NSG 3480 COMMUNITY HEALTH UNIT 2 3 4 REVIEW FOR
EXAM 1 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING COURSE
2025/2026 | VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ | PUBLIC HEALTH, COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
& HEALTH PROMOTION STUDY GUIDE | GUARANTEED
SUCCESS
A nurse has accepted a new position in a public health department. Which
characteristic is crucial to the nurse's success?
a. Advanced educational preparation
b. Being knowledgeable about the community's needs
c. Listening and showing respect
d. Caring and empathetic personality - CORRECT ANSWER - c. Listening
and showing respect
A nurse is using a macroscopic approach when providing care. Which would
the nurse most likely demonstrate?
a. Emphasizing behaviors that will help in healing
b. Examining the family's responses to illness
c. Explaining how these actions will help in healing
d. Providing testimony to legislators concerning proposed legislation -
CORRECT ANSWER - d. Providing testimony to legislators concerning
proposed legislation
A nurse is using Milio's framework to promote healthy eating choices among
members of the community. Which intervention would the nurse most likely
implement?
a. Provide community education about healthy food choices.
,b. Promote legislation to increase taxation on unhealthy food choices.
c. Lobby for health insurance providers to pay for participation in health
promotion programs.
d. Encourage community members to be responsible for making healthy
choices. - CORRECT ANSWER - b. Promote legislation to increase taxation
on unhealthy food choices.
A nurse has a broad, aggregate focus when providing care to clients. Which
statement best describes how this approach will help improve client outcomes?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Ensures that collaborative efforts of many professionals will be used
b. Confirms the individual's responsibility for resolving the health problem
c. Empowers decision-making based on both individual and community goals,
needs, and priorities
d. Enables the nurse to ask for assistance from other community professionals
e. Encourages allocation of time for population-focused preventive efforts
f. Upholds professional nursing standards of care - CORRECT ANSWER - c.
Empowers decision-making based on both individual and community goals,
needs, and priorities.
e. Encourages allocation of time for population-focused preventive efforts
A community health nurse is using the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a basis
for providing client care. Which statement best describes the problems
associated with using the HBM? (Select all that apply.)
a. It ignores the need to reduce health system barriers to action.
b. It is extremely difficult to change the client's belief system.
c. It is the nurse's responsibility to persuade clients to engage in the appropriate
behavior.
d. Clients do not have the knowledge to correctly analyze the seriousness of the
disease or their susceptibility to it.
,e. Clients expect health professionals to take preventive actions for them.
f. The choice and the burden for acting are entirely with the client. -
CORRECT ANSWER - a. It ignores the need to reduce health system barriers
to action.
f. The choice and the burden for acting are entirely with the client.
A nurse is using the critical theoretical perspective in practice. Which statement
best describes how the nurse would respond when a client suggests that the
physician prescribe a widely advertised medication for tension and anxiety?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Can you tell me what is going on in your life right now?
b. Do you know anyone else who is suffering such tension and anxiety?
c. How does your family feel about you having so much tension and anxiety?
d. Would you consider using the generic equivalent of this medication?
e. What led you to believe this medication would be of help to you?
f. What have you tried in the past to relieve tension and anxiety? - CORRECT
ANSWER - a. Can you tell me what is going on in your life right now?
f. What have you tried in the past to relieve tension and anxiety
According to the critical theoretical perspective, which should be held
responsible for many of the illnesses of Americans today? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Advertisers who market sugar- and fat-saturated food products
b. Alcoholic beverage manufacturers, marketers, and sellers
c. Manufacturers of products that increase morbidity and mortality
d. Corporations who modify their emission rates
e. Restaurants that attempt to keep meal costs low
, f. Tobacco manufacturers who sponsor sports events - CORRECT ANSWER -
a. Advertisers who market sugar- and fat-saturated food products
b. Alcoholic beverage manufacturers, marketers, and sellers
c. Manufacturers of products that increase morbidity and mortality
f. Tobacco manufacturers who sponsor sports events
A nurse reviewed information before meeting with the community residents
who were attending a program on healthful living. Which term best describes
the action by the nurse?
a. Disease prevention
b. Health promotion
c. Health improvement
d. Specific protection - CORRECT ANSWER - b. Health promotion
Which statement best summarizes the importance of Lillian Wald's
achievements?
a. She suggested new nursing specialties.
b. She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
c. She gave expert clinical nursing care to her clients.
d. She was appointed a national nursing leader. - CORRECT ANSWER - b.
She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
Which statement best describes the focus of macroscopic therapy "thinking
upstream"?
EXAM 1 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING COURSE
2025/2026 | VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ | PUBLIC HEALTH, COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
& HEALTH PROMOTION STUDY GUIDE | GUARANTEED
SUCCESS
A nurse has accepted a new position in a public health department. Which
characteristic is crucial to the nurse's success?
a. Advanced educational preparation
b. Being knowledgeable about the community's needs
c. Listening and showing respect
d. Caring and empathetic personality - CORRECT ANSWER - c. Listening
and showing respect
A nurse is using a macroscopic approach when providing care. Which would
the nurse most likely demonstrate?
a. Emphasizing behaviors that will help in healing
b. Examining the family's responses to illness
c. Explaining how these actions will help in healing
d. Providing testimony to legislators concerning proposed legislation -
CORRECT ANSWER - d. Providing testimony to legislators concerning
proposed legislation
A nurse is using Milio's framework to promote healthy eating choices among
members of the community. Which intervention would the nurse most likely
implement?
a. Provide community education about healthy food choices.
,b. Promote legislation to increase taxation on unhealthy food choices.
c. Lobby for health insurance providers to pay for participation in health
promotion programs.
d. Encourage community members to be responsible for making healthy
choices. - CORRECT ANSWER - b. Promote legislation to increase taxation
on unhealthy food choices.
A nurse has a broad, aggregate focus when providing care to clients. Which
statement best describes how this approach will help improve client outcomes?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Ensures that collaborative efforts of many professionals will be used
b. Confirms the individual's responsibility for resolving the health problem
c. Empowers decision-making based on both individual and community goals,
needs, and priorities
d. Enables the nurse to ask for assistance from other community professionals
e. Encourages allocation of time for population-focused preventive efforts
f. Upholds professional nursing standards of care - CORRECT ANSWER - c.
Empowers decision-making based on both individual and community goals,
needs, and priorities.
e. Encourages allocation of time for population-focused preventive efforts
A community health nurse is using the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a basis
for providing client care. Which statement best describes the problems
associated with using the HBM? (Select all that apply.)
a. It ignores the need to reduce health system barriers to action.
b. It is extremely difficult to change the client's belief system.
c. It is the nurse's responsibility to persuade clients to engage in the appropriate
behavior.
d. Clients do not have the knowledge to correctly analyze the seriousness of the
disease or their susceptibility to it.
,e. Clients expect health professionals to take preventive actions for them.
f. The choice and the burden for acting are entirely with the client. -
CORRECT ANSWER - a. It ignores the need to reduce health system barriers
to action.
f. The choice and the burden for acting are entirely with the client.
A nurse is using the critical theoretical perspective in practice. Which statement
best describes how the nurse would respond when a client suggests that the
physician prescribe a widely advertised medication for tension and anxiety?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Can you tell me what is going on in your life right now?
b. Do you know anyone else who is suffering such tension and anxiety?
c. How does your family feel about you having so much tension and anxiety?
d. Would you consider using the generic equivalent of this medication?
e. What led you to believe this medication would be of help to you?
f. What have you tried in the past to relieve tension and anxiety? - CORRECT
ANSWER - a. Can you tell me what is going on in your life right now?
f. What have you tried in the past to relieve tension and anxiety
According to the critical theoretical perspective, which should be held
responsible for many of the illnesses of Americans today? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Advertisers who market sugar- and fat-saturated food products
b. Alcoholic beverage manufacturers, marketers, and sellers
c. Manufacturers of products that increase morbidity and mortality
d. Corporations who modify their emission rates
e. Restaurants that attempt to keep meal costs low
, f. Tobacco manufacturers who sponsor sports events - CORRECT ANSWER -
a. Advertisers who market sugar- and fat-saturated food products
b. Alcoholic beverage manufacturers, marketers, and sellers
c. Manufacturers of products that increase morbidity and mortality
f. Tobacco manufacturers who sponsor sports events
A nurse reviewed information before meeting with the community residents
who were attending a program on healthful living. Which term best describes
the action by the nurse?
a. Disease prevention
b. Health promotion
c. Health improvement
d. Specific protection - CORRECT ANSWER - b. Health promotion
Which statement best summarizes the importance of Lillian Wald's
achievements?
a. She suggested new nursing specialties.
b. She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
c. She gave expert clinical nursing care to her clients.
d. She was appointed a national nursing leader. - CORRECT ANSWER - b.
She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
Which statement best describes the focus of macroscopic therapy "thinking
upstream"?
