Public Health Nursing Test Bank
Course Introduction
Public Health Nursing focuses on promoting and protecting the health of populations through the application of nursing, social, and public health sciences. This course explores key concepts such as community assessment, health education, disease prevention, epidemiology, and policy development. Students learn to work collaboratively with individuals, families, and diverse communities to identify health needs, plan interventions, and evaluate outcomes. Emphasis is placed on addressing health disparities, promoting health equity, and implementing evidence-based practices in a variety of community settings. The course prepares students to play a vital role in improving population health and advancing public health goals.
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Community Health Nursing in Canada 2nd Edition by Marcia
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Chapter 1: Community Health Nursing
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Q1) A CHN often has to make resource allocation decisions.In such cases, which of the following approaches will help the CHN to arrive at the decision?
A)Choosing a moral or ethical principle
B)Choosing the cheapest, most economical approach
C)Choosing the most rational outcome
D)Choosing the needs of the aggregate, rather than the needs of a few individuals
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following best describes primary health care?
A)A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
B)Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
C)Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
D)Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is used as a measurement of population health?
A)Health status indicators
B)Awareness of levels of prevention
C)The number of memberships at the local fitness centre
D)Reported provincial alcohol and tobacco sales in any given month
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Evolution of Community Health Nursing in Canada
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Q1) Which one of the following was a very important factor in the success of early visiting nurses?
A)The care they provided that served as a model for all later hospitals
B)The more economical care they provided to families
C)Their role model, Edna Moore
D)The superb publicity campaign that was created by the health departments
Answer: B
Q2) Following the release of the Romanow Report in 2002, which type of care was identified as the most rapidly growing area of community health care?
A)Home care
B)Community problems
C)Immunization
D)Women's issues
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Community Health Nursing in Canada: Settings,
Functions, and Roles
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Q1) Which of the following is the best way a home health nurse (HHN) can help a client who has right-sided paresis secondary to a stroke?
A)Arranging for private duty nurses to assist the client with daily needs
B)Assisting the client with activities of daily living (ADLs)
C)Teaching self-care to the client
D)Teaching the family to assist the client with ADLs
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is being implemented by the occupational health nurse (OHN) who removes a foreign body from a client's eye?
A)Primary care
B)Primary prevention
C)Secondary prevention
D)Tertiary prevention
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion
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Q1) What is the focus of the definition of health in the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion?
A)Health is an outcome.
B)Enjoying life is more important than the need to maintain one's health.
C)Health is incorporated into one's activities of daily living.
D)Health is a way to maintain a stable environment.
Q2) Using the Community Mobilization Framework and the three health promotion community mobilization approaches, which element should be addressed first within the framework's social planning component?
A)Shifting power relationships
B)Problem solving at the community level
C)Community participation
D)Community social concerns
Q3) Which of the following accurately describes an appropriate starting point for the application of a population health approach?
A)Emergency life-saving care
B)The determinants of health
C)Health promotion models
D)Risk management
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Chapter 5: Evidence-Informed Practice in Community
Health Nursing
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Q1) Which of the following actions by the nurse executive would best implement evidence-informed practice at a community nursing centre that serves a large Cuban immigrant population?
A)Having university experts with cultural competency expertise review the centre's policies
B)Having weekly staff meetings for the purpose of determining which methods seem to work best when helping immigrants
C)Including Cuban immigrants from the community on the centre's advisory board
D)Sending centre staff to conferences and seminars that focus on providing health care to immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries
Q2) Which of the following is included in the ways in which a CHN can best facilitate incorporation of evidence-informed practice in the clinical setting?
A)Elimination of all protocols and standards that are not evidence based
B)Group reflection on the ideals and expectations of nursing care
C)Incorporation of more practice-oriented research into decision making
D)Revision of mission statements and organizational philosophies
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Chapter 6: Ethics in Community Health Nursing Practice
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Q1) Most of us believe that everyone should receive his or her fair share, that one should always be fair, and that each person should be allowed maximum liberty to make decisions about the self.Which one of the following does such an approach not take into account?
A)The needs of society as a whole
B)The inconsistent desire or need for a share of resources
C)The predisposition in some people for a need to be taken care of
D)Insufficient resources to give everyone a fair share
Q2) A physician refuses to order pain medication for a drug addict who was severely injured in a car accident.When the CHN requests medication to be used p.r.n., the physician states that the client's suffering from the pain of his injuries will build character.Which ethical theory is the physician using (or misusing)?
A)Consequentialism
B)Communitarianism
C)Virtue ethics
D)Utilitarianism
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Chapter 7: Diversity
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Q1) A family from Mexico presents to the public health department.None of the family members speak English, and no one at the health department speaks Spanish.Which of the following will be the most appropriate action on the part of the CHN?
A)Attempting communication using an English-Spanish phrase book
B)Calling the local hospital and arranging a referral
C)Emphatically stating, "No hablo EspaƱol" (I don't speak Spanish) and repeating as necessary
D)Finding an interpreter to translate
Q2) A CHN often used to sit with his legs crossed at the knees when collecting a client's history.However, he stopped doing this around his Iranian clients after being told that they were offended because this posture exposed the sole of his foot.In changing his behaviour, which culture-related response did the CHN exhibit?
A)Cultural sensitivity
B)Cultural awareness
C)Cultural knowledge
D)Cultural skill
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Chapter 8: Epidemiological Applications
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Q1) Epidemiology is a primary tool used by the nurse scientist for researching which of the following topics?
A)Locations where family violence is increasing
B)Contributing factors to childhood obesity
C)Morbidity statistics
D)Population characteristics for healthy older adults
Q2) The CHN knows that a regular-sized blood pressure (BP) cuff will provide readings that are falsely high if used to measure BP in an obese person and will provide readings that are falsely low if used to measure BP in a small or very thin person.Which of the following does a regular-sized BP cuff lack when used to measure BP in all individuals?
A)Reliability
B)Sensitivity
C)Specificity
D)Validity
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Chapter 9: Working With Community
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Q1) Which of the following is the best resource for the CHN who wants information about the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in a local region of the country?
A)Hospital records and statistics
B)Online information from Statistics Canada
C)The local chamber of commerce
D)The obituary columns of local newspapers
Q2) Which measure of community health will the CHN who wishes to assess the process of community health examine?
A)Health resource use patterns, such as bed occupancy days and client/provider visits
B)Health risk profiles of selected aggregates
C)Incidence and prevalence of leading causes of mortality and morbidity
D)Participation of individual and group health care providers in local organizations
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Chapter 10: Health Program Planning and Evaluation
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Q1) A CHN is checking the records of a health unit to compare the number of new teen clients who have sought contraceptive counselling and management in the 2 months before and after an education intervention program to decrease teen pregnancy.What step of the evaluation process does the CHN's action represent?
A)Determining outcome goal measurement
B)Goal setting
C)Measuring the goal effect
D)Evaluating the program
Q2) On the basis of projected increases in the number of older adult Canadian citizens, a planning committee wants to establish a daycare program for the community's older adult population.Which stage would be used to assess the needs of this proposed program?
A)Preactive stage
B)Reactive stage
C)Inactive stage
D)Interactive stage
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Chapter 11: Working With Vulnerable Populations
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Q1) Which of the following actions is a way in which the CHN can help prevent depression in older adults who are at high risk for it?
A)Encourage them to move to a nursing home where they will have the company of others in the same age group.
B)Monitor for signs and symptoms of depression.
C)Organize a health promotion program for older adults at the local centre.
D)Encourage older adult clients to focus on their strengths rather than their weaknesses.
Q2) A CHN who works at a clinic for homeless persons wants to institute a more efficient treatment for chronic wounds.Which of the following actions offers the best way to improve outcomes for these clients?
A)Administer antibiotics to all homeless persons with chronic, nonhealing wounds.
B)Facilitate daily access to a room with soap, water, and bandages.
C)Provide free bandaging supplies to clients at each clinic visit.
D)Regularly monitor the wound condition of clients.
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Chapter 12: Working With Family
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Q1) In a predominantly poor community, where eating clay ( pica ) is a common practice, through which of the following actions can the CHN intervene at the tertiary prevention level?
A)Helping the clients obtain extra welfare money, after explaining that clay, although filling, does not provide necessary nutrients
B)Initiating early intervention in the school system through education programs designed to focus on healthy food choices
C)Conducting laboratory testing and physical assessments to identify nutritional deficits resulting from pica and the lack of regular food intake
D)Surveying families to determine the presence and extent of pica
Q2) While taking a family history, the community health nurse (CHN) finds out that the husband is a stepfather to the eldest child.This information should be documented as falling into which category?
A)Family demographics
B)Family dynamics
C)Family function
D)Family system
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Chapter 13: Working With Client As Individual: Health and Wellness
Across the Lifespan
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Q1) Which of the following examples constitutes tertiary prevention by a CHN who wants to promote improved health in obese children?
A)Establishing lifestyle improvement programs through local youth organizations
B)Evaluating the food intake of a group of children for a 48-hour period
C)Providing educational programs to overweight prospective parents because they are at greater risk of having overweight children
D)Measuring body mass index in children during regularly scheduled well-child assessments
Q2) Which referral would be the best recommendation by the CHN for a physically and mentally challenged older adult who wants to continue living with her family but whose family members are all working outside the home?
A)Adult daycare services
B)Home health care
C)Long-term care
D)Older adult centres
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Chapter 14: Working With Groups, Teams and Partners
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Q1) Which type of conflict may be experienced when a CHN who does not personally support abortion is working with a group of teenagers to teach them about sexual health and pregnancy?
A)Interpersonal conflict
B)Intrapersonal conflict
C)Intergroup conflict
D)Interdisciplinary conflict
Q2) In your textbook, which one of the following is described as being a competency of emotional intelligence?
A)Norming
B)Group cohesion
C)Self-management
D)Adjourning
Q3) Which one of the following is an example of a nonfunctional group role?
A)Opinion giver
B)Recognition seeker
C)Follower
D)Feasibility tester
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Chapter 15: Environmental Health
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Q1) In which of the following scenarios does the occupational health nurse (OHN) use primary prevention to improve health outcomes when environmental health risks are present?
A)Using radiation detectors to detect unsafe levels of radiation exposure
B)Irrigating the eyes of an employee who has had a chemical splash to the face
C)Teaching new employees who will work outdoors about the signs and symptoms of heat-related illness
D)Using spirometry to rule out obstructive or restrictive lung disease in workers before they start using mask respirators
Q2) In which of the following scenarios does the CHN use 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 contaminated vacant lot
C)Referring a child diagnosed with toxic lead levels to a neurologist
D)Teaching the parents of a 2-year-old about the dangers of lead-based paint in older homes
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Chapter 16: Disaster Management
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Q1) When does the mitigation phase of disaster management begin?
A)Before the disaster occurs
B)During the disaster
C)Immediately following the disaster
D)During the recovery period
Q2) On the second day after a disaster, a disaster relief worker is found to be irritable and having difficulty focusing.He denies having any problem other than a headache.Which of the following actions is the best one for the CHN to take?
A)Dismiss the problem of inability to focus as probably being the result of worry, so that the worker can concentrate on the work at hand and deal with his emotions later.
B)Explain to the relief worker that he is experiencing signs and symptoms of psychological stress and recommend that he take some time off from work to relax.
C)Explain to the worker that his problem arises from multitasking and advise him to focus on one task at a time.
D)Suspect dehydration and encourage the worker to drink more fluids.
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Chapter 17: Communicable and Infectious Disease
Prevention and Control
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Q1) Of the following interventions for infectious diseases, which one best represents primary prevention?
A)Giving a tetanus booster every 10 years.
B)Giving a tetanus booster to a client after she steps on a nail.
C)Giving tetanus immunoglobulin to a client after he steps on a nail.
D)Giving antibiotics to a client who has tetanus and placing the client on seizure precautions.
Q2) CHNs have been advised by the medical director to give injections of hepatitis A immunoglobulin to selected susceptible persons in the event of a hepatitis A epidemic.Which of the following outcomes will be the result?
A)Active immunization
B)Long-lasting immunity
C)Natural immunity
D)Passive immunization
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Chapter 18: Applications in Working With Specific Aggregates
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Q1) Which one of the following is a feature of community capacity building?
A)Asking why
B)Assessing the status quo
C)Obtaining sustainable financial resources
D)Ensuring government is involved at all levels of planning
Q2) Developing a communication strategy to keep community members informed is an example of which of the following components of community capacity building?
A)Skill development
B)Partnership building
C)Documentation of progress
D)Establishing a planning team group
Q3) Which one of the following groups has the highest life expectancy?
A)Inuit males
B)Inuit females
C)Registered Indian males
D)Registered Indian females
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