Community and Population Health Nursing Test Bank
Course Introduction
Community and Population Health Nursing explores the principles and practices of promoting and protecting the health of populations through community-based interventions and care. The course examines the role of the nurse in assessing community needs, planning and implementing evidence-based interventions, and evaluating outcomes at the group and population level. Key topics include epidemiology, social determinants of health, health promotion, disease prevention, public health policy, and cultural competence. Students will develop skills in community assessment, program planning, partnership building, and advocacy to address the health needs of diverse populations in both urban and rural settings.
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Community Health Nursing in Canada 2nd Edition by Marcia
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Chapter 1: Community Health Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following is a requirement for reaching the goal "health for all"?
A)Self-actualization
B)A system for health
C)Elimination of lower- and upper-class categories
D)Total compliance with immunizations and vaccines with all groups
Answer: B
Q2) Which one of the following public health services represents secondary prevention?
A)Administering the influenza vaccine to a community of seniors
B)Initiating an infant car seat safety screening program for parents in low-income housing
C)Starting a rehabilitation clinic for middle-aged adults residing in low-income housing
D)Setting up a support group for teenage mothers of infants with Down syndrome
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada
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Q1) In which area was the first PHNs in Canada employed?
A)Healthy baby clinics
B)Outpost nursing
C)School health programs
D)Tuberculosis education, prevention, and treatment
Answer: D
Q2) What has been the main achievement of the Community Health Nurses Association of Canada ( CHNAC )?
A)Licensed practical nurses ( LPNs ) as well as registered nurses ( RNs ) were allowed to join the association.
B)Nurses who were not PHNs were encouraged to join.
C)National standards of practice were developed.
D)A process was developed to choose the organization's leaders and officers.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following makes public health nursing appealing to many nurses?
A)The autonomy of practice and independence in decision making it affords
B)Its focus on acute care and immediately visible outcomes
C)The backup support of other health care professionals
D)The rapport among the nursing staff
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Community Health Nursing in Canada: Settings,
Functions, and Roles
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Q1) In addition to the common barriers faced by most rural residents, which one of the following is an additional barrier to health care that a Mexican migrant farm worker is more likely to encounter?
A)Absence of culturally appropriate care
B)Availability of specialists
C)Distance of health care facilities from the place of residence
D)Lack of anonymity
Answer: A
Q2) A hospital nurse working in employee health notes that several nurses from one unit are missing from work after having contracted a communicable disease from a client.In this scenario, which one of the following is the host?
A)Each sick nurse
B)The communicable disease
C)The hospital
D)The client
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion
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Q1) Using the Community Mobilization Framework and the three health promotion community mobilization approaches, which element should be addressed first within the framework's social planning component?
A)Shifting power relationships
B)Problem solving at the community level
C)Community participation
D)Community social concerns
Q2) Which report focused on the introduction of the "health field concept" with its four domains?
A)Epp Report
B)Black Report
C)Lalonde Report
D)WHO Commission Report on Social Determinants
Q3) What is the most important feature of the Diffusion of Innovation Theory?
A)It avoids high-cost treatments and suggests cheaper alternatives.
B)It gives members incentives to use only network providers.
C)It shows that individuals adopt innovations at different rates.
D)It advocates working with geographically based communities.
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Chapter 5: Evidence-Informed Practice in Community
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Q1) A nursing administrator who wishes to develop a work environment conducive to the implementation of evidence-informed practice can best achieve it through which of the following actions?
A)Conducting market research to determine customer satisfaction with evidence-informed practice
B)Eliciting opinions from CHNs on how evidence-informed practice will affect workload
C)Increasing access of nursing research holdings, including nursing research journals, in the libraries of health care institutions
D)Sending staff to conferences related to incorporation of evidence-informed practice into practice
Q2) The CHN who best applies evidence-informed practice directly performs which of the following actions to determine the best way to address an outbreak of a new infectious disease?
A)Reviews policies and procedures
B)Reviews outcomes of clinical trials
C)Reviews several nursing textbooks
D)Gets information from the Internet
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Chapter 6: Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice
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Q1) Having heard several debates about the appropriate thing to do for a specific client, a CHN feels a real need for a rule that would help with decision making.Which one of the following criteria could the CHN apply to this rule for his or her decision making?
A)The rule absolutely will not get the CHN in trouble with employer.
B)The rule will gain the support of an expert, such as a spiritual leader.
C)The CHN would recommend the rule to anyone in a similar situation.
D)The supervisor would feel comfortable reporting the rule to the administration.
Q2) In which year was the first code of ethics for nursing written?
A)In 1893, by Lystra Gretter
B)In 1950, by the American Nurses Association ( ANA ) House of Delegates
C)In 1954, by the International Council of Nurses ( ICN )
D)In 2001, by the American Nurses Association ( ANA ) House of Delegates
Q3) Which one of the following is the central, most important concept or action in nursing today?
A)Adapting to the use of computers and other technological advances
B)Caring
C)Distinguishing nursing care from medical care
D)Seeking evidence-based outcomes
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Chapter 7: Diversity
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Q1) The CHN who wishes to develop cultural competence can improve cultural awareness by doing which one of the following?
A)Completing a survey of all the ethnic groups in the CHN's community
B)Considering how the CHN's personal beliefs and decisions are reflective of his or her culture
C)Inviting a family from another cultural background to participate in an event with the CHN
D)Studying the beliefs and traditions of persons coming from other cultures
Q2) A CHN often used to sit with his legs crossed at the knees when collecting a client's history.However, he stopped doing this around his Iranian clients after being told that they were offended because this posture exposed the sole of his foot.In changing his behaviour, which culture-related response did the CHN exhibit?
A)Cultural sensitivity
B)Cultural awareness
C)Cultural knowledge
D)Cultural skill
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Chapter 8: Epidemiological Applications
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Q1) The CHN knows that a regular-sized blood pressure (BP) cuff will provide readings that are falsely high if used to measure BP in an obese person and will provide readings that are falsely low if used to measure BP in a small or very thin person.Which of the following does a regular-sized BP cuff lack when used to measure BP in all individuals?
A)Reliability
B)Sensitivity
C)Specificity
D)Validity
Q2) Which model best explains the reasons why homeless individuals are at increased risk of disease as a result of multiple agent, host, and environmental factors?
A)The web of causality
B)The epidemiological triangle
C)The levels of prevention
D)The Health Promotion Model
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Chapter 9: Working With Community
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Q1) For the community health nurse (CHN) who is involving the community-client as partner, during which phase does data collection take place to determine the community's health and structure?
A)Assessment phase
B)Planning phase
C)Implementation phase
D)Evaluation phase
Q2) Which of the following objectives is most appropriate for developing a community health nursing process?
A)All monitored clients will receive abortion therapy within 3 minutes following recognition of lethal dysrhythmia.
B)Of mothers receiving nutrition counselling, 80% will identify five sources of calcium by the end of class.
C)Ninety-five percent of children will be immunized by the age of 1 year.
D)There will be a 25% reduction in health disparities by 2015.
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Chapter 10: Health Program Planning and Evaluation
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Q1) A committee concludes that a program's objectives were met and that activities received positive ratings from the community, but decides that the program will be discontinued because its cost was triple the amount anticipated.In this scenario, which one of the following program evaluation measures has been identified as the problem?
A)Adequacy
B)Effectiveness
C)Impact
D)Sustainability
Q2) Which one of the following options represents the steps in health program management?
A)Assess, plan, implement, evaluate
B)Identify, initiate, implement
C)Organize, operationalize, mobilize, subsidize
D)Substantiate, negotiate, evaluate
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Chapter 11: Working With Vulnerable Populations
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Q1) Which of the following interventions by the CHN would best serve a vulnerable population?
A)Addressing multiple health concerns, including preventive education, when clients present for treatment of an illness
B)Establishing a system of networks so that clients may be referred to different services such as preventive care, acute illness care, and chronic treatment
C)Providing acute care services that focus on the client's main health concern and setting up appointments at discharge for other concerns
D)Referring clients to specialists to address specific health concerns
Q2) A client reports that the narcotic she took for pain on a regular basis made her feel bad and that when she tried an alternative analgesic, she experienced withdrawal symptoms.What is this client suffering from?
A)Drug abuse
B)Drug addiction
C)Drug dependence
D)Substance abuse
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Chapter 12: Working With Family
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Q1) Which of the following categories is addressed by the developmental assessment aspect of the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM)?
A)Family life-cycle stages
B)Instrumental and expressive functions
C)Activities of everyday living
D)Family strengths
Q2) Which of the following actions by the CHN has the most potential to empower the family of a mother with newly diagnosed breast cancer?
A)Applying for emergency financial assistance on the family's behalf
B)Arranging for community members to assist with child care
C)Recommending that the mother join a cancer support group
D)Teaching the family how to navigate the health care system
Q3) Which one of the following is the most important predictor of health?
A)Biological risk
B)Economic risk
C)Life-event risk
D)Health values
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Chapter 13: Working With Client As Individual: Health and Wellness
Across the Lifespan
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Q1) According to the Comprehensive School Health Framework of health promotion, which one of the following is the correct definition of primordial prevention?
A)Interventions aimed at educating children about health risks
B)Preventing risk factors of health issues from ever occurring
C)Screening activities aimed at improving student health
D)Activities aimed at reducing the health complications associated with disease
Q2) Which one of the following is the nursing specialty that focuses on holistic care of older adult clients?
A)Older adult care
B)Geriatrics
C)Geripsychiatric nursing
D)Gerontological nursing
Q3) Which one of the following examples would constitute secondary prevention by a CHN who wants to promote improved health in obese women?
A)Educating women about the risks of obesity
B)Preventing long-term complications of pre-existing hypertension
C)Modification of women's diet and medications, as indicated
D)Screening using a full glucose tolerance test
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Chapter 14: Working With Groups, Teams and Partners
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Q1) Which one of the following is an example of a nonfunctional group role?
A)Opinion giver
B)Recognition seeker
C)Follower
D)Feasibility tester
Q2) According to the five stages of group development outlined by Tuckman and Jensen (1977), the group is in which stage of group development when it focuses on the group work with a sharing of ideas in a supportive group environment?
A)Forming
B)Storming
C)Norming
D)Performing
Q3) The CHN is preparing to organize a small group with the purpose of sustaining weight loss in obese individuals.What is the ideal number of members for this group?
A)12 members
B)18 members
C)25 members
D)30 members
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Chapter 15: Environmental Health
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of risk communication, a part of the CHN's role in environmental health?
A)Interpreting and applying environmental health principles
B)Responding in scientifically sound and humanely sensitive ways to community concerns
C)Proposing, informing, and monitoring action from agencies, communities, and organization perspectives
D)Detecting potential and actual exposure pathways and outcomes for clients cared for in acute care, chronic care, and healthy communities
Q2) In order to increase the proportion of noninstitutionalized adults who are vaccinated annually against influenza, a nurse practitioner has established a mobile clinic.Which part of the nursing process is fulfilled by delivering immunization services?
A)Goal setting
B)Planning
C)Intervention
D)Evaluation
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Chapter 16: Disaster Management
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Q1) On the second day after a disaster, a disaster relief worker is found to be irritable and having difficulty focusing.He denies having any problem other than a headache.Which of the following actions is the best one for the CHN to take?
A)Dismiss the problem of inability to focus as probably being the result of worry, so that the worker can concentrate on the work at hand and deal with his emotions later.
B)Explain to the relief worker that he is experiencing signs and symptoms of psychological stress and recommend that he take some time off from work to relax.
C)Explain to the worker that his problem arises from multitasking and advise him to focus on one task at a time.
D)Suspect dehydration and encourage the worker to drink more fluids.
Q2) What is the ultimate contribution of the disaster preparedness plan?
A)It reduces injuries.
B)It enhances collaboration among the community partners.
C)It reduces stress and panic behaviours.
D)It reduces involvement.
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Chapter 17: Communicable and Infectious Disease
Prevention and Control
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Q1) A student asks the school nurse how acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) is diagnosed.Which of the following solves is correct?
A)AIDS is diagnosed through the negative results of a screening test called an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ).
B)Antibodies to HIV, which form in about 6 weeks to 3 months following infection with HIV, are detected in the blood.
C)Antibodies to HIV reach peak levels of 200/mL of blood.
D)AIDS is diagnosed through positive ELISA results and clinical signs of AIDS.
Q2) For which of the following reasons should the school nurse recommend that an HIV-infected child not be allowed to attend school?
A)The child develops allergies with sneezing.
B)The school system requires students to receive routine immunizations.
C)There is an outbreak of chicken pox at the school.
D)There is strong objection from parents of well children.
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Chapter 18: Applications in Working With Specific Aggregates
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Q1) Developing a communication strategy to keep community members informed is an example of which of the following components of community capacity building?
A)Skill development
B)Partnership building
C)Documentation of progress
D)Establishing a planning team group
Q2) Which of the following demonstrates the final phase of application of the community health nursing process?
A)Presenting feedback about a 6-week fitness class
B)Determining the needs of the community
C)Developing a 6-week wellness program
D)Supervising a fitness class at the local YWCA or YMCA
Q3) Which of the following demonstrates the second phase of application of the community health nursing process?
A)Assessing the cultural norms
B)Determining the needs of the community
C)Developing a 6-week wellness program
D)Supervising a fitness class at the local YWCA or YMCA
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