COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING EXAM 1 NURSING
COURSE 2025/2026 | VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ |
PUBLIC HEALTH, EPIDEMIOLOGY & COMMUNITY CARE
STUDY GUIDE | GUARANTEED SUCCESS
Secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER - Early detection and
intervention (screenings for STDs, cancer, hypertension). Implemented after
problem has begun but before S&S appear. Targets risk factors (i.e. early
mammograms with familial history of breast cancer)
Tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER - Disease process is in full effect,
prevention focuses on managing this disease and preventing deterioration as
much as possible. (i.e. teaching insulin admin at home for diabetic patients,
physical therapy, support groups for grieving parents)
What is public health nursing? * - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Synthesis of
public health and nursing practice; The practice of promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public
sciences; Application of nursing process in caring for individuals where they
live, work or got to school or as they move through the health care system
b. Prevention, Promotion, Protection
c. Collaborative- information gathering through multiple resources; requires
significant communication skill set
d. Practice is based on research and theory; More than just individuals, can
apply nursing process to entire communities
Nightingale's role in public health - CORRECT ANSWER - public health
principles, statistics, gathered large amounts of data
,Endemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Always present
Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Periodic flare-ups
Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Disease involves large proportion of the
population
Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According to
the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2015), community health
nurses must align themselves with public health programs that promote and
preserve the health of populations by influencing
a. socioeconomic issues.
b. psychosocial issues.
c. sociocultural issues.
d. developmental issues. - CORRECT ANSWER - c. sociocultural issues
Rationale: The Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association (2015)
promotes social reform by focusing on health policy and legislation to
positively affect accessibility, quality, and cost of health care. Community
health nurses must align themselves with public health programs that promote
and preserve the health of populations by influencing sociocultural issues, such
as human rights, homelessness, violence, and stigma of illness. Directing care
toward socioeconomic issues, psychosocial issues, or developmental issues
focuses on individuals, families, or groups, which in turn contributes to the
health of the total population.
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are
responsible for what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 50%
,d. 70% - CORRECT ANSWER - c. 50%
Rationale: According to Cassidy, Trujillo, and Orleans (2015), 50% of all
premature deaths in the United States are a result of individual behaviors and
environmental factors. According to Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, and Gerberding
(2004), tobacco use leads the list of "actual causes of death" at almost 20% of
annual deaths in the United States.
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in
addressing health and disease in the immigrant community by
a. Supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions
of immigrant families.
b. administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their families.
c. teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in the home.
d. obtaining and administering medications to the immigrants and their family
members. - CORRECT ANSWER - A. Supporting political activities to
improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant families.
2) A foodborne illness has struck residents of the reservation twice in the past
year during large festivals. The public health nurse understands that secondary
prevention would be to:
A) Educate the people preparing the food about safe food preparation practices
B) Ensure the cooks properly store and handle food at the next festival.
C) Monitor the quality of food being served at the festivals.
D) Promote the health of the residents affected by the outbreak - CORRECT
ANSWER - C. Monitor the quality of food being served at the festivals.
, Definition of health - CORRECT ANSWER - State of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being; Remember, the community you are working with
may not define health in the same way that you define health
Factors that define a community - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Geographic
boundary
2. common interests
3. people who interact with each other
4. social units
5. civic parameters
6. Common beliefs/goals
What is detrimental to health? - CORRECT ANSWER - * Lack of health care
access
* Economic conditions
* Social and environmental and cultural practices
* Disease
* Death
* Disability
COURSE 2025/2026 | VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ |
PUBLIC HEALTH, EPIDEMIOLOGY & COMMUNITY CARE
STUDY GUIDE | GUARANTEED SUCCESS
Secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER - Early detection and
intervention (screenings for STDs, cancer, hypertension). Implemented after
problem has begun but before S&S appear. Targets risk factors (i.e. early
mammograms with familial history of breast cancer)
Tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER - Disease process is in full effect,
prevention focuses on managing this disease and preventing deterioration as
much as possible. (i.e. teaching insulin admin at home for diabetic patients,
physical therapy, support groups for grieving parents)
What is public health nursing? * - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Synthesis of
public health and nursing practice; The practice of promoting and protecting the
health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public
sciences; Application of nursing process in caring for individuals where they
live, work or got to school or as they move through the health care system
b. Prevention, Promotion, Protection
c. Collaborative- information gathering through multiple resources; requires
significant communication skill set
d. Practice is based on research and theory; More than just individuals, can
apply nursing process to entire communities
Nightingale's role in public health - CORRECT ANSWER - public health
principles, statistics, gathered large amounts of data
,Endemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Always present
Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Periodic flare-ups
Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER - Disease involves large proportion of the
population
Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According to
the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2015), community health
nurses must align themselves with public health programs that promote and
preserve the health of populations by influencing
a. socioeconomic issues.
b. psychosocial issues.
c. sociocultural issues.
d. developmental issues. - CORRECT ANSWER - c. sociocultural issues
Rationale: The Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association (2015)
promotes social reform by focusing on health policy and legislation to
positively affect accessibility, quality, and cost of health care. Community
health nurses must align themselves with public health programs that promote
and preserve the health of populations by influencing sociocultural issues, such
as human rights, homelessness, violence, and stigma of illness. Directing care
toward socioeconomic issues, psychosocial issues, or developmental issues
focuses on individuals, families, or groups, which in turn contributes to the
health of the total population.
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are
responsible for what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 50%
,d. 70% - CORRECT ANSWER - c. 50%
Rationale: According to Cassidy, Trujillo, and Orleans (2015), 50% of all
premature deaths in the United States are a result of individual behaviors and
environmental factors. According to Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, and Gerberding
(2004), tobacco use leads the list of "actual causes of death" at almost 20% of
annual deaths in the United States.
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in
addressing health and disease in the immigrant community by
a. Supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions
of immigrant families.
b. administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their families.
c. teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in the home.
d. obtaining and administering medications to the immigrants and their family
members. - CORRECT ANSWER - A. Supporting political activities to
improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant families.
2) A foodborne illness has struck residents of the reservation twice in the past
year during large festivals. The public health nurse understands that secondary
prevention would be to:
A) Educate the people preparing the food about safe food preparation practices
B) Ensure the cooks properly store and handle food at the next festival.
C) Monitor the quality of food being served at the festivals.
D) Promote the health of the residents affected by the outbreak - CORRECT
ANSWER - C. Monitor the quality of food being served at the festivals.
, Definition of health - CORRECT ANSWER - State of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being; Remember, the community you are working with
may not define health in the same way that you define health
Factors that define a community - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Geographic
boundary
2. common interests
3. people who interact with each other
4. social units
5. civic parameters
6. Common beliefs/goals
What is detrimental to health? - CORRECT ANSWER - * Lack of health care
access
* Economic conditions
* Social and environmental and cultural practices
* Disease
* Death
* Disability
