Family and Community Nursing Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Family and Community Nursing focuses on the promotion and maintenance of health within families and communities, emphasizing preventative care, health education, and the management of chronic and acute conditions in diverse populations. This course explores the nurses role in assessing family dynamics, identifying health risks, and collaborating with community resources to deliver holistic, culturally competent care. Students will learn strategies for advocacy, policy development, and community engagement, preparing them to address complex health challenges and improve overall well-being at both the family and community levels.
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Foundations of Nursing in the Community 4th Edition by Marcia Stanhope
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Chapter 1: Community-Oriented Nursing and Community-Based Nursing
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Q1) Two nurses plan to walk under a huge downtown bridge where various homeless persons live. Why would the nurses go to such an unsafe area?
A)To assess the needs of the homeless who live there
B)To demonstrate their courage and commitment
C)To distribute some of their own surplus clothes to those who can use them
D)To share with various churches and other charities what is needed
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following best defines aggregate?
A)A large group of persons
B)A collection of individuals and families
C)A group of persons who share one or more characteristics
D)Another name for demographic group
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is a basic assumption of public health efforts?
A)Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
B)Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
C)The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
D)The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing
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Q1) Which client would have been most likely to receive care from the Frontier Nursing Service?
A)An injured soldier
B)A homebound, elderly male
C)A woman in labor
D)A child with measles
Answer: C
Q2) How did nursing education change in the 1950s? (Select all that apply.)
A)Baccalaureate nursing programs typically included public health nursing concepts.
B)Diploma schools of nursing continued to expand their student numbers.
C)Junior and community colleges began offering nursing programs.
D)Nurses were strongly encouraged to have a scientific basis for their practice.
Answer: A, C
Q3) The Elizabeth Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which current law?
A)Welfare
B)Food stamps
C)Medicaid
D)Medicare
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Us Health and Public Health Care Systems
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Q1) A public health agency is planning to implement the electronic health record. Which of the following is a benefit of this choice?
A)Facilitation of interprofessional care
B)Improved client compliance with medical regimens
C)Cost savings to the agency
D)Compliance with JCAHO standards
Answer: A
Q2) How does managed care attempt to control costs of care?
A)By encouraging families to use the point of service list of individual practice associates
B)By requiring families to choose a care provider from the MC network and not allowing access to other services without their provider's permission
C)By moving Medicaid-eligible families onto state Medicare enrollment
D)By refusing permission for families to use urgent care or emergency department services
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice
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Q1) Some nurses are debating about the appropriate action to take in relation to a particular family. One member of the family is ill, and the other family members have chosen to continue working rather than take time off to care for the ill family member. One nurse states, "It's not up to us; it's the family's decision. They know what is best for them." Which of the following ethical approaches is being used by this nurse?
A)Communitarianism
B)Deontological ethics
C)Principlism
D)Utilitarianism
Q2) The staff cannot reach an agreement on what is the right thing to do in relation to a specific patient. Which of the following approaches should the nurse use in personally deciding what is right?
A)Do whatever will not get the nurse in trouble with employer
B)Do whatever is supported by an ethical expert, such as the hospital chaplain
C)Do whatever the nurse would recommend to anyone in a similar situation
D)Do whatever the nurse supervisor would feel comfortable reporting to administration
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Chapter 5: Cultural Influences in Nursing in Community Health
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Q1) A client is crying softly and saying, "What did I do to deserve this punishment, Lord?"
Which of the following responses by the nurse would be the most appropriate?
A)"God doesn't punish people. You're sick just because of bad luck."
B)"I can call the hospital chaplain to help you talk about these feelings"
C)"What can I do to be helpful to you right now?"
D)"Would you like to confess your sins and repent so this illness will go away?"
Q2) A nurse wishes to develop cultural competence. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
A)Complete a survey of all the various ethnicities represented in the nurse's community.
B)Consider how the nurse's own personal beliefs and decisions are reflective of his or her culture.
C)Invite a family from another culture to join the nurse for an event.
D)Study the beliefs and traditions of persons living in other cultures.
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Chapter 6: Environmental Health
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Q1) Which of the following actions represents the use of secondary prevention to reduce environmental health risks?
A)Collecting blood specimens from preschool children to check for lead levels
B)Meeting with local government officials to request that the city clean up a hazardous vacant lot
C)Referring a child with toxic lead levels to a neurologist
D)Teaching parents of a 2-year-old about the dangers of lead-based paint in older homes
Q2) A nurse wants to help keep the community environment safe. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the nurse to take?
A)Conserve water by bathing less often.
B)Downsize to a smaller living space.
C)Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
D)Replace all his appliances with new energy-efficient ones.
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Chapter 7: Government, the Law, and Policy Activism
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Q1) Which of the following statements by a client indicates a lack of understanding regarding an appropriate reason to sue for malpractice?
A)"Because the health care workers didn't turn my mother every 2 hours, she developed bedsores."
B)"I received permanent nerve damage because they would not remove a cast that was too tight."
C)"My daughter wasn't given a call light, and for a whole shift no one checked on her condition."
D)"They amputated the wrong leg during surgery."
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes why the federal government has become involved in health care?
A)The states asked the federal level to become involved.
B)Because of rising costs to the states, the federal budget needed to be used to pay for necessary services.
C)The Constitution gives the federal government the power to promote the general welfare.
D)This step was necessary to standardize care on a national level.
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Chapter 8: Economic Influences
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Q1) Which of the following services would be covered under Medicare Part A?
A)Blood draw to assess PT/INR
B)Physical therapy visit
C)Stay in skilled nursing facility
D)Transportation by an ambulance
Q2) Which of the following individuals would most likely experience a barrier when accessing health care?
A)A 40-year-old female who speaks English
B)A 25-year-old female with health insurance
C)A 50-year-old male with hypertension
D)A 30-year-old male who is unemployed
Q3) A public health nurse is counseling a client who is trying to determine if a health maintenance organization (HMO) or preferred provider organization (PPO) will provide the better health care coverage. Which of the following best describes one main difference between these two types of coverage?
A)HMOs provide comprehensive care to members for a fixed fee.
B)PPOs designate providers that members can choose.
C)PPOs provide one model of care delivery.
D)HMOs provide financial incentives to encourage members to select HMO providers.
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Chapter 9: Epidemiological Applications
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Q1) A nurse is concerned about the high incidence of STDs in the community college population and sets up a special STD screening. Which of the following groups of students would be encouraged to attend? (Select all that apply.)
A)Sexually active students currently receiving treatment for an STD
B)Sexually active students who had been screened the previous year
C)Students who claimed to not be sexually active and do not plan to become sexually active
D)Students who are sexually active but never "go all the way"
Q2) Which of the following types of study should the nurse researcher choose if the goal is to identify the long-term benefits and risks of a particular nursing intervention for senior citizens living in the community?
A)Cross-sectional study
B)Ecologic study
C)Clinical trial
D)Retrospective analysis
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Chapter 10: Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) A busy school health nurse concerned over the rising incidence of obesity wants to implement evidence-based practice (EBP) but faces barriers because of time constraints. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
A)Identify students who are obese so that they may be closely monitored for weight control success or failure.
B)Evaluate best practices to determine those that have the highest success rates for weight control in children.
C)Schedule physician appointments for obese children.
D)Develop an obesity management program for children whose body mass index exceeds normal.
Q2) Staff members have agreed to implement evidence-based practice; they have chosen a specific problem and searched the literature. The group has selected the interventions that seem the easiest to implement. Which of the following actions would the staff take next?
A)Assess the quality of the evidence in the literature.
B)Decide how best to orient the staff and community to the proposed changes.
C)Eliminate all nursing interventions that are not evidence based.
D)Choose another specific problem for the next literature search.
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Chapter 11: Using Health Education and Groups in the Community
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Q1) The nurse gives a very informative and engaging presentation and then gives everyone in the audience a handout that outlines the presentation. Later, the nurse discovers that many of the handouts were thrown away before the audience left the building. Which of the following educational principles has the nurse forgotten?
A)Audiences expect PowerPoint or video presentations, not lectures.
B)Many Americans do not have a high reading level.
C)People want photographs and images, not wordy outlines.
D)The nurse gave them too much information too fast for them to want to cope with it all.
Q2) A nurse just finished teaching breast self-examination to a large group of women at a professional conference. During the session, she distributed literature and used culturally appropriate visual aids. However, the session was not as effective as it could have been. Which of the following was the most important thing omitted by the nurse?
A)Time for audience members to ask questions and clarify the information
B)Explanation of why culturally appropriate images are more acceptable
C)Opportunity for the women to practice what they learned
D)Use of simple language instead of printed material
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Chapter 12: Community Assessment and Evaluation
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Q1) A community health nurse encourages members of the community to partner and assist in creating health programs. Which of the following best describes the rationale for this action? (Select all that apply.)
A)Partnering results in increased effectiveness
B)Involving community members results in contributions of time and money into the program
C)Having many partners results in increased publicity for the program
D)Participating in planning results in having a vested interest in the outcome
Q2) Which of the following activities are considered to be part of the core competencies for public health professionals? (Select all that apply.)
A)Defining variables relevant to current public health problems
B)Obtaining and interpreting information regarding risks and benefits to the community
C)Implementing nursing care and subsequent evaluation outcomes
D)Maintaining public health departments throughout the United States
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Chapter 13: Case Management
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the primary problem that can result from health care today being given by many different care providers?
A)Clients are not sure which provider to see first.
B)Health care providers have to make referrals to other providers.
C)Clients sometimes are not sure who their primary provider is.
D)Overuse, underuse, or gaps in care may result.
Q2) A nurse is using a case management plan to maximize patient care outcomes. Which of the following describes an important consideration that should be made by the nurse?
A)Case management plans should be used only by nurses to manage care.
B)Case management plans should be individualized for each client.
C)Case managements plans provide additional expense to the client and family.
D)Case management plans focus on the natural progression of the disease.
Q3) Which of the following is the primary goal of case management? (Select all that apply.)
A)To ensure that care coordination occurs across the continuum
B)To emphasize evidence-based clinical decision making
C)To manage resource use and control expenses
D)To stress the advantages and benefits of community-based care
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Chapter 14: Disaster Management
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Q1) A nurse is employed by the American Red Cross and is frequently assigned to fly to a disaster zone. Which of the following should the nurse's family members have readily available?
A)Gloves, mask, and other personal protective equipment
B)A copy of the nurse's professional license
C)A 5-day supply of water
D)A disaster/emergency plan
Q2) A nurse is assessing persons arriving at a shelter following a disaster. Which of the following would be the first action the nurse should take?
A)Limit the amount of equipment and medications brought into the shelter.
B)Determine if the person has a psychological condition requiring special attention.
C)Assess if this type of facility is appropriate for the person.
D)Provide medical care for persons as if they were in a hospital.
Q3) What is the purpose of the National Response Framework?
A)Create a new branch of government that deals with bioterrorism
B)Establish a way for the Red Cross to carry out its mission
C)Develop a nationwide all-hazards approach to domestic incident management
D)Extend presidential power to act quickly upon weapons of mass destruction
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Chapter 15: Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation
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Q1) A child came to school coughing almost constantly. The next day, six other children in the same school room were coughing. Which of the following types of outbreak would the nurse suspect?
A)Common source
B)Mixed
C)Propagated
D)Intermittent
Q2) A nurse noted that of 18 children in a day care center room, 5 became ill. Which of the following best describes a host factor that may be associated with this illness and who became ill?
A)Some of the children were from very low socioeconomic families.
B)Some of the children slept during rest time while others only rested.
C)The bacterial cause of the illness was easily removed by hand washing.
D)The day care center room was much warmer on three sides in comparison to the side with the floor to ceiling windows.
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Chapter 16: Program Management
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Q1) Which would be an appropriate descriptor that meets all criteria for defining a client to be served by a program?
A)All women ages 40 to 50 who have not had a menstrual period for 3 consecutive months
B)Immigrants residing in Central County for less than 5 years who have difficulty understanding care instructions because of limited English proficiency
C)Pregnant women who have received nutritional counseling but whose nutritional status did not improve
D)Children ages 18 months to 5 years old who have been treated for nutritional deficiencies at the Central County Clinic
Q2) A nurse is conducting a needs assessment but has a limited budget. Which of the following data sources would the nurse most likely eliminate?
A)Community forums
B)Examination of community indicators
C)Focus groups
D)Surveys
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Chapter 17: Managing Quality and Safety
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Q1) Stakeholders developing a new community-oriented clinic plan want to include a quality assurance (QA) program. Which of the following would be the first step in measuring the structure component?
A)Criteria that will be used to measure quality
B)Philosophy and objectives of the organization
C)Requirements of accrediting agencies
D)Standards the QA program wishes to achieve
Q2) The quality improvement team reviews the records of clients on a monthly basis to determine whether protocols for pain assessment were followed. Which of the following best describes the major drawback to the team's approach?
A)The client is no longer under the agency's care.
B)It is difficult to compare documentation of care to standards of care.
C)Records can be inaccurate or incomplete.
D)Team members may disagree on whether the standards of care were met.
Q3) What is the primary goal of total quality management?
A)To confirm the high standards desired in patient care
B)To discover and correct errors in task completion
C)To eliminate problems before negative outcomes occur
D)To enable organizations to publicize their quality approach to patient care
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Chapter 18: Family Development and Family Nursing Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following must be firmly established before beginning a family assessment? (Select all that apply.)
A)Why the data are needed
B)How best to interview each individual in the family
C)The most convenient time for you to visit the family
D)The rationale or purpose of the visit
Q2) Which of the following factors must be considered before deciding on an appropriate plan of action?
A)Family agrees to the nurse's plan.
B)Family is capable of the required actions.
C)Family will learn better coping skills from the nurse's plan.
D)Nurse has informed family how to complete the required actions.
Q3) A nurse is using the provisions of the Family Medical Leave legislation. Which of the following actions is the nurse most likely to take?
A)Resigning from employment, but retaining health insurance
B)Sharing family information with colleagues
C)Providing Medicaid to a family who cannot afford health insurance
D)Taking a defined time off of work for family events without fear of job loss
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Chapter 19: Family Health Risks
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Q1) An occupational health nurse is developing an educational program to address the importance of healthy personal health habits. Which of the following topics would be most important for the nurse to address?
A)Avoidance of alcohol
B)Regular physical exercise
C)Daily consumption of calcium-rich foods
D)Monthly self-breast and testicular exams
Q2) A nurse is drawing a genogram. Which of the following would the nurse use to demonstrate a marriage relationship between two individuals?
A)A broken line
B)A dashed line
C)A solid line
D)Two parallel lines
Q3) Which of the following best describes a normative life event that can increase the risk for illness?
A)A family is involved in a motor vehicle crash.
B)A group of teens experiment with recreational drugs.
C)A woman is pregnant with her first child.
D)The family wage earner is laid off from his job.
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Chapter 20: Health Risks Across the Life Span
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Q1) Which of the following adolescent(s) would receive care from the advanced practice nurse without parental consent? (Select all that apply.)
A)A 16-year-old who is living on his own (not with his parents)
B)A pregnant adolescent
C)An adolescent in an emergency situation
D)An adolescent whose diagnosis has a serious prognosis
Q2) Which of the following interventions would the nurse most likely implement when addressing the problem of asthma among school-aged children? (Select all that apply.)
A)Assess schools and day care centers for environmental "friendliness."
B)Share nutritional information with all students in the school.
C)Develop home and environmental assessment guides.
D)Teach all school personnel how to use rescue inhalers.
Q3) Which of the following behaviors results in men being less healthy than women?
A)Concentration on sports, hunting, and other dangerous recreational choices
B)Employment in stressful positions more so than women
C)Preference to spend money on priorities other than health care
D)Reluctance to visit physicians
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Q1) A nurse who is providing diabetes screening at a community clinic discovers that a new client has type 2 diabetes mellitus. The nurse provides counseling, refers the client to an endocrinologist for initial assessment and treatment, arranges for the client to see someone regarding financial assistance, contacts the mobile van to arrange transportation, and sets up a follow-up appointment. Which of the following types of service do these actions represent?
A)Case management
B)Client advocacy
C)Holistic care
D)Wrap-around services
Q2) A nurse is working as a case manager with a vulnerable population. Which of the following actions should the nurse do when providing care?
A)Be willing to enter into a long-term relationship with families.
B)Direct and control the client's care because the nurse knows what is most needed.
C)Encourage families to become self-sufficient and less dependent on nursing personnel for advice and referrals.
D)Rotate assignments periodically to prevent attachment and codependency.
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Chapter 22: Rural Health and Migrant Health
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Q1) A nurse tells her nursing supervisor that her family is moving from the urban area where they both live to a rural area to be near her spouse's parents, who are becoming less independent. Which of the following suggestions would the nursing supervisor provide to the nurse? (Select all that apply.)
A)"Community members will probably hold you in higher regard and will look up to you."
B)"Expect to have less autonomy in a small town than you have working as a nurse in a medical center."
C)"You may feel like an isolated outsider, because the community may not immediately accept you."
D)"You will have to be very sensitive about the differences in the rural lifestyle."
Q2) A resident in a rural community has been diagnosed with asthma. Which of the following providers will most likely provide care to this client?
A)Advanced nurse practitioner
B)Allergist
C)Pediatrician
D)Pulmonologist
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Chapter 23: Poverty, Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Teen Pregnancy
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Q1) A nurse is trying to decrease the risk for depression among older adults. Which of the following interventions should the nurse implement?
A)Encourage moving to a nursing home where others of the same age reside.
B)Monitor for signs and symptoms of depression.
C)Organize an exercise and health promotion program at the local senior citizen center.
D)Teach older clients to focus on their strengths rather than their weaknesses.
Q2) A nurse is concerned about a teenage mother who does not seem to know how to play with an infant. Which of the following behaviors would the nurse want to role-model as good parenting behaviors? (Select all that apply.)
A)Allow the baby to cry for 10 or 15 minutes before reacting so that the infant can learn to self-soothe.
B)Cuddle and hold the baby while smiling and gazing into the baby's eyes.
C)Teach the mother to keep her face about 4 or 5 inches from the baby and to gently blow on the infant's face.
D)Sing to baby with different melodies until baby seems to listen and shows a preference for certain tunes.
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Chapter 24: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community
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Q1) A home health client has been taking 50 mg of meperidine, a narcotic analgesic, every 4 hours for pain. Which of the following statements made by a nurse to the client's physician indicates a need for further education on narcotics?
A)"You need to decrease the time interval between doses to every 3 hours so that my client will maintain pain relief."
B)"You need to discontinue that order before my client becomes addicted."
C)"You need to increase the meperidine so that my client will achieve adequate pain relief."
D)"You need to give my client something in addition to the meperidine."
Q2) A school health nurse is conducting drug screening to detect drug use by students before problems develop. Which of the following levels of prevention does this action represent?
A)Primary prevention
B)Secondary prevention
C)Tertiary prevention
D)Primary and secondary prevention
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Chapter 25: Violence and Human Abuse
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Q1) A nurse is concerned about the possibility of suicide in a teenage boy. Which of the following characteristics has the boy most likely displayed?
A)He has threatened harm to his school peers.
B)He is between the ages of 15 and 19.
C)He is depressed and has a history of being sexually abused.
D)He has been accused of abusing an animal.
Q2) A mother cannot understand why her daughter ran away from home. When the police locate the daughter, she complains of a severe headache, so the police take both of them to the emergency department for assessment. Which of the following potential problems should be assessed by the nurse?
A)The daughter's inability to do well in school
B)Intimacy problems with the daughter's boyfriend
C)The mother's abuse of the daughter over a long period of time
D)Sexual abuse by the father
Q3) Which of the following is the most likely reason for a man to rape a woman?
A)Because the woman was asking for it
B)For power and control
C)Provoked by the woman's dress and behavior
D)Sexual pleasure and release
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Chapter 26: Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
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Q1) Six students order meals at a local restaurant. Which of the following students are at highest risk for illness? (Select all that apply.)
A)The first student asks for a salad with chicken strips and dressing on the side.
B)The second student asks for a hamburger, very rare.
C)The third student orders a tuna salad sandwich with extra mayonnaise.
D)The fourth student orders a breakfast meal with two very soft-poached eggs and toast.
Q2) Which of the following symptoms suggests smallpox as opposed to the more common and much less dangerous chickenpox? (Select all that apply.)
A)Child appears only mildly ill until late stages in smallpox.
B)Lesions appear in various stages in the same area of the body rather than all at once.
C)Rash lesions are most abundant on the face and extremities, not on the trunk.
D)Rash occurs 2 to 4 days after sudden onset of fever rather than with the fever.
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Chapter 27: HIV Infection, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Q1) A student asks the nurse at the student health clinic how AIDS is diagnosed. Which of the following statements would be the best response by the nurse?
A)"A diagnosis of AIDS is made when a screening test called an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is confirmed by the Western blot test."
B)"A diagnosis of AIDS is made when antibodies to HIV are detected about 6 weeks to 3 months following possible exposure."
C)"A diagnosis of AIDS is made when antibodies to HIV reach peak levels of 1000/ml of blood."
D)"A diagnosis of AIDS is made when CD4 T lymphocytes drop to less than 200/ml."
Q2) Which of the following provides the best explanation as to why people do not immediately seek medical treatment when they first become ill with HIV?
A)They are afraid to get tested for fear results will be positive.
B)They avoid the problem (maybe it will go away).
C)They don't recognize their symptoms as possibly being due to HIV.
D)It is too expensive to get an HIV test.
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Chapter 28: Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and
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Q1) Which of the following factors is causing nursing to change so quickly?
A)Economic issues
B)Increases in medical and nursing knowledge
C)Legislative issues
D)Technology changes
Q2) A nurse is employed at the state department of public health. Which of the following is a fundamental principle guiding his practice?
A)Decisions are made at the federal level, disseminated at the state level, and carried out at the community level.
B)Health of populations is only as good as the health of individuals that live and work in the community.
C)Oversight of community health departments is the most important function.
D)The interaction of the local-state-federal partnership is critical to success.
Q3) Which of the following is the underlying science or area of study on which public health is based?
A)Biostatistics
B)Epidemiology
C)Medicine
D)Social sciences
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Chapter 29: The Faith Community Nurse
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Q1) Which of the following statements suggests that faith community nursing is a nationally recognized specialty of nursing?
A)Academic programs now offer a clinical specialty in parish nursing.
B)Faith community nurses are increasingly receiving salaries for their efforts.
C)Faith community nursing is being adapted in other countries and to non-Christian faiths.
D)Scope and standards of faith community practice have been developed and revised.
Q2) Which of the following principles is central to the role of the parish nurse?
A)Advanced nursing practice education and skills
B)Faith consistent with the community and its leadership
C)Spiritual dimension of care
D)Willingness to serve anyone in need
Q3) A nurse would like to maximize her autonomy in her parish nursing practice. Which of the following models of parish nursing would most likely be preferred by the nurse?
A)Congregation-based model
B)Institution-based model
C)Teamwork model
D)Partnership model
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Chapter 30: The Nurse in Home Health and Hospice
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Q1) When meeting with a client and family, the home health nurse says, "We have discussed your health problems and limitations. Now tell me what level of health and function you hope to achieve." In which of the following phases of the nursing process is the nurse engaging?
A)Assessment
B)Diagnosis
C)Outcome identification
D)Planning
Q2) A new client has just been released from the hospital after intensive treatment for multiple injuries following a motorcycle accident. Which of the following types of care will he most likely receive?
A)Home-based primary care
B)Population-focused home care
C)Proprietary home care
D)Transitional care
Q3) Which of the following practices in the home is most crucial?
A)Using good handwashing procedures
B)Obtaining a puncture-resistant container for family to use for needles
C)Putting all contaminated material directly into a trash bag
D)Washing all surfaces with disinfectant
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Chapter 31: The Nurse in the Schools
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Q1) The school nurse has arranged for volunteers to help check each child's hearing and vision. Any child that the volunteers feel did not "pass" will be sent to the nurse for follow-up. The nurse will then send a note to the parents that a physician should be seen. Which of the following levels of prevention is being implemented?
A)Primary
B)Secondary
C)Tertiary
D)Both primary and secondary
Q2) Which of the following activities are included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's school health program? (Select all that apply.)
A)Ensuring a healthy school environment
B)Assisting teachers with education related to health
C)Encouraging nutritious school meals
D)Giving immunizations to students, staff, teachers, and their families
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Chapter 32: The Nurse in Occupational Health
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Q1) A nurse makes the suggestion that the 2-week shift rotations should be set up so that the next rotation in shifts is later rather than earlier. Which of the following is the nurse attempting to prevent through this suggestion?
A)Anxiety, depression, and exhaustion
B)Family turmoil
C)Physical illnesses
D)Sleeping disorders
Q2) A nurse who works for a hospital in employee health notes that several nurses from one unit have missed work after contracting a communicable disease from a patient.
Which of the following best describes the host factor?
A)Each sick nurse
B)The communicable disease
C)The hospital
D)The patient
Q3) Which of the following best describes the mission of OSHA?
A)To create an inspection system to avoid preventable loss of life
B)To ensure safe and healthful working conditions
C)To establish rules for employee safety
D)To share factory illness and injury rates with the public
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