Foundations for Population Health in Community Public Health Nursing 5th Edition Stanhope Test Bank
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Chapter 29: The Faith Community Nurse
Stanhope: Foundations of Population Health for Community/Public Health Nursing,
5th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following best describes the primary difference between parish nursing and all
other nursing positions?
a. Affiliation with a church or congregation
b. Incorporation of spiritual aspects into nursing care
c. Provision of holistic nursing care
d. Residence within the community of service
ANS: A
In 1998 the American Nurses Association accepted parish nursing as the most recognized
term for the practice of nurses working with congregations or faith communities. All nurses
may choose to incorporate spiritual aspects into holistic nursing care.
2. To help congregation members better meet their nutritional needs, the parish nurse organized
members to participate in activities that focused on fellowship while providing healthy meals
to homebound members and serving “healthy heart” church suppers. Which of the following
activities is being completed?
a. Holistic care
b. Health ministries
c. Partnerships
d. Pastoral care practices N R I G B.C M
U S N T O
ANS: B
Health ministries are those activities and programs in faith communities organized around
health and healing to promote wholeness in health across the life span. These services include
activities such as visiting the homebound, providing meals for families in crisis or when
returning home after hospitalization, organizing prayer circles, serving “healthy heart” church
suppers, and holding regular grief support groups. Holistic care is concerned with the
relationship of body, mind, and spirit in a constantly changing envrionment. Providing a
healthy meal does not address these multiple components. Partnerships may be among
individuals, groups, and health care professionals within the congregation. It may involve
partnerships to provide these meals; however, the focus is on the overall health ministry
provided by this activity, not the partnerships which may be necessary to develop the
program. Pastoral care practices invloves stresing the spiritual dimension of nursing, lending
support duirng times of joy and sorrow, guiding the person through health and illness
throughout life, and helping identify the spiritual strengths that assist in coping with particular
events. These practices related to pastoral care are not provided through this meal.
3. Which of the following best describes why it is helpful to be a member of a faith community?
a. Belief and traditions help with coping.
b. Members can ask others in the group for help.
c. It is a social outlet.
d. Members are able to get others to contribute to the causes they support.
ANS: A
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Persons who encounter assaults with physical and emotional illness and brokenness and who
are able to call upon their faith beliefs and religious traditions are able to increase coping
skills and realize spiritual growth even during adversity. Family communities do allow for a
social outlet, asking others for help, and getting others to contribute to causes the support.
However, the common connect of faith and traditions is what connects the members together
and allows them to accomplish these other things.
4. Which of the following principles is central to the role of the parish nurse?
a. Advanced nursing practice education and skills
b. Faith consistent with the community and its leadership
c. Spiritual dimension of care
d. Willingness to serve anyone in need
ANS: C
The spiritual dimension of health care is central to the practice of parish nursing. Advanced
nursing practice education and skills, although helpful, is not necessary for a nurse to become
a parish nurse. Having a faith that is consistent with those who the nurse is working with is
helpful, but not essential to the role of the parish nurse. Willingness to serve others is not
specific to the role of the parish nurse, but rather a role that all nurses should embrace.
5. A young woman had been away from home several years before she returned home sick and
disheartened. Her mother called a nurse to help. Which of the following behaviors would
suggest that the caregiver who arrived was a parish nurse?
a. Advanced nursing practice education and skills
b. Compassionate, skilled, dedicated touch
c. Offered a prayer with the daughter and mother
d. Willingness to do whateverN was
R I needed by mother
G B.C M or daughter
U S N T O
ANS: C
The spiritual dimension of health care is central to the practice of parish nursing. Both nursing
functions and pastoral care functions are performed by parish nurses, whose visits often
involve prayer and reference to scripture, symbols, sacraments, and liturgy of the faith
community. Advanced nursing practice is not required for a parish nurse, so this would not
suggest that the nurse was a parish nurse. All nurses should demonstrate compassionate,
skilled, and dedicated touch; thus, this would not be specific to the role of the parish nurse.
Nurses should be willing to complete tasks that are within the scope of their practice, and this
does not specifically describe what that scope of practice would be for a parish nurse.
6. Which of the following statements best describes how clients and parish nurses typically
perceive spiritual health?
a. It exists at the point that cure is attained.
b. It has a tangential relation to well-being.
c. It is part of an ongoing dynamic process.
d. It is usually unchanging across the life span.
ANS: C
Health, spiritual health, and healing are considered parts of an ongoing, dynamic process.
Because spiritual health is central to well-being, influences are evident in the total individual
and noted in a healthy congregation. Well-being and illness may occur simultaneously;
spiritual healing or well-being can exist in the absence of cure. Spiritual health and its
definition is an ongoing and dynamic process; thus, it changes across the lifespan.
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Chapter 29: The Faith Community Nurse
Stanhope: Foundations of Population Health for Community/Public Health Nursing,
5th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following best describes the primary difference between parish nursing and all
other nursing positions?
a. Affiliation with a church or congregation
b. Incorporation of spiritual aspects into nursing care
c. Provision of holistic nursing care
d. Residence within the community of service
ANS: A
In 1998 the American Nurses Association accepted parish nursing as the most recognized
term for the practice of nurses working with congregations or faith communities. All nurses
may choose to incorporate spiritual aspects into holistic nursing care.
2. To help congregation members better meet their nutritional needs, the parish nurse organized
members to participate in activities that focused on fellowship while providing healthy meals
to homebound members and serving “healthy heart” church suppers. Which of the following
activities is being completed?
a. Holistic care
b. Health ministries
c. Partnerships
d. Pastoral care practices N R I G B.C M
U S N T O
ANS: B
Health ministries are those activities and programs in faith communities organized around
health and healing to promote wholeness in health across the life span. These services include
activities such as visiting the homebound, providing meals for families in crisis or when
returning home after hospitalization, organizing prayer circles, serving “healthy heart” church
suppers, and holding regular grief support groups. Holistic care is concerned with the
relationship of body, mind, and spirit in a constantly changing envrionment. Providing a
healthy meal does not address these multiple components. Partnerships may be among
individuals, groups, and health care professionals within the congregation. It may involve
partnerships to provide these meals; however, the focus is on the overall health ministry
provided by this activity, not the partnerships which may be necessary to develop the
program. Pastoral care practices invloves stresing the spiritual dimension of nursing, lending
support duirng times of joy and sorrow, guiding the person through health and illness
throughout life, and helping identify the spiritual strengths that assist in coping with particular
events. These practices related to pastoral care are not provided through this meal.
3. Which of the following best describes why it is helpful to be a member of a faith community?
a. Belief and traditions help with coping.
b. Members can ask others in the group for help.
c. It is a social outlet.
d. Members are able to get others to contribute to the causes they support.
ANS: A
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Persons who encounter assaults with physical and emotional illness and brokenness and who
are able to call upon their faith beliefs and religious traditions are able to increase coping
skills and realize spiritual growth even during adversity. Family communities do allow for a
social outlet, asking others for help, and getting others to contribute to causes the support.
However, the common connect of faith and traditions is what connects the members together
and allows them to accomplish these other things.
4. Which of the following principles is central to the role of the parish nurse?
a. Advanced nursing practice education and skills
b. Faith consistent with the community and its leadership
c. Spiritual dimension of care
d. Willingness to serve anyone in need
ANS: C
The spiritual dimension of health care is central to the practice of parish nursing. Advanced
nursing practice education and skills, although helpful, is not necessary for a nurse to become
a parish nurse. Having a faith that is consistent with those who the nurse is working with is
helpful, but not essential to the role of the parish nurse. Willingness to serve others is not
specific to the role of the parish nurse, but rather a role that all nurses should embrace.
5. A young woman had been away from home several years before she returned home sick and
disheartened. Her mother called a nurse to help. Which of the following behaviors would
suggest that the caregiver who arrived was a parish nurse?
a. Advanced nursing practice education and skills
b. Compassionate, skilled, dedicated touch
c. Offered a prayer with the daughter and mother
d. Willingness to do whateverN was
R I needed by mother
G B.C M or daughter
U S N T O
ANS: C
The spiritual dimension of health care is central to the practice of parish nursing. Both nursing
functions and pastoral care functions are performed by parish nurses, whose visits often
involve prayer and reference to scripture, symbols, sacraments, and liturgy of the faith
community. Advanced nursing practice is not required for a parish nurse, so this would not
suggest that the nurse was a parish nurse. All nurses should demonstrate compassionate,
skilled, and dedicated touch; thus, this would not be specific to the role of the parish nurse.
Nurses should be willing to complete tasks that are within the scope of their practice, and this
does not specifically describe what that scope of practice would be for a parish nurse.
6. Which of the following statements best describes how clients and parish nurses typically
perceive spiritual health?
a. It exists at the point that cure is attained.
b. It has a tangential relation to well-being.
c. It is part of an ongoing dynamic process.
d. It is usually unchanging across the life span.
ANS: C
Health, spiritual health, and healing are considered parts of an ongoing, dynamic process.
Because spiritual health is central to well-being, influences are evident in the total individual
and noted in a healthy congregation. Well-being and illness may occur simultaneously;
spiritual healing or well-being can exist in the absence of cure. Spiritual health and its
definition is an ongoing and dynamic process; thus, it changes across the lifespan.
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