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A nurse is assessing the status of a community's health. Which of the following will the
nurse examine?
a. Health Facilities
b. Health care manpower
c. Community awareness
d. Vital statistics
Ans: d. Vital statistics
Persons often point out that smokers choose to light their cigarettes, alcoholics lift the glass
to their mouth, and drug addicts inject or ingest their drugs. Which of the following
statements best describes why nurses don't simply focus on helping persons who engage in
poor health behaviors to behave appropriately?
a. It is too rewarding to continue the behavior for a person to be able to change
b. Society must offer health choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies
c. Addicts don't have the willpower to change their behavior
d. Laws and policies must reward good healthy behaviors and punish unhealthy behaviors
to help individuals recognize the importance of change
,Ans: b. Society must offer healthy choices, offer support, and practice helpful policies.
Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the core competencies for
health professionals? Select all that apply.
a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
b. Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
c. Maintaining public health departments throughout the United States
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
Ans: a. Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the
community
d. Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
A registered nurse was just employed as a public health nurse. Which question would be
most relevant for the nurse to ask?
a. "With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?"
b. "With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?"
c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
d. "Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?"
Ans: c. "Which groups are the greatest risk for problems?"
Which of the following actions demonstrate effective public health nursing practice in the
community? Select all that apply.
a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
c. Staff members at the public health agency continue to increase in number
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards
, Ans: a. New services are organized where particular vulnerable populations live
b. Partnerships are established with community coalitions
d. Epidemiologic interventions to examine the environment for health hazards
Why are nurses increasingly providing care in clients' homes rather than hospitals?
a. Nurses prefer to give home care with individual attention
b. It is much more efficient to give care in the home
c. People prefer to receive care in their homes rather than in hospitals
d. Home care is less expensive
Ans: d. Home care is less expensive
A nurse is deciding which alternative interventions should be implemented. Which of the
following factors must be considered by the nurse when making this decision? Select all
that apply.
a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
b. The nurse's own interest in implementing each intervention
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention
Ans: a. The likelihood that the intervention will resolve the problem
c. The expected effect or outcome of each possible intervention
d. How interested others are in helping with any particular intervention
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the
20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs