Global Health Nursing Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Global Health Nursing explores the roles and responsibilities of nurses in addressing health disparities and promoting health equity on a global scale. The course examines the impact of social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors on health outcomes worldwide and reviews major global health challenges such as infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and access to care. Students will learn about international health organizations, frameworks for global health intervention, and culturally appropriate nursing care practices. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations, sustainability, and interdisciplinary collaboration to improve health at the population level, preparing nurses to be effective advocates and practitioners in diverse global contexts.
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Community Public Health Nursing Promoting the Health of Populations 6th Edition by Mary
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A. Nies
Chapter 1: Health: a Community View
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Q1) What historically have been public health nurses' two most important priorities?
(Select all that apply.)
A)Establishing school nursing to improve care of children
B)Engaging in political activity to improve living conditions
C)Giving superb clinical bedside care in the home
D)Increasing funding to public health efforts
E)Teaching family members how to care for their family
F)Working with the community to confront health issues and poverty
Answer: B,F
Q2) What conclusion can be drawn from examining where nurses are employed?
A)There is a trend toward consolidation of health care into large central medical centers.
B)There is an increased emphasis on community-based health care.
C)There is an obvious need to decrease health care costs by cutting positions.
D)Managed care organizations (MCOs) are employing nurses to improve customer relations.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context
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Q1) Which of the following scientific beliefs or ideas eventually changed medical practice and decreased morbidity and mortality?
A)Bad fluids cause disease, which can be cured by their removal.
B)Specific contagious organisms cause disease.
C)Spontaneous generation theory-disease grows naturally.
D)The miasmic theory-environmental conditions cause disease.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes why there is an increased need for advanced practice nurses in primary care?
A)Clinics are being built in many middle-class neighborhoods.
B)Hospitals are increasing their number of beds.
C)More nurses are choosing to obtain master's degrees.
D)Most physicians are specialists.
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 statements best describes a weakness of early nursing theories?
A)Many nurses did not know or understand the theoretical basis of nursing practice.
B)Most nursing theories focused on microscopic individual concerns.
C)The theories did not reflect the actual world of nursing practice.
D)The theories had global applicability to nursing practice.
Answer: B
Q2) A nurse is using Healthy People 2020 as a guide to improve the health and well-being of the community.Which of the following strategies would the nurse most likely implement?
A)Address the root causes of health problems
B)Choose one of the 28 focal areas for emphasis in funding and media attention
C)Concentrate on the goals of improving the quality of life
D)Continue funding expansion of the health care system
E)Expand efforts to put all medical records on electronic media
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the reason why so many Americans are obese?
A)Culture requires eating at celebrations and holidays.
B)For many people, caloric intake is more than needed for their physical activity.
C)Physical education is no longer a required subject in most elementary and secondary schools.
D)The expected portion size in restaurants has vastly increased over time.
Q2) It is rumored that there is something in the workplace that is causing persons employed there to feel ill.Which of the following actions would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?
A)Ask researchers to set up a study to confirm the health hazard in the environment
B)Assess the risk, including identifying any toxic substance
C)Confirm the extent to which the illness resulted from intergroup agreement on the illness and cause
D)Insist that the media not further spread stories of possible sick buildings until the truth of the situation can be studied
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Chapter 5: Epidemiology
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Q1) Which of the following would be the best method to increase the positive predictive value of a screening test?
A)Test a large population at once
B)Test a group at high risk for the health problem
C)Use a very sensitive screening test
D)Use a very specific screening test
Q2) A researcher wanted to engage in the best possible research design to obtain reliable information about the possible cause(s)of a disease.Which of the following designs would the researcher choose?
A)Cross-sectional study
B)Descriptive study
C)Prospective study
D)Retrospective study
Q3) A student athlete receives a screening examination before being active in school sports.Which of the following levels of prevention is being used?
A)Health prevention
B)Primary prevention
C)Secondary prevention
D)Tertiary prevention
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Chapter 6: Community Assessment
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which of the following best describes how people typically respond when asked of what community are they a member?
A)Geographic community (neighborhood or city)
B)House of worship participants or members
C)Occupational or professional group
D)Those who are devoted to a particular craft or hobby
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Chapter 7: Community Health
Planning,implementation,and Evaluation
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Q1) Which of the following best describes a flaw of many of the health care bills passed during the last four decades?
A)They avoided interfering with the current health care approach and did not improve problems of access or duplication of efforts.
B)They encouraged each state to do what was best for its residents without consideration of what was best for the nation as a whole.
C)They created new layers of bureaucracy in health care administration.
D)They did not include financing to pay for the suggested changes.
Q2) Which of the following describes why the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 was unsuccessful in its efforts to increase accessibility and acceptability,improve quality,and constrain rising costs?
A)A new president forced the legislation's repeal.
B)No federal financing was included to implement the law.
C)The federal government made no effort to enforce the law.
D)The law did not affect the current health care delivery system.
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Chapter 8: Community Health Education
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Q1) Which of the following led to the creation of the Health Belief Model (HBM)?
A)Attempting to create an educational program that people would choose to attend
B)Attempting to explain why people acted as if they were immortal and immune from danger
C)Attempting to understand why people chose unhealthy and high-risk behaviors
D)Attempting to understand why people did not flock to free health care
Q2) Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of both the Health Belief Model (HBM)and Health Promotion Model (HPM)models?
A)To create an alternative to analyzing each individual person's motivation
B)To find a more efficient way to explain behavior to other professionals
C)To help explain why individuals do or do not engage in health actions
D)To assist professionals in knowing how to intervene in client decisions
Q3) Which of the following needs to be considered when using the Health Belief Model (HBM)?
A)Prior behaviors
B)Perceived benefits
C)Health promoting behaviors
D)Personal benefits
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Chapter 9: Case Management
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Q1) A hospital is going to start a care management program.Which of the following groups of clients would most likely be selected to first receive such services?
A)Clients who represent the most common diagnosis group to be admitted
B)Clients who request such services from their local hospital
C)Clients with chronic illnesses
D)Clients with the least education
Q2) Which of the following best describes why health care institutions are unhappy beyond the fact that they are not receiving the previous high reimbursement for procedures from Medicaid or Medicare?
A)Because clients are well informed and know they do not really have to pay their hospital bills
B)Because insurance companies and other third-party payers copy Medicaid's approach to holding down costs
C)Because it is harder to continue giving charity care when less reimbursement is received from the federal government
D)Because recent legislation has required that all reimbursement be based on quality performance measures
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Chapter 10: Policy,politics,legislation,and Community Health Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following best describes what happened after the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 was enacted?
A)Additional restrictions in coverage were imposed.
B)Experimental treatments were approved for reimbursement.
C)Reimbursement procedures became more efficient.
D)A prescription drug benefit was added.
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes how policies in the private sector are different from policies in the public sector?
A)Private sector policies are slow, deliberate, and reactive to events.
B)Private sector policies are determined by the opinions and feelings of those employed in that sector.
C)Private sector policies are based on economics and market trends.
D)Private sector policies are based on rational decision making.
Q3) Which of the following nurses fought to have American nursing controlled by nurses rather than physicians?
A)Clara Barton
B)Florence Nightingale
C)Lavinia Dock
D)Lillian Wald
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Chapter 11: The Health Care System
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Q1) Who primarily provides care for military personnel,their families,and veterans,as well as Native Americans?
A)Federal government
B)Local health departments
C)Regional health districts
D)State health departments
Q2) Which of the following describe current legislation acts that limit what managed care organizations (MCOs)are allowed to do? (Select all that apply.)
A)Allowing patients to see a specialist without having to obtain approval from their primary care provider
B)Allowing patients to go to the emergency department without first telephoning for approval
C)Allowing patients the right to choose a physician
D)Requiring the MCO to fulfill expectations of the national patients' rights bill
E)Requiring the MCO to accept any provider who meets plan requirements
F)Requiring the MCO to accept advanced practice nurses as primary care providers
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Chapter 12: Economics of Health Care
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes why nurses should be knowledgeable about health care funding?
A)To be able to be an effective employee for insurance companies
B)To be knowledgeable when media asks for opinions on some new legislation
C)To better serve as patient advocates in policy making for funding that provides appropriate care for the greatest good
D)To know how to write nursing notes that reflect higher reimbursement possibilities
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 13: Cultural Diversity and Community Health
Nursing
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Q1) The nurse made a follow-up appointment for a client at the clinic,but the client did not come.Two days later the client presented at the clinic explaining that a temporary job had come up and he could not come back until he had finished and been paid for that job.Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse next?
A)Explain that patients are seen by appointment only, and set up another appointment for the client
B)Reinforce the need to plan ahead before arranging another appointment
C)Stress that health is the number one priority, and try to fit the client in sometime the same day
D)Understand that some clients are present oriented, and fit the client in so care can be given
Q2) The clinic was seeing a great number of Hmong immigrants from the mountainous regions of the Far East.If the nurse could not obtain a translator,which of the following would be the next best action?
A)Require each patient to bring a family member fluent in English
B)Start teaching Hmong patients English on each clinic visit
C)Suggest Hmong patients might be more comfortable seeking care elsewhere
D)Try to make flash cards with common phrases used during clinic visits
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Chapter 14: Environmental Health
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Q1) Which of the following strategies should a nurse use to remember what should be included in a health history?
A)Always use a preprinted form
B)Depend on education to learn this
C)Depend on experience to know what to ask
D)Memorize the I PREPARE mnemonic
E)Memorize the I HEALTH mnemonic
Q2) When using an environmental perspective,which of the following would be the most important question for a nurse to ask when assessing potential health problems?
A)"Can you tell me how you have been feeling?"
B)"Can you tell me what you do at work?"
C)"What brings you here today?"
D)"What problems have you been having?"
Q3) Which of the following is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers?
A)Secondhand smoke
B)Living near a nuclear power plant
C)Exposure to pesticides
D)Radon gas
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Chapter 15: Health in the Global Community
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Q1) Most of a country's citizens have died from malnutrition or as the result of violence.Which of the following conclusions can be drawn?
A)Their country has a problem with an adequate water supply for agriculture.
B)They live in a country where weather interferes with food crops.
C)They live in a developed country involved in a war.
D)They live in a developing country.
Q2) Which of the following statements best define epidemiological transition?
A)A change from morbidity due to a particular infectious disease to a different infectious disease
B)A change from mainly infectious diseases to chronic diseases
C)A change in infectious diseases caused by a difference in agent, host, or environment
D)A change in life spans of various age groups in a specific country
Q3) Which of the following actions has been most effective in reducing HIV infections in some countries?
A)ABC campaign
B)Free HIV immunizations
C)Religious leaders stressing abstinence or faithfulness in monogamous marriages
D)Public health workers distributing free condoms
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Chapter 16: Child and Adolescent Health
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Q1) A man,who looked about 45 years old,gave a cashier at a grocery store the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,Infants,and Children (WIC)vouchers for some of the food he had just selected.Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from this scenario?
A)He had a teenage daughter who was pregnant or with a young child.
B)He met the requirement for Aid to Dependent Families.
C)He really knew how to beat the welfare system.
D)He was handicapped, although his handicap was not immediately apparent.
Q2) Which of the following actions should be taken by a typical community preparing for the expected demographic changes in the United States?
A)Build more elementary schools
B)Build more high schools
C)Build more colleges
D)Build more adult condominiums
Q3) What proportion of U.S.citizens are children?
A)12%
B)16%
C)20%
D)24%
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Chapter 17: Womens Health
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Q1) Which of the following best explains why lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer?
A)Early detection and cure of breast cancer has lowered the death rate.
B)Pap smears lead to early detection and often the cure of uterine cancers, hence avoiding breast metastasis.
C)There is no accepted treatment for lung cancer.
D)Women have begun smoking.
Q2) Which of the following is the most common cause of death among women after age 75?
A)Accidents and unintentional injuries
B)Cancer
C)Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
D)Diabetes and its complications
Q3) A nurse has recently learned of the death of a 22-year-old female friend.Which of the following would be the most likely cause of death?
A)Complications of childbirth
B)Accident or unintentional injury
C)Cancer
D)Cardiovascular disease
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Chapter 18: Mens Health
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following is most effective in helping males choose healthier lifestyle behaviors?
A)Educational programs that include both threat and reward
B)Involvement in team sports at school or at work
C)Physician prescription for a specific behavior change
D)Support from a female family member concerned about the man's well-being
Q3) Why do some researchers believe data regarding health behaviors may be inaccurate in relation to men?
A)Men are not socialized to tell the truth when interviewed.
B)Men do not know when they are ill.
C)Most of the data are collected about and from women.
D)Most of the data are collected by women.
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Chapter 19: Senior Health
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Q1) A nurse is making the first home visit to a recently discharged elderly client.Which of the following should the nurse most likely expect to find?
A)A client who is unhappy with the disorganization of the house
B)A client who will expect the nurse to do everything now that the nurse is at his or her house
C)A client who may well have hearing or vision problems or both
D)A client who is upset with being discharged while still so ill and having to take on problems at home
Q2) Which of the following situations best describes when a person would most likely be very unhappy and perhaps ill after retirement? (Select all that apply.)
A)If their family total income is now less than when he or she was employed
B)If the retirement was involuntary
C)If the person's self-image was based on job role and status
D)If the person has no outside interests or leisure activities
E)If his or her spouse did not appreciate input into their schedules or activities
F)If the person believes others are now taking credit for his or her achievements
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Chapter 20: Family Health
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Q1) Which of the following best describes an unexpected result of the decrease in funding to traditional public and private forms of health care?
A)Emergency departments where patients can't be turned away are overwhelmed with patients needing nonemergency care.
B)Grants are increasingly being requested to pay for care.
C)More people don't receive needed health care in a timely manner.
D)Programs are developed as a result of community efforts.
Q2) Which of the following best describes what proportion of children live in a single-parent family?
A)Fewer than 10%
B)11%-15%
C)16%-20%
D)21%-26%
E)More than 30%
Q3) What has research suggested is a barrier to college students eating healthy?
A)Lack of access to an exercise facility
B)Lack of access to a primary care provider
C)Lack of knowledge of the benefits of healthy eating
D)Lack of knowledge related to food preparation
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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 is an accurate definition of impairment?
A)A disadvantage resulting from a disability that prevents fulfillment of an expected role
B)A restriction or inability to perform an activity in a normal manner
C)An anatomical, mental, or psychological loss or abnormality
D)A defect that affects society on a macro level
Q3) The mother confided in the nurse,"I don't think my child is improving." Which of the following statements would be the best response by the nurse?
A)"My assessment shows your child is improving."
B)"The children seem to be playing with and accepting your child."
C)"The teacher reported to me that your child is doing much better."
D)"What is causing your concern?"
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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 persons would be called chronically homeless?
A)A person has been homeless for more than a year
B)A person who lives with a roommate when between jobs
C)A person who has been staying with friends or family for an extended period of time
D)A person has been residing each night in a homeless shelter for almost 3 months
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 describes a proposed strategy to address the lack of health care professionals in rural communities?
A)Advertise that there are more men than women in many rural areas to attract female nurses who want to be wives and mothers
B)Offer free housing and office space to a professional who will come to live in the community
C)Pay extremely high salaries to professionals willing to relocate
D)Support local students obtaining an education while continuing to live at home
Q2) Which of the following would be true for a county to be defined as having persistent poverty?
A)At least 10% of the population has been in poverty for at least the last 10 years.
B)At least 10% of the population has been in poverty for at least the last 20 years.
C)At least 20% of the population has been in poverty for at least the last 20 years.
D)At least 20% of the population has been in poverty for at least the last 30 years.
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Chapter 24: Populations Affected by Mental Illness
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Q1) A family was very pleased with how well their child was doing now that he was on medication.They congratulated the nurse on getting their child help and said they were so impressed that the nurse was able to cure him.Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A)Congratulate them on being so supportive to their child through this ordeal.
B)Stress that the medication is controlling the symptoms and their child will continue to need their support.
C)Thank them for their recognition of the role you-and all nurses-play in promoting health.
D)Verbalize your observations of how well their child is doing.
Q2) Which of the following are the causes of mental illness? (Select all that apply.)
A)Excessive amounts of brain serotonin, dopamine, and ?-aminobutyric acid
B)Genetic inheritance combined with neurochemical and metabolic changes
C)Living through a severe disaster, whether manmade or natural
D)Physiological abnormalities in the brain structure
E)Posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD)
F)Social isolation, rejection, and/or stress
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Chapter 25: Communicable Disease
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Q1) A female client develops a fungal vaginal infection after being treated with antibiotics for strep throat.Which of the following components of the epidemiological triangle is primarily responsible?
A)Agent
B)Environment
C)Host
D)Interaction of agent and environment
Q2) A school had tried very hard to uphold the requirement for all children to be vaccinated.However,state law allowed parents to exempt their child if they had a religious reason for refusal.Two children have been diagnosed with chickenpox.Which of the following will be the most likely result?
A)Adults as well as children in the neighborhood will get chickenpox.
B)All the children who played with the two sick children will probably get chickenpox.
C)All the unimmunized children will probably come down with chickenpox.
D)Few children will get chickenpox because of herd immunity.
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Chapter 26: Substance Abuse
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Q1) Which legislation has increased funding for treatment and rehabilitation for substance abuse?
A)Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
B)Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988
C)Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act
D)Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914
Q2) A client has refused to stop drinking alcohol.Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A)Ask a physician to admit the patient to the acute care hospital.
B)Attempt harm reduction to help the client reduce drinking.
C)Cease giving care because the client is totally noncompliant.
D)Seek to have the patient admitted as a mental health client.
Q3) Which of the following best explains what experts believe is the causative factor in the decline in total alcohol consumption?
A)Americans prefer less dangerous mood-altering substances.
B)Increased "sin" taxes on alcohol and tobacco nationwide
C)Less social tolerance and no-drinking-while-driving campaigns
D)So many movies about teenaged drinking make alcohol look adolescent.
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Chapter 27: Violence
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Q1) The 7-year-old boy's hands were badly burnt; it was suspected that his mother had forced his hands into boiling hot water after she caught him masturbating.The staff did not want the mother to be allowed near the boy.Which of the following statements would be made by the nurse to encourage the staff to interact more objectively with the mother?
A)"If we won't let the mom near, who does the child have for support at this painful time?"
B)"Most abusers were themselves abused as children and need help to learn how to be a more effective parent."
C)"The child may feel responsible; we have to let the mother fix their relationship."
D)"We need to encourage the mother to continue parenting him or the boy will become a ward of the state."
Q2) Where is youth violence most likely to occur?
A)At home
B)At recreational facilities
C)In inner city schools
D)In fast-food facilities where young adults are employed
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Chapter 28: Natural and Man-Made Disasters
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Q1) As a nurse and a citizen,what is the nurse's additional responsibility in relation to disasters?
A)Assume the nurse will be asked to volunteer to assist the American Red Cross with helping care for disaster victims
B)Be aware if there is an unusual increase in the number of people seeking care with similar symptoms
C)Expect and plan for the possibility of being called to report to work for additional work efforts in caring for the sick and injured
D)Expect to be a role model in preparing for and reacting to a disaster
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.
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Chapter 29: School Health
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Q1) Which of the following legislation marked the first entry of the federal government into school health?
A)The Drug-Free Schools and Community Act
B)The Education for the Handicapped Act
C)The National School Lunch Program
D)The Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act
Q2) Which of the following led to school nurses moving beyond the role of screening,assessment,intervention,and exclusion of children for communicable diseases?
A)A communicable disease outbreak, which led to the requirement that all children be vaccinated against common infectious diseases
B)Federal legislation, which required immunizations for communicable diseases
C)Political movements such as temperance, which led schools to educate about the effects of alcohol and tobacco
D)The need for inspecting schools to identify children who were ill and exclude them until they were no longer infectious
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Chapter 30: Occupational Health
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Q1) Which of the following is a current challenge for occupational health nurses? (Select all that apply.)
A)Changes in employee demographics including gender, ethnicity, and age
B)Expansion in sites offering care using new, creative approaches
C)Increased affordability of health care services
D)Increase in managed care plans with need for case managers
E)Moving from large manufacturing facilities to smaller, service-based businesses
F)Ongoing need to demonstrate cost-effectiveness of services rendered
Q2) Which of the following is one of the most challenging areas for the occupational health nurse (OHN)?
A)Allocating time between direct service to employees and management tasks
B)Collaborating with other worksite professionals and retaining leadership in the arena of employee health
C)Managing ethical conflicts between responsibilities to management and responsibilities to employees
D)Maintaining competence through attending conferences and maintaining services when the nurse (sole provider) is absent
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Chapter 31: Forensic and Correctional Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following best explains why the infection rate of HIV and tuberculosis (TB)is so high among persons who are incarcerated? (Select all that apply.)
A)Fecal oral transmission because of lack of cleanliness and hygiene among inmates
B)Ignorance as to how infectious diseases are transmitted
C)Engagement in tattooing, drug use, and unprotected sexual intercourse
D)Lack of access to health care while incarcerated
E)Overcrowding, poor ventilation, and constant change in the population
F)Poor nutrition and lack of exercise while incarcerated
Q2) If a forensic nurse was employed in the most widely recognized subspecialty in forensic nursing,which of the following would be the nurse's primary tasks?
A)Be employed by insurance companies to review and interpret medical records
B)Complete the death certificate, including causes of death
C)Do a history and physical assessment and collect evidence
D)Review the crime scene for insights with police officers
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Chapter 32: Faith Community Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following best explains why the name of parish nursing was changed to faith community nursing by the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
A)To allow nurses to use the title "congregational nurse" or "church nurse" rather than "parish nurse"
B)To allow nurses who were not religious to accept practice positions
C)To decrease the emphasis on the church
D)To emphasize the community setting of the specialty
E)To reflect the diversity now found in the specialty
Q2) Which of the following best describes how the faith community nurse,as a health educator,decides which educational programs to offer the faith community?
A)Based on feedback from the local public health department nursing professionals
B)Based on what will help implement the Healthy People 2020 goals
C)Based on what is consistent with the health laws of scripture or holy books
D)Based on the health status and needs of faith community members
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Chapter 33: Home Health and Hospice
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Q1) Which of the following actions should the home health nurse take to get in touch with a client if the client apparently has no telephone?
A)Determine whether the client has family members in the area who might be able to get in touch with the client to ask the client to call the agency
B)Go to the client's address and discuss making a home visit with the client
C)Send a formal letter asking the client to call the agency for an appointment
D)Tell the referral source you cannot accept referrals without usable telephone numbers, so this client was not visited
Q2) Which of the following is the primary task to be accomplished during the initial telephone contact between the home health nurse and the client?
A)Make sure that the name, address, telephone, and other data are accurate
B)Confirm that the nurse will be a guest in their home so socialization can occur
C)Allow the client to give permission and agree to a time for a home visit
D)Warn the family that the nurse will always need to immediately see the proof of insurance before proceeding further
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