Nursing in the Community Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the role of nurses in promoting health and providing care within community settings, with an emphasis on population health, disease prevention, and health education. Students will learn to assess community needs, develop intervention strategies, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to address public health challenges. Topics include epidemiology, environmental health, vulnerable populations, cultural competency, home care, and health policy, preparing students to effectively advocate for and deliver holistic care beyond traditional hospital environments.
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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) A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health care system. Why is this involvement important?
A) Nurses, as central characters in several popular TV series, are currently very visible in American media.
B) Nurses are primarily responsible for managing the various units in our health care system.
C) Nurses are the largest group of health care providers.
D) Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.
Answer: C
Q2) A nurse who works on the surgical unit at the local hospital was asked by the home health unit to make a home visit to a patient who had been discharged the previous day and to give follow-up care (for overload pay). What kind of nursing would this nurse be doing?
A) Acute care hospital nursing
B) Community-based nursing
C) Community health nursing
D) Public health nursing
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the first measures used by large communities to ensure community health?
A) Building safe sewage disposal systems
B) Healthy food choices and exercise
C) Praying to the gods for preservation
D) Use of medicine and other herbal remedies
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following tool(s) were used by Florence Nightingale to create change? (Select all that apply.)
A) Her incredible beauty and personality
B) Influence of all the nurses Nightingale trained
C) Political advocacy
D) Publication of treated soldiers' death rate changed from 42% to 2%
E) Use of statistics to demonstrate the effectiveness of her interventions
F) Wealth of her family and relatives
Answer: C, D, E
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Chapter 3: Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and
Population-Focused Nursing Practice
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes "thinking upstream"?
A) Focus on economic, political, and environmental factors
B) Prepare for your nursing career long-term goals by planning now
C) Seek causes of water and air pollution "upstream" from cities
D) Try to understand how or why someone got ill
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
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Q1) A nurse was becoming frustrated. It had been 2 weeks, and although the client had verbalized that the best time of day to take a 15-minute walk was early in the morning, the client had not begun to exercise. Which of the following principles of the Transtheoretical Model had the nurse forgotten? (Select all that apply.)
A) A decision to act always occurs before action begins.
B) Behavior change is difficult and takes time.
C) Continuing to stress to the client how important exercise is will help the client decide to exercise.
D) Discussing with the client why he or she is not yet exercising may help the client recognize his or her own resistance.
E) The nurse should offer some reward if the person exercises for at least a week.
F) Verbalizing compassion for how difficult it is to change is a crucial intervention.
Q2) Which of the following risk factors are least subject to modification?
A) Choice of lifestyle behaviors
B) Environmental exposure
C) Nutritional options
D) Recreational activities
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Chapter 5: Epidemiology
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Q1) A nurse conducted a study of two skin lotions: (1) an inexpensive one and (2) an expensive one. The nurse found that there was a relative risk of 0.7 for skin sores using the inexpensive one and a relative risk of 1.2 using the expensive one. Which skin lotion should the nurse use?
A) Impossible to tell from the data given
B) It made no difference which lotion was used
C) The expensive lotion
D) The inexpensive lotion
Q2) A community health nurse determined exactly how many cases of a particular disease were currently occurring in the community. Which of the following actions should the nurse take before determining what interventions should be planned?
A) Analyze whether the disease was a priority to the nurse's agency
B) Compare the current rate with the previous rate of disease
C) Determine what resources are available to intervene
D) Share the findings with the public health agency leadership
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Chapter 6: Community Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following provides the most accurate way to explain community health nursing?
A) Being employed outside a medical center, such as in a physician's office
B) Focusing care on the community as a whole
C) Providing care within the community, rather than a hospital or extended-care facility
D) Working for a public health department
Q2) Which of the following is a major factor in determining which people or groups are most likely to be helpful to a particular individual?
A) Anyone who has time to be available
B) Environmental proximity
C) Same employment responsibilities
D) Similar religious faith
Q3) Which of the following activities would be most helpful to a person in whom a serious chronic illness has been diagnosed?
A) Discuss it with a religious leader on a confidential, do-not-tell basis
B) Join a support group of others with the same illness
C) Share the diagnosis with coworkers and neighbors to gain sympathy and support
D) Tell extended family because many diseases have a genetic component
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Chapter 7: Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the first efforts at improving community health?
A) Environmental planning of water and sewer systems
B) Mass community immunizations
C) Passing laws requiring quarantine of infected persons
D) Segregation of ships from harbors until the harbormaster checked the sailors
Q2) A nurse has assessed an aggregate, determined the priority health needs, and decided on what intervention to offer. Which of the following will best determine if the intervention will be successful?
A) Accuracy of the nurse's assessment
B) Careful planning and implementation of the intervention
C) Determination of the aggregate's perspective of the need for the intervention
D) Selection of appropriate evaluation measures both in process and on completion
Q3) Which of the following best describes where the majority of time is spent by a community health nurse?
A) Caring for individuals
B) Caring for families
C) Caring for groups
D) Caring for aggregates
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Chapter 8: Community Health Education
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Q1) A nurse involved with a community group told peers that the group was learning networking, negotiating, lobbying, and information seeking. Which of the following provides the best explanation for why the nurse is not working toward a noticeable improvement in health status for the group? (Select all that apply.)
A) The nurse cannot improve the health of the group alone.
B) There are ways that these skills will be useful throughout the participants' life span.
C) The nurse is focused on teaching, not direct interventions.
D) There are no immediate solutions to the current health problems in most communities.
E) The nurse is still trying to obtain free health care for the group participants.
F) There are not enough resources to change the health status of the group.
Q2) Which of the following best describes why community health education programs are important?
A) It provides a way to reinforce voluntary behavior changes.
B) Health education is an area that has desperately needed improvement.
C) Health education prevents the occurrence of disease.
D) It is the most cost-effective way of improving health.
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Chapter 9: Case Management
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Q1) A nurse is explaining case management to a client. Which of the following statements would be the most appropriate for the nurse to make?
A) "We assess, plan, facilitate, and advocate to save money as much as possible."
B) "We coordinate your care so you obtain needed services without incurring undue costs."
C) "We seek the lowest cost provider to give you what care is necessary."
D) "We collaborate with you to coordinate your care for the best outcome."
Q2) Which of the following best describes the purpose of case management from the client's perspective?
A) To help clients navigate a complex, fragmented, confusing health care system to obtain appropriate care
B) To help clients recognize that health care resources are limited and must be used wisely
C) To help clients understand their varied health problems and the best approach to maintain their health
D) To help clients obtain whatever care they need or desire
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Chapter 10: Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community
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Q1) Which of the following best describes why it is so difficult to change the paradigm of health care from disease orientation to promoting health orientation?
A) The belief exists that those without insurance could obtain insurance if they worked hard enough.
B) People find it difficult to agree on what the ideal paradigm should be.
C) People realize the media have exaggerated the problems that result from lack of insurance.
D) Serious reallocation of resources would have to occur.
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following is accomplished through the use of public policy?
A) Solutions to problems of public concern are developed.
B) A rational, logical problem-solving decision-making process is implemented.
C) Public safety nets for vulnerable populations are created.
D) Economic and business management principles are applied.
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Chapter 11: The Health Care System
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Q1) Which of the following levels of government primarily establishes regulations and provides funding for health care?
A) Federal government
B) Local health departments
C) Regional health districts
D) State health departments
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 what insurance companies did to decrease their constantly increasing costs? (Select all that apply.)
A) Did not cover any illnesses that were diagnosed before the person (or his or her employer) purchased insurance
B) Limited coverage to only certain services, eliminating any that were experimental, nontraditional, or too costly
C) Reimbursed only the care that was requested by the patient's primary physician
D) Limited providing insurance to companies who hired mainly young, healthy persons
E) Required preapproval before expensive services were used
F) Ceased coverage on any person who used an exorbitant number of services, whenever possible
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.
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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) After being given negative news about a health problem, the client, with tears running down her face, asks, "Why did this happen to me?" Which of the following is the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "Could someone have cursed you?"
B) "Do you feel your life is out of balance?"
C) "God has a plan for each of us even if we do not understand it."
D) "Why do you think it might have happened?"
Q3) Before interviewing an Hispanic family, what is the most important action for the nurse to take?
A) Compliment each member on some visible asset
B) Establish rapport, and gain trust and confidence
C) Greet them in Spanish even if badly spoken and accented
D) Recognize the male as the authority figure in the family
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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 statements best describes what has happened to air quality since the United States outlawed the use of chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and carbon tetrachloride?
A) Air quality immediately improved.
B) Air quality is slowly improving.
C) Little change occurred because these chemicals remain in the atmosphere.
D) Nothing has happened because other countries worldwide continue to extensively use these products.
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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 health care could be learned by a developing country from a developed country?
A) Acceptance of illness or disease as a learning experience
B) Effective ways to treat chronic disease
C) Use of healthy behaviors to prevent illness
D) Delivery of primary health care
Q3) Which of the following nongovernment organizations (NGOs) is active in improving health on a global scale?
A) Carter Center
B) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
C) Pan American Health Organization
D) UNICEF
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Chapter 16: Child and Adolescent Health
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Q1) Which of the following would be a source of care if families are employed at a salary above the poverty line, but at too low of an income for health insurance?
A) Local health department clinics that provide care on a sliding scale
B) Health care providers who donate time and pharmaceutical samples to free clinics
C) School health clinics
D) The state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Q2) Which of the following offers the best explanation as to why it is important for low-income women to seek prenatal care?
A) To provide the extra support from a nurse who listens
B) To begin the process of obtaining hospital care for delivery for a reduced cost
C) To have time to begin healthy behaviors to ensure a healthy infant
D) To obtain referrals for other helpful services
Q3) Which of the following factors is the single largest threat to child health?
A) Child abuse
B) Obesity
C) Poor nutrition
D) Poverty
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Chapter 17: Womens Health
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Q1) Which of the following outcomes for the infant and mother have occurred because of fetal monitoring?
A) Improved outcomes for both infant and mother
B) No difference for the infant but improved outcomes for the mother
C) No difference for the mother but improved outcomes for the infant
D) No difference in outcomes for the infant but increased risk for the mother
Q2) Which of the following best explains why many elderly women do not prepare meals or do housework?
A) Chronic diseases, especially arthritis and rheumatism, hinder their ability.
B) Living in a nursing home does not require them to do so.
C) They do not want to; their husbands can share in the work.
D) With Social Security, they can afford to pay someone else to do these tasks.
Q3) Which of the following is the leading cause of disability in the United States?
A) Arthritis
B) Car accident
C) Falls
D) Heart disease
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Chapter 18: Mens Health
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which gender perceives and reports having better health?
A) Females
B) Males
C) No difference between genders in perceived health status
D) Perceived health status varies strongly by individuals more than gender.
Q3) Which of the following actions would improve a man's probability of obtaining health screenings and health-promoting education?
A) Being active in organized sports
B) Joining the military
C) Seeking an andrology specialist physician
D) Working for an employer that requires employees to have an annual physical exam
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Chapter 19: Senior Health
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Q1) A woman said, "I've never been retired before. I didn't plan it but it's OK. I'm still doing what I used to do otherwise; I go to church, make quilts for charity, and babysit my grandkids. Do you think I should be trying to find another job for a few years?" Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "For lots of people, retirement, even if unplanned, is much like life has always been."
B) "It's okay to slow down at your age; why look for problems?"
C) "You really need to get out of your house more and be more active, even if you don't get paid at the position."
D) "Without a job, you really don't have an identity. Have you been to the unemployment office?"
Q2) "My health problems are too much to handle," said an elderly woman at her annual clinical checkup. "What's most important for me to do?" Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "Focus on eating properly and staying active."
B) "Get the shingles immunization along with your flu shot this year."
C) "Keep active mentally-do you do crossword puzzles or Sudoku puzzles?"
D) "Stay involved with others. Do you ever go to the senior citizens center?"
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Chapter 20: Family Health
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which of the following best describes what is meant by cohabitation?
A) A living arrangement in which one adult is employed and the other is unemployed
B) A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple in a long-term relationship lives together
C) A living arrangement between two members of the same sex
D) A living arrangement between two single mothers with children
Q3) Which of the following are examples of the internal structure of the family?
A) Ethnicity and race
B) Extended family members
C) Gender and rank order of birth
D) Social class and religion
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Chapter 21: Populations Affected by Disabilities
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Q1) Which of the following problems depends on the responses of other people and therefore cannot be measured?
A) Disability
B) Handicap
C) Impairment
D) Injury
Q2) A nurse eagerly explained to a long-term disabled male client the most recent relevant research related to his care. The client, rather than express appreciation, said, "I prefer to have my care given this way." The nurse explained that research suggested an alternative approach was more clinically effective, but the client said, "I am more comfortable during the day if my care is given this way." Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Accept that the client knows what works best
B) Ask the nursing supervisor to review the research with the client
C) Give evidence-based care according to current research findings
D) Negotiate a compromise between patient preferences and research-based approach to care
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Chapter 22: Homeless Populations
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Q1) Which of the following factors would prevent a homeless person from accepting employment adequate to pay for housing?
A) Could not complete an employment application because of lack of mailing address
B) Hope for a better position than the service positions available
C) Lack of adequate resources to pay for other necessities
D) Prefer to receive a handout than to have to work
Q2) Which of the following describes a dimension of the social determinants of health (SDH) defined within Healthy People 2020?
A) Employment
B) Education
C) Gender
D) Income
Q3) Which of the following underlying factors most likely contributes to homelessness?
A) Substance abuse
B) Unemployment
C) Posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD)
D) Severe mental illness
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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) A nurse was becoming very frustrated at the ongoing stream of farmworkers with respiratory problems each spring. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Provide community education on herbicides and other chemicals spread each spring with information on self-protective measures, such as respirators.
B) Fight to get farmers to quit spreading chemicals on their fields each spring.
C) Suggest that farmers spray water on the fields immediately after the chemicals are spread to reduce dust in the air.
D) Tell farm workers to obtain different employment.
E) Try to get farmers to reduce the amount of chemicals used on their fields.
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Chapter 24: Populations Affected by Mental Illness
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Q1) A nurse is picking up her child from nursery school when the day care teacher says to her, "One of the boys we care for does not seem able to sit still and listen, but is always running around and getting into things. His parents are not worried. His mother said her brother was the same way when he was a kid. Since you are a nurse, do you have any ideas on how I can calm him down?" Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "I'm not a pediatric nurse; I really don't know what to tell you."
B) "I'm sorry you're concerned, but being impulsive and very physically active is quite normal for 3- to 4-year-old children."
C) "Tell the parents he has to see the doctor as he's not doing well in nursery school."
D) "Why not suggest that it's time for him to have a complete assessment and suggest the physician call you for an update on how he is doing in nursery school?"
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.
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Chapter 25: Communicable Disease
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Q1) Which of the following infections continues to increase in the United States?
A) Measles
B) Pertussis
C) Hepatitis A, B, and C
D) Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Q2) Which of the following would be one of the first steps in attempting to control a disease?
A) Create an appropriate screening test for widespread use
B) Define what the disease looks like in confirmed or probable cases
C) Determine the disease's portal of entry and portal of exit
D) Measure the extent of its spread geographically
Q3) A case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was diagnosed immediately on signs of illness at a tourist site in China. Which of the following actions should be taken to protect the badly needed income from tourist dollars?
A) Close the airports and refuse to let the tourists in the area leave
B) Begin to immunize everyone in the immediate area with protective vaccine as soon as possible
C) Quarantine the ill person and use isolation techniques when providing care
D) Screen everyone in the area by requiring a blood and urine sample
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Chapter 26: Substance Abuse
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Q1) A female student was extremely upset over her test results. She thought she had studied thoroughly, but her test grade would be totally unacceptable to her parents. Her friend said, "Come on, it's just the first course test. You'll do better on the next one. Let's go out and have a drink. You'll feel much better." After the first drink, how will the upset student most likely feel?
A) A bit nauseous
B) More relaxed and comfortable
C) Ready to have a second
D) Very thirsty
Q2) Which of the following behaviors is a warning that a person is no longer just using a drugs recreationally but is abusing drugs and becoming addicted?
A) The person decides to try a new drug, claiming to be curious.
B) The person is using the drug more frequently than before.
C) The person joins a friend in using drugs in a social situation.
D) The person is less able to control frequency and amount of indulging.
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Chapter 27: Violence
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following best describes the typical perpetrator of homicide?
A) A person trying to engage in rape with the woman fighting back
B) A person who wanted money and she refused to give it to him
C) A stranger
D) An intimate partner
Q3) Which of the following best describes why all citizens should care about young people joining gangs?
A) Gangs are beginning to be seen in suburban areas.
B) Gangs are responsible for destroying lives and property in inner cities.
C) Gangs commit as much as 90% of all crime in some communities.
D) Gangs help give the young person protection, respect, and sense of belonging.
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Chapter 28: Natural and Man-Made Disasters
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Q1) Which of the following agencies should develop a community disaster plan, have emergency drills to test the plan, and determine the proper response?
A) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
B) Office of Emergency Management
C) State Disaster Office
D) The National Disaster Relief Agency
Q2) A hospital emergency department received a call that multiple casualties were on their way, primarily burns from a large factory fire. Which of the following actions should the hospital take immediately?
A) Ask the governor of the state to declare the area a disaster area so state help can be obtained
B) Call surrounding hospitals to set up burn units, because there will be too many patients for one hospital to manage
C) Call in physicians and nursing staff who are experts in burn care
D) Get in touch with the American Red Cross to assist families of the victims
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Chapter 29: School Health
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Q1) Which of the following is the most commonly used drug among children and adolescents in the United States?
A) Alcohol
B) Marijuana
C) Methamphetamine
D) Cocaine
E) Steroids
Q2) Everyone in a high school was very upset over the fact that one of the students had shot and killed another student. The nurse decided this was an appropriate time to establish a program to help prevent violence. Which of the following groups of students should receive the program first?
A) Elementary school grades 4, 5, and 6
B) Grades 7, 8, and 9
C) High school grades 10, 11, and 12
D) The students who knew the victim and his assailant
Q3) 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 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
Q2) An occupational health nurse (OHN) works in a state that requires continuing education units per year for renewing a nursing license. Which of the following courses would probably be most helpful in the role?
A) Diversity and Human Caring
B) Ergonomics and Toxicology
C) Evaluating Risks and Personnel Management
D) Health Assessment and Home Health Care
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Chapter 31: Forensic and Correctional Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following best describes how a legal nurse consultant (LNC) would best prepare for testifying in court as an expert witness? (Select all that apply.)
A) By carefully analyzing the client's medical record and related documents
B) By creating a PowerPoint slide presentation to help educate the jury
C) By helping to examine all the witnesses in preparation for the court trial
D) By personally doing or observing the autopsy on the deceased
E) By preparing charts and tables illustrating the important legal points
F) By summarizing the literature regarding the standard of care
Q2) Which of the following best describe how the prevalence of violence and violent crimes has changed the professional practice of health care providers?
A) Vulnerable groups are now assessed for evidence of abuse.
B) The focus has now shifted from patient care toward more personal safety.
C) It is now recognized that new specialties continue to be created.
D) Each patient is now routinely screened for violence.
Q3) Which of the following are most likely to physically abuse elderly Americans?
A) A partner or spouse
B) A caregiver
C) A stranger
D) An adult child
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Chapter 32: Faith Community Nursing
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Q1) The faith community nurse (FCN) finds the faith community's needs overwhelming. Which of the following best describes how the nurse can best meet the community's many needs?
A) Discover appropriate resources already existing in the community
B) Help the community members meet their own needs independently of the nurse or other assistance
C) Recruit, train, and direct volunteers to implement needed programs
D) Suggest the faith community recruit more parish nurses to help
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
Q3) Which of the following has been confirmed by research regarding the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health?
A) Essentially, religion gives persons a sense of hope.
B) Faith communities help by praying for ill persons during services.
C) Healthy persons have a tendency to be active within their faith communities.
D) Persons who attend services have decreased anxiety, depression, and stress.
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Chapter 33: Home Health and Hospice
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the documentation that the nurse should expect to complete during the home visit?
A) Creation of a carefully laid out nursing care plan for future visits
B) Documentation of assessment data and care given demonstrating the nurse's effectiveness
C) Necessary documentation will depend on the agency policies and forms
D) Completed Medicare forms per the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) regulations for reimbursement
Q2) Which of the following is the most important task to be accomplished during the initial home visit?
A) Assess the client and the family
B) Discuss social topics
C) Educate the client and the family regarding the health problem
D) Establish rapport and trust
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