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PHILIPPINE NLE COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING BOARD EXAM
NEWEST VERSION -2025/2026- 100+ Q AND ANS MOST
POPULAR EXAM GUARANTEED SUCCESS
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at least
how many employees?
A. 21
B. 101
C. 201
D. 301
Answer: (B) 101Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people.
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the community.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified.
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing
needs and problems. Community-based practice means providing care to people
in their own natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is
performing which of her roles?
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A. Health care provider
B. Health educator
C. Health care coordinator
D. Environmental manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers
by improving the worker's environment through appropriately designed furniture,
for example.
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis Population-focused nursing care means
providing care based on the greater need of the majority of the population. The
greater need is identified through community diagnosis.
4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from number of
employees, what other factor must be considered in determining the occupational
health privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
D. Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities Based on R.A.
1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there are 30 to 100
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employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the nearest health
center.
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall provide the
occupational health needs of the factory workers?
A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
B. Physician employed by the factory
C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality You're right! This
question is based on R.A.1054.
8. "Public health services are given free of charge." Is this statement true or false?
A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide basic
services.
B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service required.
D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the government
concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid services,
though taxation.
9. According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
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Answer: (A) For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity
According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize their birth
rights of health and longevity.
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach the
average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to determine
attainment of longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop's index
D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop's index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or
older. Its inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died
younger than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the
hospital.
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health
nursing service.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom
are well individuals who have greater need for preventive rather than curative
services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing is
based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birth rights
PHILIPPINE NLE COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING BOARD EXAM
NEWEST VERSION -2025/2026- 100+ Q AND ANS MOST
POPULAR EXAM GUARANTEED SUCCESS
5. A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at least
how many employees?
A. 21
B. 101
C. 201
D. 301
Answer: (B) 101Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
2. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
A. The service is provided in the natural environment of people.
B. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.
C. The services are based on the available resources within the community.
D. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified.
Answer: (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing
needs and problems. Community-based practice means providing care to people
in their own natural environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.
6. When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is
performing which of her roles?
, 2
A. Health care provider
B. Health educator
C. Health care coordinator
D. Environmental manager
Answer: (D) Environmental manager Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers
by improving the worker's environment through appropriately designed furniture,
for example.
3. Population-focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
D. Epidemiologic process
Answer: (C) Community diagnosis Population-focused nursing care means
providing care based on the greater need of the majority of the population. The
greater need is identified through community diagnosis.
4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from number of
employees, what other factor must be considered in determining the occupational
health privileges to which the workers will be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, commercial, industrial
B. Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
C. Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
D. Sex and age composition of employees
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities Based on R.A.
1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there are 30 to 100
, 3
employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the nearest health
center.
7. A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall provide the
occupational health needs of the factory workers?
A. Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
B. Physician employed by the factory
C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the RHU of their municipality
Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the RHU of their municipality You're right! This
question is based on R.A.1054.
8. "Public health services are given free of charge." Is this statement true or false?
A. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide basic
services.
B. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
C. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service required.
D. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the government
concerned.
Answer: (B) The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
Community health services, including public health services, are pre-paid services,
though taxation.
9. According to C.E. Winslow, which of the following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention of disease
C. For people to have access to basic health services
D. For people to be organized in their health efforts
, 4
Answer: (A) For people to attain their birth rights of health and longevity
According to Winslow, all public health efforts are for people to realize their birth
rights of health and longevity.
10. We say that a Filipino has attained longevity when he is able to reach the
average lifespan of Filipinos. What other statistic may be used to determine
attainment of longevity?
A. Age-specific mortality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop's index
D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (C) Swaroop's index is the percentage of the deaths aged 50 years or
older. Its inverse represents the percentage of untimely deaths (those who died
younger than 50 years).
11. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
A. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the
hospital.
B. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area.
C. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health
nursing service.
D. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
Answer: (D) Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
The catchment area in PHN consists of a residential community, many of whom
are well individuals who have greater need for preventive rather than curative
services.
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the philosophy of public health nursing is
based on which of the following?
A. Health and longevity as birth rights
