BSN Competencies- Exam 1 Practice
Questions All Solved Correct.
A community health nurse is engaging in assurance activities. Which of the following would best explain
these activities?
A)
Gathering and analyzing information that will affect the health of the people to be served
B)
Providing leadership in facilitating community groups toward meeting their needs, often involving
changes in and additions to existing laws
C)
Being involved in activities to make certain that necessary services are being provided to the community
D)
Accessing relevant data that enable identification of strengths, weaknesses, and needs within the
community - Answer C
Feedback:
Assurance activities are those activities that make certain that services are provided and include focusing
on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community, maintaining the ability of
public health agencies and private providers to manage day-to-day operations as well as the capacity to
respond to critical situations and emergencies. Assessment involves gathering and analyzing information
that will affect the health of those to be served and accessing relevant data to enable the nurse to
identify strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Policy development involves providing leadership in
facilitating community groups.
When fulfilling the function of assessment, which of the following would be most important for the
community health nurse to do?
A)
Secure the trust of the clients
B)
Gather appropriate information
,C)
Interact with key community leaders
D)
Use a variety of assessment tools - Answer A
Feedback:
Although securing and maintaining the trust of others is pivotal to all nursing practice, it is even more
critical when working in the community. Trust can afford a nurse access to client populations that are
difficult to engage, to agencies, and to health care providers. As difficult as it may be for the nurse to gain
the trust and respect of the community, if it is ever lost, these attributes can be difficult if not impossible
to regain. Gathering information, interacting with key community leaders, and using a variety of
assessment tools are important, but they can only occur after trust is established.
The community health nurse is engaging in the core function of policy development. With which of the
activities would the nurse most likely be involved?
A)
Monitoring health status to identify community health problems
B)
Empowering communities about important health issues
C)
Linking individuals to needed personal health services
D)
Ensuring a competent health care workforce is available - Answer B
Feedback:
With policy development, the community health nurse would be involved in informing, educating, and
empowering people about health issues. Monitoring health status is associated with the assessment
function. Linking individuals to needed personal health services and ensuring a competent public health
and personal health care workforce are associated with assurance.
, A community health nurse is collaborating with local community leaders to prepare a community
disaster plan. Which function is the nurse fulfilling?
A)
Research
B)
Assurance
C)
Policy development
D)
Assessment - Answer B
Feedback:
Community health nurses perform the assurance function at the community level when they collaborate
with community leaders in the preparation of a community disaster plan. Research is demonstrated by
gaining new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. Policy development would involve
client information, education and empowerment, mobilization of community partnerships, and the
development of plans and policies to support community health efforts. Assessment involves monitoring
health status for community health problems and diagnosing and investigating health problems and
hazards in the community.
A community health nurse has collected data for several months on the birth weights of newborns to
mothers who smoked throughout their pregnancy. This nurse is acting in which role?
A)
Collaborator
B)
Manager
C)
Researcher
D)
Clinician - Answer C
Questions All Solved Correct.
A community health nurse is engaging in assurance activities. Which of the following would best explain
these activities?
A)
Gathering and analyzing information that will affect the health of the people to be served
B)
Providing leadership in facilitating community groups toward meeting their needs, often involving
changes in and additions to existing laws
C)
Being involved in activities to make certain that necessary services are being provided to the community
D)
Accessing relevant data that enable identification of strengths, weaknesses, and needs within the
community - Answer C
Feedback:
Assurance activities are those activities that make certain that services are provided and include focusing
on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community, maintaining the ability of
public health agencies and private providers to manage day-to-day operations as well as the capacity to
respond to critical situations and emergencies. Assessment involves gathering and analyzing information
that will affect the health of those to be served and accessing relevant data to enable the nurse to
identify strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Policy development involves providing leadership in
facilitating community groups.
When fulfilling the function of assessment, which of the following would be most important for the
community health nurse to do?
A)
Secure the trust of the clients
B)
Gather appropriate information
,C)
Interact with key community leaders
D)
Use a variety of assessment tools - Answer A
Feedback:
Although securing and maintaining the trust of others is pivotal to all nursing practice, it is even more
critical when working in the community. Trust can afford a nurse access to client populations that are
difficult to engage, to agencies, and to health care providers. As difficult as it may be for the nurse to gain
the trust and respect of the community, if it is ever lost, these attributes can be difficult if not impossible
to regain. Gathering information, interacting with key community leaders, and using a variety of
assessment tools are important, but they can only occur after trust is established.
The community health nurse is engaging in the core function of policy development. With which of the
activities would the nurse most likely be involved?
A)
Monitoring health status to identify community health problems
B)
Empowering communities about important health issues
C)
Linking individuals to needed personal health services
D)
Ensuring a competent health care workforce is available - Answer B
Feedback:
With policy development, the community health nurse would be involved in informing, educating, and
empowering people about health issues. Monitoring health status is associated with the assessment
function. Linking individuals to needed personal health services and ensuring a competent public health
and personal health care workforce are associated with assurance.
, A community health nurse is collaborating with local community leaders to prepare a community
disaster plan. Which function is the nurse fulfilling?
A)
Research
B)
Assurance
C)
Policy development
D)
Assessment - Answer B
Feedback:
Community health nurses perform the assurance function at the community level when they collaborate
with community leaders in the preparation of a community disaster plan. Research is demonstrated by
gaining new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. Policy development would involve
client information, education and empowerment, mobilization of community partnerships, and the
development of plans and policies to support community health efforts. Assessment involves monitoring
health status for community health problems and diagnosing and investigating health problems and
hazards in the community.
A community health nurse has collected data for several months on the birth weights of newborns to
mothers who smoked throughout their pregnancy. This nurse is acting in which role?
A)
Collaborator
B)
Manager
C)
Researcher
D)
Clinician - Answer C
