Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According
to the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2015), community health
nurses must align themselves with public health programs that promote and
preserve the health of populations by influencing
Socioeconomic issues
Psychosocial issues
Sociocultural issues
Developmental issues - ✅✅-Sociocultural
Mary is a nursing student doing her senior project in community health. Part of
her assignment is to conduct an activity that illustrates "social health" within a
group in her community. The most appropriate activity for Mary to organize
would be a
Neighborhood block party
Food bank in a local church
Community yard sale
School fundraiser for the school band - ✅✅-Food bank in a local church
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are
responsible for what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
20
40
50
70 - ✅✅-50
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in
addressing health and disease in the immigrant community by
supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions
of immigrant families.
, administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their families.
teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in the home.
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obtaining and administering medications to the immigrants and their family
members. - -supporting political activities to improve social and
environmental conditions of immigrant families.
Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the effects of
disease. An example of primary disease prevention is
teaching people with diabetes how to prevent complications.
administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
checking the skin of farm workers for signs of skin cancer.
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identifying and testing individuals exposed to someone with tuberculosis. -
-administering vaccines to children before kindergarten.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes a
national prevention initiative titled Healthy People. One of the new objectives
for Healthy People 2020 is to
achieve access to preventive services of all Americans.
improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover
from a major health incident.
reduce health disparities among Americans.
increase independence of older Americans. - ✅✅ -improve the nation's ability
to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major health incident.
Which is an example of "community health nursing" rather than
"community-based nursing"?
An RN assisting a doctor in a pediatrician's office
An RN visiting a home-bound patient to monitor for congestive heart failure