treatment of disease.
The nurse provides technical guidance to the midwife in the care of D. The goal of community health nursing is to provide nursing services to
clients, particularly in the implementation of management guidelines, as people in their own places of residence.
in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.
Answer: (B) Health education and community organizing are
23. One of the participants in a hilot training class asked you to whom necessary in providing community health services.
she should refer a patient in labor who develops a complication. You will The community health nurse develops the health capability of people
answer, to the through health education and community organizing activities.
A. Public Health Nurse
B. Rural Health Midwife 28. Which disease was declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 4
C. Municipal Health Officer as a target for eradication in the Philippines?
D. Any of these health professionals A. Poliomyelitis
B. Measles
Answer: (C) Municipal Health Officer C. Rabies
A public health nurse and rural health midwife can provide care during D. Neonatal tetanus
normal childbirth. A physician should attend to a woman with a
complication during labor. Answer: (B) Measles
Presidential Proclamation No. 4 is on the Ligtas Tigdas Program.
24. You are the public health nurse in a municipality with a total
population of about 20,000. There are 3 rural health midwives among the 29. The public health nurse is responsible for presenting the municipal
RHU personnel. How many more midwife items will the RHU need? health statistics using graphs and tables. To compare the frequency of
A. 1 the leading causes of mortality in the municipality, which graph will you
B. 2 prepare?
C. 3 A. Line
D. The RHU does not need any more midwife item. B. Bar
C. Pie
Answer: (A) 1 D. Scatter diagram
Each rural health midwife is given a population assignment of about
5,000. Answer: (B) Bar
A bar graph is used to present comparison of values, a line graph for
25. If the RHU needs additional midwife items, you will submit the trends over time or age, a pie graph for population composition or
request for additional midwife items for approval to the distribution, and a scatter diagram for correlation of two variables.
A. Rural Health Unit
B. District Health Office 30. Which step in community organizing involves training of potential
C. Provincial Health Office leaders in the community?
D. Municipal Health Board A. Integration
B. Community organization
Answer: (D) Municipal Health Board C. Community study
As mandated by R.A. 7160, basic health services have been devolved D. Core group formation
from the national government to local government units.
Answer: (D) Core group formation
26. As an epidemiologist, the nurse is responsible for reporting cases of In core group formation, the nurse is able to transfer the technology of
notifiable diseases. What law mandates reporting of cases of notifiable community organizing to the potential or informal community leaders
diseases? through a training program.
A. Act 3573
B. R.A. 3753 31. In which step are plans formulated for solving community problems?
C. R.A. 1054 A. Mobilization
D. R.A. 1082 B. Community organization
