COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 5TH
EDITION 2026 TEST BANK COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
◉ Community-oriented nursing. Answer: Aiming to preserve,
protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease to enhance
the quality of life.
◉ Public health nursing. Answer: Focusing on the health care of
communities and populations, aiming to prevent disease and
preserve, promote, restore, and protect health.
◉ Life expectancy increase. Answer: Primarily attributed to public
health policies and programs, including sanitation, clean water
supplies, workplace safety, food and drug safety, immunization,
nutrition, hygiene, and housing improvements.
◉ Plan to decrease premature deaths. Answer: Implementing
interventions to increase the number of individuals with access to
effective health care benefits.
◉ Healthy People 2010 assumption. Answer: The health of
individuals cannot be entirely separate from the health of the larger
, community, focusing on preventing disease and disability and
promoting and protecting the health of the community as a whole.
◉ Public health nurse action. Answer: Working with community
groups to create policies to improve the environment, engaging in
promoting health and improving the environment.
◉ Fulfilling responsibilities of a public health nurse. Answer:
Spending the day attending meetings of various health agencies,
addressing concerns from a broader perspective.
◉ Aggregate. Answer: A collection of people who share one or more
personal or environmental characteristics, such as geography or
special interest.
◉ Community-oriented perspective. Answer: Reflects a focus on the
broader concerns of the community rather than individual concerns.
◉ Assurance. Answer: Includes making sure that essential
community-oriented health services are available in the community.
◉ Advocate. Answer: Engages in policy development and encourages
others to communicate their needs to those with the power to take
action.