Community Health Nursing Exam #3
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is the purpose of providing education across the three levels of prevention? Education:
a. enables clients to attain optimal health.
b. identifies and treats health problems early to eliminate disability.
c. enables populations to break into individuals.
d. teaches people about Healthy People 2020. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: A
Health education enables clients to attain optimal health, prevent health problems, and identify
and treat health problems early to minimize disability. Elimination of disability may not be
possible. Health education does not teach about the Healthy People 2020 document or break
populations into individuals.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 356
TOP: Nursing process: Evaluation
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Which statement about education is true?
a. It emphasizes the provider of knowledge and skills.
b. It emphasizes the recipient of knowledge and skills.
c. It is a process of gaining knowledge and expertise.
d. It results in behavioral change. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: A
Education is the establishment and arrangement of events to facilitate learning. Education
emphasizes the provider's role in providing knowledge and skills. Learning emphasizes the
recipient of knowledge and skills. Education does not necessarily result in change, as change is
,typically not easy for most people. Education is designed to effect changes in the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes, not necessarily expertise.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 357
TOP: Nursing process: Evaluation
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
A nurse uses Healthy People 2020 as a guide when planning health education in the community.
Which of the following actions would be taken by the nurse?
a. Focus on avoiding cigarette smoking and using alcohol in moderation
b. Educate clients using primary and secondary levels of prevention
c. Use Bloom's taxonomy when planning educational objectives
d. Design health fairs aimed at individuals - Correct answers✔✔ANS: B
Healthy People 2020 focuses on implementing health promotion in priority areas using primary
and secondary prevention. Understanding the three learning domains is crucial in providing
effective health care. Health fairs targeted at specific populations can provide a venue for
providing primary and secondary prevention.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 356
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
The cognitive domain includes:
a. changes in attitudes and the development of values.
b. the performance of skills.
c. memory, recognition, understanding, reasoning, and problem solving.
d. memorization of one set of skills before moving on to the next. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: C
,The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition, understanding, reasoning, and problem
solving. The affective domain includes changes in attitudes and the development of values. The
psychomotor domain includes the performance of skills that require some degree of
neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes motor skills. Memorization of skills is only one part
of the cognitive domain.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Assessment
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
A nurse is teaching a client about how to complete a wound dressing change. Which of the
following conditions must be met before learning will occur?
a. Must be able to memorize the instructions, relay this information to a partner, and demonstrate
the dressing change
b. Must master the dressing change at the time it is taught, repeat the demonstration for the nurse,
and teach another person
c. Must be able to speak the language of the nurse, have time to practice the dressing change, and
master the dressing change in a short time
d. Must have the necessary ability, a sensory image of how to carry out the dressing change, and
an opportunity to practice the dressing change - Correct answers✔✔ANS: D
Before psychomotor learning occurs, the learner must have the necessary ability, a sensory image
of how to carry out the skill, and an opportunity to practice the skill. This is the only option that
contains all of the necessary requirements of the learner.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: pp. 358-359
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
A health educator is trying to change a client's attitudes about smoking. Which of the following
domains would be used?
, a. Cognitive
b. Affective
c. Psychomotor
d. Developmental - Correct answers✔✔ANS: B
The affective domain is used to attempt to influence what individuals, families, communities,
and populations feel, think, and value. The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition,
understanding, reasoning, and problem solving. The psychomotor domain includes the
performance of skills that require some degree of neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes
motor skills. Developmental domain is not one of the domains of learning.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
The nurse is teaching a new diabetic client how to give himself an insulin injection. Which of the
following domains would be used?
a. Developmental
b. Cognitive
c. Affective
d. Psychomotor - Correct answers✔✔ANS: D
The psychomotor domain includes the performance of tasks that require some degree of
neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes motor skills. Developmental domain is not one of
the domains of learning. The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition, understanding,
reasoning, and problem solving. The affective domain is used to attempt to influence what
individuals, families, communities, and populations feel, think, and value.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is the purpose of providing education across the three levels of prevention? Education:
a. enables clients to attain optimal health.
b. identifies and treats health problems early to eliminate disability.
c. enables populations to break into individuals.
d. teaches people about Healthy People 2020. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: A
Health education enables clients to attain optimal health, prevent health problems, and identify
and treat health problems early to minimize disability. Elimination of disability may not be
possible. Health education does not teach about the Healthy People 2020 document or break
populations into individuals.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 356
TOP: Nursing process: Evaluation
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Which statement about education is true?
a. It emphasizes the provider of knowledge and skills.
b. It emphasizes the recipient of knowledge and skills.
c. It is a process of gaining knowledge and expertise.
d. It results in behavioral change. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: A
Education is the establishment and arrangement of events to facilitate learning. Education
emphasizes the provider's role in providing knowledge and skills. Learning emphasizes the
recipient of knowledge and skills. Education does not necessarily result in change, as change is
,typically not easy for most people. Education is designed to effect changes in the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes, not necessarily expertise.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 357
TOP: Nursing process: Evaluation
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
A nurse uses Healthy People 2020 as a guide when planning health education in the community.
Which of the following actions would be taken by the nurse?
a. Focus on avoiding cigarette smoking and using alcohol in moderation
b. Educate clients using primary and secondary levels of prevention
c. Use Bloom's taxonomy when planning educational objectives
d. Design health fairs aimed at individuals - Correct answers✔✔ANS: B
Healthy People 2020 focuses on implementing health promotion in priority areas using primary
and secondary prevention. Understanding the three learning domains is crucial in providing
effective health care. Health fairs targeted at specific populations can provide a venue for
providing primary and secondary prevention.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 356
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
The cognitive domain includes:
a. changes in attitudes and the development of values.
b. the performance of skills.
c. memory, recognition, understanding, reasoning, and problem solving.
d. memorization of one set of skills before moving on to the next. - Correct answers✔✔ANS: C
,The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition, understanding, reasoning, and problem
solving. The affective domain includes changes in attitudes and the development of values. The
psychomotor domain includes the performance of skills that require some degree of
neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes motor skills. Memorization of skills is only one part
of the cognitive domain.
DIF: Cognitive level: Understanding REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Assessment
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
A nurse is teaching a client about how to complete a wound dressing change. Which of the
following conditions must be met before learning will occur?
a. Must be able to memorize the instructions, relay this information to a partner, and demonstrate
the dressing change
b. Must master the dressing change at the time it is taught, repeat the demonstration for the nurse,
and teach another person
c. Must be able to speak the language of the nurse, have time to practice the dressing change, and
master the dressing change in a short time
d. Must have the necessary ability, a sensory image of how to carry out the dressing change, and
an opportunity to practice the dressing change - Correct answers✔✔ANS: D
Before psychomotor learning occurs, the learner must have the necessary ability, a sensory image
of how to carry out the skill, and an opportunity to practice the skill. This is the only option that
contains all of the necessary requirements of the learner.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: pp. 358-359
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
A health educator is trying to change a client's attitudes about smoking. Which of the following
domains would be used?
, a. Cognitive
b. Affective
c. Psychomotor
d. Developmental - Correct answers✔✔ANS: B
The affective domain is used to attempt to influence what individuals, families, communities,
and populations feel, think, and value. The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition,
understanding, reasoning, and problem solving. The psychomotor domain includes the
performance of skills that require some degree of neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes
motor skills. Developmental domain is not one of the domains of learning.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance
The nurse is teaching a new diabetic client how to give himself an insulin injection. Which of the
following domains would be used?
a. Developmental
b. Cognitive
c. Affective
d. Psychomotor - Correct answers✔✔ANS: D
The psychomotor domain includes the performance of tasks that require some degree of
neuromuscular coordination and emphasizes motor skills. Developmental domain is not one of
the domains of learning. The cognitive domain includes memory, recognition, understanding,
reasoning, and problem solving. The affective domain is used to attempt to influence what
individuals, families, communities, and populations feel, think, and value.
DIF: Cognitive level: Applying REF: p. 358
TOP: Nursing process: Implementation
