Community Health Nursing
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Course Introduction
Community Health Nursing focuses on the principles and practices of promoting and protecting the health of populations through the application of nursing, public health, and social science concepts. The course explores strategies for assessing community health needs, planning and implementing health promotion and disease prevention programs, and evaluating outcomes at the community level. Emphasis is placed on the nurses role in promoting wellness, managing chronic and infectious diseases, reducing health disparities, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. Students will learn to address cultural, ethical, and environmental factors impacting community health, and will develop skills in leadership, advocacy, and resource management to improve overall health outcomes in diverse populations.
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Community Public Health Nursing Promoting the Health of Populations 6th Edition by Nies
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Chapter 1: Health: A Community View
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Q1) Which action would probably result in the largest change in health care outcomes for Americans?
A) Establish large numbers of scholarships for education of nurses, physicians, and other health care providers
B) Fund a one-time extremely large stimulus to allow all health care providers and agencies to create and integrate computer network systems for client health care records
C) Increase funding for hospitals and medical centers to expand their neighborhood clinics
D) Redirect a large portion of federal funding from acute care to health promotion activities
Answer: D
Q2) How does community health nursing define community?
A) A group of persons living within specific geographic boundaries
B) A group of persons who share a common identity and environment
C) A group of persons who work together to meet common goals
D) Persons who form a group to resolve a common concern
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context
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Q1) How did Edwin Chadwick's ideas help decrease disease in the nineteenth century?
A) The minimum wage was increased leading to improved quality of life.
B) Parish workhouses where poverty-level children labored for their room and board were closed.
C) Social reform legislation resulted in changes such as sidewalks.
D) The new emphasis on individual responsibility encouraged people to act to protect their own health.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following best describes the overall result of Abraham Flexner's report?
A) All medical schools reorganized into the German model.
B) Citizens were encouraged to become more involved in medical education.
C) Folk healers again became more widely used than physicians.
D) Funding was withdrawn from weak medical schools.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and
Population-Focused Nursing Practice
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Q1) Which of the following is most closely associated with morbidity and mortality outcomes?
A) Number of physicians per capita
B) Insurance status
C) Crime rate
D) Personality traits
Answer: B
Q2) A client did not attend the clinic for required follow-up care after his extensive surgery. Which of the following would be the most appropriate conclusion for the nurse to make?
A) The client is noncompliant.
B) The client is suffering from self-neglect.
C) The health care system is not meeting the client's perceived needs.
D) The health care system is not accessible for the client.
E) The nurse has not motivated the client appropriately.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
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Q1) Which of the following is the cause of most preventable deaths in the United States?
A) Alcohol
B) Drug addictions
C) Sexually transmitted diseases
D) Tobacco
Q2) The nurse working with a client to change behavior to maximize health asked the client to bring his family to the next visit. Which of the following best describes why the nurse wants the family to come with the client?
A) To analyze the family's beliefs about health
B) To determine the family's support of the client
C) To establish the family's communication patterns
D) To evaluate the family's approval of the proposed changes
Q3) A 50-year-old woman comes to the clinic for her first mammogram. Which of the following best describes the action of this client?
A) Disease prevention
B) Health improvement
C) Health protection
D) Primary health promotion
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Chapter 5: Epidemiology
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Q1) An epidemiologist is gathering data to determine which factors may lead to disease. Which of the following data will be gathered? (Select all that apply.)
A) Demographic characteristics
B) Disease characteristics
C) Geographic data
D) Health protection measures taken
E) Length of the disease process
F) When disease struck the area
Q2) A client has developed pellagra because of a lack of certain B vitamins. Which of the following best describes the classification of the nutritional deficiency?
A) Relative risk factor
B) Agent factor
C) Environment factor
D) Host factor
Q3) Which of the following best describes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
A) It provided excellence in research design.
B) It used an extensive subject base leading to confirmed conclusions.
C) It developed information about the causes and treatment of syphilis.
D) It implemented unethical and racist treatment of uninformed subjects.
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Chapter 6: Community Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following best describes how care can be appropriately given in a community?
A) Provide individualized care to unique individuals as much as resources allow.
B) Consider the community itself as the "client."
C) Administer care according to the priorities of the local health department.
D) Prioritize care for the sickest populations first.
Q2) A nurse begins to collect information about a particular health problem from community residents. Which of the following potential problems would most likely arise?
A) Residents might become suspicious about why the nurse needs this information.
B) Residents might believe the nurse is becoming intrusive in their personal lives.
C) Residents might wonder why they are being asked about the problem when previous surveys may also have asked about the same problem.
D) Residents might begin to expect service to be given to address the problem.
Q3) Which of the following best describes shoe leather epidemiology?
A) Implementing the wheel model of epidemiology
B) Engaging in extensive truth seeking like a detective in the community
C) Traveling throughout the community to absorb an overall impression of it
D) Facilitating sharing of the community's history by community leaders
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Chapter 7: Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
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Q1) Which of the following is the most important phase of the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership (MAPP) model?
A) Conduct assessments identifying strengths and current health status
B) Evaluate current local health care systems and forces for change
C) Guide the community toward long-range visioning
D) Mobilize the community to become involved
Q2) A nurse found that several professionals resented time spent interacting with and teaching clients. Which of the following describes the most likely underlying motivation for resisting client involvement?
A) Believing that people could change their lives if they really wanted to do so.
B) Empowering others shifts power from the experts to the community.
C) It is more efficient to plan appropriate care without listening to client ideas.
D) Longtime experience with community members has led to disillusionment.
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Chapter 8: Community Health Education
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the goal of participatory action research?
A) Analytical epidemiological findings
B) Careful descriptive research studies
C) Experimental studies using both experimental and control groups
D) Social change resulting from stakeholders' strategies
Q2) A nurse is planning a health education program in the community. Which of the following considerations must be made by the nurse?
A) The listed priorities of Healthy People 2020
B) The skills and abilities of the nurse educator
C) The sociopolitical cultural context of the community's environment
D) What learning materials have already been created and are available for use
Q3) A nurse is helping clients to change their behavior. Which of the following would be most effective?
A) Counseling through the Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange approach
B) Encouraging them to interact with others who also need to change their behavior
C) Showing them how the inappropriate behavior is hurting their friends and family
D) Using subtle rewards when small steps are taken toward the appropriate behavior
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Chapter 9: Case Management
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the goals of nursing case management regardless of setting? (Select all that apply.)
A) Ensure that all clients have a case manager
B) Contain costs and control use of services
C) Decrease duplication and fragmentation
D) Enhance client's quality of life
E) Focus on avoiding hospitalization or institutionalization
F) Maintain routine communication channels
Q2) A very skilled baccalaureate-prepared clinical nurse was asked to assume a case manager role. Which of the following will be most difficult for the nurse new to this role?
A) Having the ability to be a leader and work autonomously
B) Obtaining knowledge of community resources
C) Gaining knowledge of reimbursement structures and financial strategies
D) Getting practice at evaluating patient outcomes
Q3) Which of the following has the largest influence on the case manager's role?
A) Criteria of the program for accepting clients
B) Location of the program
C) Population served by the program
D) The specific program that employs the case manager
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Chapter 10: Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following best describes who has the authority to act in every area except those specifically mentioned in the Constitution?
A) Any individual citizen
B) Federal government
C) Local government
D) State government
Q2) A nurse would like to influence an internal private health policy. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
A) Build or join a private entrepreneurial practice to provide lower cost services to underserved groups
B) Participate in public discussions regarding quality and managed care
C) Support nursing research done that demonstrates positive clinical and economic outcomes
D) Write managed care organizations to request that nurses receive reimbursement for health services to clients
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Chapter 11: The Health Care System
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Q1) Which of the following functions are responsibilities of the states? (Select all that apply.)
A) Delegating power to localities and holding them accountable for results
B) Creating managed health organizations to decrease state health care costs
C) Establishing and managing local health departments
D) Licensure of professional health care providers
E) Overseeing all insurance programs
F) Providing access to necessary health services
Q2) Which of the following best describes the primary conclusion of the report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System?
A) Hospital staffing must be improved to focus on safety rather than cost containment.
B) Quality of care and medical error are not easily defined.
C) Patients must recognize that care providers are human and errors will occasionally be made.
D) System failures are resulting in an incredible amount of harm from medical errors.
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Chapter 12: Economics of Health Care
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Q1) Which of the following best describes how the federal government determines which projects are awarded special funding for health care?
A) Those that are consistent with societal priorities, such as 2020 Health Objectives
B) Those that are supported by legislators
C) Those that are written by health care organizations that have special needs
D) Those that are consistent with the state's long-term health goals
Q2) Which of the following best describes a flaw of indemnity plans?
A) Blue Cross and Blue Shield had a great idea, but they went bankrupt.
B) Cost sharing was expected of Blue Cross and Blue Shield enrollees.
C) Enrollees could not choose their provider or manage their own care.
D) Plans lacked any incentives to contain costs.
Q3) Which of the following statements best describes what happened to health care providers during the Great Depression?
A) The amount of charity care greatly increased.
B) Both hospitals and physicians went bankrupt.
C) Government funding was legislated to assist those in need.
D) Public health greatly expanded to care for those in need.
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Chapter 13: Cultural Diversity and Community Health
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Q1) A nurse is called by a friend who complains of symptoms of a cold. Which of the following responses would be the most appropriate by the nurse?
A) Ask the friend what she usually does for a cold and suggest that be done
B) Tell her to go to the urgent care center for assistance
C) Suggest that she make an appointment to see her health care provider
D) Point out to her that nurses are unable to treat patients
Q2) A nurse felt very good about an Asian man who had responded positively to the instructions given to him. Later, the nurse heard him tell his wife that there was no way he could implement the suggestions. Which of the following best describes the problem that the client is experiencing?
A) Polite response may not equal agreement.
B) Men do not take instruction from women.
C) His culture may value harmonious relationships over expressing disagreement.
D) The nurse told him what to do but did not ask if he could do it.
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Chapter 14: Environmental Health
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Q1) Which of the following describe a problem with the U.S. water quality today? (Select all that apply.)
A) Companies demand high reimbursement when asked to stop dumping heavy metals into local water sources.
B) Many aquifers are contaminated with pesticides and fertilizers.
C) More than 45 million Americans drink untreated water.
D) Sediment from construction, agriculture, and deforestation is often present.
E) Underground water, if contaminated, cannot be cleansed.
F) Water-related diseases (cholera, typhoid, dysentery) frequently occur.
Q2) Which of the following actions should be taken by a small community group who hopes to accomplish goals against a large powerful corporation?
A) Appeal to the chief executive officer's conscience
B) Ask the corporation's employees to encourage change
C) Begin legal action to force the corporation to change
D) Form coalitions with other groups that have similar goals
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Chapter 15: Health in the Global Community
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) differs from its many peer agencies?
A) It focuses primarily on prevention.
B) It is a uniquely American approach to problem resolution.
C) It responds to health emergencies.
D) It uses years of experience as the basis for its actions.
Q2) Which of the following aspects of a developed country would be most worthwhile to be copied by a developing country?
A) Education of health care professions
B) Health care reform policies to improve health care delivery
C) Advanced technology with its miracle interventions and cures
D) Our approach to rationing health care
Q3) Which of the following best explains why many people decide to move to large urban areas?
A) To be eligible for social aid
B) To be with friends
C) To join family who are already there
D) To seek employment
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Chapter 16: Child and Adolescent Health
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Q1) A mother explained that she had just dropped her 3-year-old off at her own mother's so she could come in for the required examination for her new job. She excitedly shared her hopes that she would be able to afford a used car rather than having to ride a bus all the time. Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "I'm sure the exam won't show any problems. I'm so excited for you."
B) "Don't forget to buy a child's seat when you get your car."
C) "How do you think your child will adapt to you being at work all day?"
D) "It's fantastic that you have a new job in this rough economy. Will your mother be able to continue to babysit?"
Q2) A nurse is trying to determine who would be the most appropriate person to make a health care decision for an adolescent, the adolescent or the parent. Which of the following considerations will the nurse need to make?
A) The need for cultural competence
B) The need for access to care
C) The need for client autonomy
D) The need for client privacy and confidentiality
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Chapter 17: Womens Health
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Q1) Which of the following is the leading cause of death for women in their first trimester?
A) Anesthesia
B) Ectopic pregnancy
C) Hemorrhage
D) Pulmonary embolism
Q2) Which of the following best explains how marriage customs have remained unchanged over the last couple decades?
A) Lesbian and homosexual adults are adopting children.
B) Women are usually responsible for the children following a divorce.
C) Single adults are adopting children.
D) Women are trying to avoid spinsterhood.
E) Women seek to marry at a young age.
Q3) Which of the following groups of persons is most likely to be able to access health care?
A) Adults who work in large corporations
B) Many employed women
C) Older women on fixed incomes
D) Young adults, aged 16 to 24 years
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Chapter 18: Mens Health
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Q1) Which of the following statements best explains why men are sicker on hospital admission than women?
A) Men do not have access to care.
B) Men do not seek treatment until they are very ill.
C) Men have chronic conditions more than women.
D) Men have more acute illnesses than women.
Q2) Which of the following is a biological explanation for gender differences in health status?
A) Influence of hormones
B) Different treatment by parents
C) Random differences in genetic inheritance
D) Social expectations of appropriate gender behavior
Q3) A male client reports that he is unable to change his health behaviors and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Which of the following is the most likely reason for his difficulty?
A) Lack of financial resources
B) Lack of transportation
C) Lack of programs
D) Lack of motivation
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Chapter 19: Senior Health
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Q1) A male nurse is enjoying a very hot summer day at the zoo when he notices a family approaching. An elderly member of the family is moving very slowly and being scolded by another adult, saying "You are not sick. Let's keep moving." The nurse touches the elderly adult who has a flushed face and notices clammy and moist skin. What should the nurse say to the adult?
A) "I'm a nurse, and your family member needs to go to the emergency department right now."
B) "I'm a nurse, and your family member has heat stroke. I'm calling 911."
C) "Take your family member to the air-conditioned restaurant, and have him drink a cold soda immediately."
D) "Take your family member to the air-conditioned restaurant, and let your family rest for a while."
Q2) A nurse completed the health assessment but needed to use the elderly woman's bathroom. The nurse noticed perineal pads under the sink. Which of the following questions would the nurse most likely ask the woman?
A) "Can you tell me why you need to have perineal pads?"
B) "Do you know how to do Kegel exercises to help control your urine?"
C) "Does another woman live with you or visit often?"
D) "Why do you have perineal pads? Are you bleeding down there?"
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Chapter 20: Family Health
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Q1) Which of the following best describe why it is crucial that nurses who focus on the care of individual patients also be able to work with families? (Select all that apply.)
A) Anytime a person is ill, his or her whole family is affected.
B) By understanding the family, understanding of the individual is improved.
C) Families often are very demanding if they feel their loved one isn't receiving the best care possible.
D) Individuals depend on their families for care and support.
E) Most important decisions are made by families as a whole, not individuals.
F) Risks caused by genetics or environment affect the whole family, not just the individual.
Q2) A family came in to discuss a problem with one of their children. Which of the following family behaviors would be concerning to the nurse?
A) Each family member made supportive comments about each other.
B) Every Sunday the family attends religious services together.
C) Family members made humorous comments about their life together.
D) The family seemed to rather quickly determine priorities for action.
E) The family wanted the nurse to decide what they should do.
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Chapter 21: Populations Affected by Disabilities
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Q1) Which of the following concerns can a nurse as a citizen help address?
A) Advocating for removal of environmental and social barriers to needed services
B) Continuing to engage in political action to increase funding for care for the handicapped
C) Recognizing that it is better to offer to help than to wait for a person with handicaps to have to ask for assistance
D) Needing to not stare or ask personal questions of a person with a disability
Q2) Which of the following was suggested by the National Healthcare Disparities Report of 2008 (NHDR) as one reason that there are such disparities in health care outcomes inside the health care system?
A) Care provider bias and poor communication exist.
B) Funding is inadequate to give appropriate care to persons with disabilities.
C) Many people do not seek care until it is almost too late.
D) There is a national shortage of care providers.
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Chapter 22: Homeless Populations
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Q1) Which of the following disorders is experienced at a higher rate by homeless adults when compared with the general population? (Select all that apply.)
A) Hepatitis
B) Diabetes
C) Asthma
D) HIV/AIDS
E) Hypertension
F) Alcoholism
Q2) Which of the following factors are most likely to contribute to homelessness?
A) Domestic violence and substance abuse
B) Scarcity of support systems and recent job loss
C) Shortage of affordable housing and insufficient income
D) Substance abuse and serious mental illness
Q3) Which of the following represents the largest group of homeless adults?
A) Minorities
B) Disabled
C) Females
D) Males
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Chapter 23: Rural and Migrant Health
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Q1) Which of the following best explains why companies do not build work places in rural areas where people are anxious to find full-time employment?
A) Employers need highly educated and skilled employees.
B) Managers do not want to be transferred into a rural area where they will not fit in and will not be comfortable.
C) Rural persons do not work as hard as urban dwellers.
D) Smells emanating from farms are unacceptable to persons working inside.
Q2) Which of the following groups is the fastest-growing component of the rural population?
A) Disabled adults
B) Elderly women
C) Hispanic children
D) Retirees
Q3) Which of the following are particularly prevalent in rural areas (more so than in urban areas) of the South?
A) Falls and motor vehicle accidents
B) Less use of seatbelts and more drinking of alcohol
C) Obesity and sedentary lifestyle
D) Suicide and homicide
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Chapter 24: Populations Affected by Mental Illness
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Q1) A nurse is working in a community setting caring for persons with mental health problems and their families. Which of the following is the most important and critical task for this nurse?
A) Be an advocate by writing letters to legislators demanding more resources for care for the mentally ill
B) Encourage all those involved to fight the community's tendency to stigmatize the mentally ill and their families
C) Establish supportive interpersonal relationships with all those involved
D) Lobby for increased funding for care of the mentally ill
Q2) Which of the following events occurred in 1965?
A) State mental hospitals were created.
B) The mentally ill were deinstitutionalized.
C) Electroconvulsive therapy was discovered to help depression.
D) Community mental health centers for outpatient care were established.
Q3) Which of the following best describes how brain imaging scans are being used?
A) To deliver electroconvulsive therapy to high-risk individuals
B) To help detect and diagnose medical disorders and illnesses
C) To help determine treatment options for mental disorders
D) To help determine the effects of psychotherapy
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Chapter 25: Communicable Disease
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Q1) Which of the following groups is especially at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)?
A) Recently divorced adults
B) Single young women between 19 and 24 years of age
C) Teenaged girls
D) Young males between the ages of 15 and 19 years
Q2) Parents have requested that their child be brought up to date on appropriate immunizations. After reviewing the child's medical history, the nurse prepares to give the two immunizations. What additional action should be taken by the nurse before administration of the immunization?
A) Ask if there is any chance the girl child could be pregnant
B) Ask the child if she consents to the immunizations
C) Assess whether the child has a fever or other illness that would require the immunization be postponed
D) Explain the pros and cons of obtaining immunizations to the parents
E) Give the parents the Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
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Chapter 26: Substance Abuse
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Q1) A family was dependent on the dad for financial support, and now he is in treatment for alcoholism. The wife asks you how long this will take. Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "Don't worry about length of time. Focus on helping him avoid alcohol."
B) "It all depends on how badly he wants to hold the family together as opposed to enjoying the relief of drinking again."
C) "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. He'll have to avoid liquor the rest of his life."
D) "Remaining in treatment is crucial; it must last long enough to produce stable behavioral changes."
Q2) A woman was bragging about her 12-year-old son who was quiet and spent a lot of his time in his room building model airplanes, gluing and painting pieces. Which of the following may be concerning to the nurse?
A) Being preadolescent, he needs education on sexual growth and development.
B) He may be inhaling fumes from the aerosol paints and glues.
C) Twelve-year-olds are not usually quiet; he needs a mental health consult.
D) Twelve-year-olds need physical exercise, and he is not getting any sitting around.
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Chapter 27: Violence
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Q1) A male strong firearms advocate stressed his guns were for self-protection and he wanted all criminals to know his family had loaded guns in their home. Which of the following best explains why a nurse would not support his actions?
A) Criminals carry more powerful and illegal guns.
B) Guns in the home typically result in dead family members and friends.
C) His children may be less careful than the adults in the family.
D) Less trained individuals might think the guns were unloaded.
Q2) Which of the following best describes why hate crimes involving violence are often considered worse than other crimes involving violence?
A) Because hate crimes cannot be avoided because one cannot change one's race or religious or sexual orientation
B) Because hate crimes often are committed by groups rather than individuals
C) Because more damage is typically done in a hate crime than in a typical assault and battery
D) Because the crime is personal, attacking the victim's identity
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Chapter 28: Natural and Man-Made Disasters
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Q1) Which of the following types of maps is crucial to be included in any disaster plan?
A) Communication map showing telephone wires and cell phone towers
B) Geographic map showing, for example, roads, highways, and train routes
C) Resource map showing potential resources in persons and supplies
D) Response maps showing sites of first responders, such as fire stations and police stations
Q2) Which of the following types of behaviors would a nurse expect to see when a disaster first strikes a community?
A) A sense of all being okay and that one can rebuild and go on
B) Anger and despair that help being offered is insufficient, slow, and inadequate
C) Everyone trying to help strangers, as well as their neighbors, survive.
D) People involved sharing their stories and reliving what occurred.
Q3) When would the National Guard become involved in a disaster?
A) When the Federal Emergency Management Agency requests such assistance
B) When the local government requests help keeping order in the community
C) When the president has declared the area a national disaster
D) When the state has been asked to help an overwhelmed community
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Chapter 29: School Health
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Q1) A school nurse was responsible for five schools. To give students required medications during the day, the school nurse teaches a particular office staff member in each school exactly what to give to whom and when, and they practice until both are comfortable. Which of the following remains as the nurse's responsibility in relation to the administration of medications?
A) To begin teaching a second person at each school because the original staff member might occasionally not be available to give the medications
B) To confirm with each student that they do not mind obtaining their medication from the staff person assigned to the task
C) To continue to evaluate the comfort level of the staff person in completing the task
D) To systematically continue with assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, and evaluation of student health needs
Q2) In addition to their homes, where are children most likely to be injured?
A) At entertainment sites (theaters, amusement parks)
B) At school, especially on playgrounds
C) At their part-time job settings
D) Transportation (automobiles, school buses)
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Chapter 30: Occupational Health
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Q1) Which of the following best describes what the Code of Federal Regulations, especially Title 29, requires of the occupational health nurse (OHN)?
A) All employees must be trained in first aid.
B) Postwork-related injuries, illnesses, and death records must be recorded yearly.
C) The OHN must serve as an emergency warden, helping employees to the emergency exit in a safe manner.
D) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspector must make a worksite inspection on an annual basis.
Q2) Which of the following best explains why job opportunities for occupational health nurses (OHNs) have continued to expand?
A) Federal legislation has required an OHN at any site with more than 50 employees.
B) Legislation has required employers to engage in certain tasks, and nurses were the most expert at those tasks.
C) Nurses have done an excellent job of describing the role and its benefits to the media.
D) Nurses are able to document cost savings to employers.
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Chapter 31: Forensic and Correctional Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following skills can a forensic nurse, serving in the elected office of coroner, bring to the situation compared with other professionals?
A) Extensive knowledge of medicine
B) Knowledge of the law
C) Previous experience in testifying in court
D) Superb communication and empathy skills
Q2) Which of the following would most likely be the result of a medicolegal death investigation? (Select all that apply.)
A) Clarification of the unnatural circumstances in which death occurred
B) Court testimony as to cause of death based on evidence
C) Consultation with defendant's attorney for a fee
D) Consultation with prosecuting attorneys for a fee
E) Death certificate with cause and manner of death
F) Permission to use deceased organs for transplant
Q3) Which of the following are the most common forms of elder abuse?
A) Emotional abuse by caregivers
B) Financial abuse when resources are used without the elder's consent
C) Neglect by self or caregivers
D) Physical mistreatment resulting in injuries
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Chapter 32: Faith Community Nursing
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Q1) On the basis of what a faith community nurse (FCN) believed was best practice, she wanted to share various methods of dealing with infertility. However, the tradition of the church was that childbirth was in the hands of God and it was inappropriate to use artificial means of becoming pregnant. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Ask to be excused from the situation if a couple wants to obtain information inconsistent with the church's teaching
B) Follow the teaching of the church and keep quiet; there are worse fates in life than infertility
C) Suggest that a client consider adoption and suggest an appropriate adoption agency
D) Tell the client all the various methods used in cases of infertility
Q2) On which of the following levels of care do most faith community nurses (FCNs) focus?
A) Hospice care
B) Primary
C) Secondary
D) Tertiary
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Chapter 33: Home Health and Hospice
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Q1) Although it was uncomfortable, a home health nurse finally learned to discuss finances with the client and family on the very first visit. Visits had to be reimbursed. Now that she is working for a different agency, funding was no longer such a concern. Which of the following offers the best explanation for this change?
A) Because the nurse was an unpaid volunteer professional, visits made by that nurse had no cost to the agency.
B) Only clients of high socioeconomic class were admitted for care, so the agency was always immediately reimbursed for care rendered.
C) Taxpayers fund official (i.e., public) home health agencies for care not reimbursed by third parties.
D) The new agency has a large foundation that funds its activities from investment profits.
Q2) Which of the following is the best use of the nurse's time while en route to the client's home?
A) Assess the surrounding neighborhood and the exterior of the client's home
B) Begin the client record using a computer or oral recording device
C) Look for appropriate places to obtain food, fuel, or rest stops for the nurse
D) Consider if another home health agency would be closer to the client's home
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