Week 3 Community Health Nursing Practice Exam Questions with 100% Verified Answers

Week 3: Community Health Nursing
Practice

Community Health Nursing Practices - Answers --a model of care
-occurs outside of traditional health care facilities
-challenges include:
→social lifestyles, political policy & economic initiatives
-primary goal focus on health care of individuals, families, & groups
-includes:
→public health nursing, home healthy (community based nursing, community mental
health nursing

Introduction/History - Answers --A Statement of Functions and Qualifications for the
Practice of Public Health Nursing in Canada (1966).
-Updated version (1976): The Nurse and Community Health: Functions and
Qualifications for Practice in Canada
-In (1990) CPHA released: Community Health - Public Health Nursing in Canada:
Preparation & Practice, known as the "Green Book"
-CPHA & Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC) together produced "Public
Health: Community Health Nursing Practice in Canada, Roles and Activities (2010).

Public Health/Community Health Nursing - Answers --KNOWLEDGE: public health
science, primary health care (including the DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH), nursing
science, social sciences
-FOCUS: promoting, protecting, & preserving the health of populations
-LINK: health & illness experiences of individuals, families, & communities to population
health promotion practice
-RECOGNIZE: community health linked to health of its members
-PRACTICE: in diverse settings

Community Based Nursing - Answers --contribute in many ways to improved
individual/population health
-LEADERS: change, systems, policy
-KEY ROLES: prevention, health promotion
-involves acute & chronic care & vulnerable populations

CNA's Code of Ethics - Answers --nurses in all domains of practice bear the ethical
responsibilities identified under each of the 7 primary nursing values
→providing safe, compassionate, competent & ethical care
→promoting health & well being
→promoting & respecting informed decision making
→preserving dignity

, →maintaining privacy & confidentiality
→promoting justice
→being accountable

Which statement about community health nursing is correct?
a.) it operates the same today as it has since nurses began working with community
groups
b.) it is resistant to many social, economic, political, & demographic influences in
Canada
c.) it is changing from universal programs to those directed to high risk or vulnerable
groups
d.) it focuses primarily on behaviour modification & healthy lifestyles & workplace
changes - Answers -C

Community Health Nursing Roles & Skills - Answers --Communication
-Facilitation
-Leadership
-Advocacy
-Consultation
-Team building and collaboration
-Building capacity
-BUILDING COALITIONS & NETWORKS
-Outreach
-Resource management, planning, coordination
-Case management
-Care/counselling
-Referral and follow-up
-Screening
-Surveillance
-HEALTH THREAT RESPONSE
-Health education
-Community development
-Policy development and implementation
-Research and evaluation

Community Health Nursing is Guided by - Answers --values of caring
-principles of primary health care
-multiple ways of knowing
-individual & community partnerships
-EMPOWERMENT
-social justice

Vulnerable populations:
a.) represent those who are cared for by community health nurses
b.) are individuals that have unusual & chronic conditions
c.) represent only those individuals who are poor & live on streets