Stanhope and Lancaster's Community Health
Nursing in Canada 4th Edition by Macdonald,
Chapter 1 to 18,
TEST BANK
,Table of contents
UNIT I: Background and Roles for Community Health Nursing
1. Community Health Nursing
2. The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada
3. Community Health Nursing in Canada: Settings, Functions, and Roles
UNIT II: Community Health Foundations and Principles
4. Health Promotion
5. Evidence-Informed Practice in Community Health Nursing
6. Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice
7. Diversity and Relational Practice in Community Health Nursing
8. Epidemiological Applications
9. Working With the Community
10. Health Program Planning and Evaluation
UNIT III: Stakeholders and Populations of Community Health Nursing Practice
11. Working With the Individual as Client: Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan
12. Working With Families
13. Working with Groups, Teams, and Partners
14. Indigenous Health: Working with First Nations People, Inuit, and Métis
15. Working with Working with People Who Experience Structural Vulnerabilities
UNIT IV: Specific Domains of Community Health Practice
16. Communicable and Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
17. Environmental Health
18. Disaster Management
, Chapter 01: Community Health Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group’s needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care
ANS: C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual
clients in the community.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remember
REF: Introduction OBJ: 1.6 TOP: Safe and Effective Care
Environment
2. Which of the following best describes primary
health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
ANS: A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of
social justice and equity. Social justice in the context of health refers to ensuring
fairness and equality in health services so that vulnerable individuals in society
have easy access to health care.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level:
Knowledge/Remember REF: Primary Health Care
OBJ: 1.4
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
3. The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses
(PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals
d. Populations
ANS: D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for
the promotion and protection of health and for the prevention of disease among
populations.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level:
Knowledge/Remember REF: Public Health Practice OBJ:
, 1.5
TOP: Health Promotion and Maintenance
4. Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so
notably since the early 1900s?
a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research