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Course Introduction
Public Health Nursing focuses on promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences. This course explores the principles and practices of community assessment, epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, and health education. Students learn to develop, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions that address the needs of diverse communities, with special emphasis on vulnerable and at-risk populations. The curriculum also covers collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, policy development, program planning, and the ethical, legal, and cultural considerations inherent in public health nursing practice.
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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) What are the leading health indicators found in Healthy People 2020? (Select all that apply.)
A) Financial issues
B) Health system issues
C) Individual behaviors
D) Issues related to legal and illegal immigration
E) Legislative issues
F) Physical and social environmental factors
Answer: B, C, F
Q2) Why would a public health nurse want to know about morbidity and mortality statistics on the local, state, and national level?
A) To be able to share current trends in health problems with the community
B) To be able to observe the community's statistics over time and compare the community with other communities
C) To justify local budgets and the need for increased income from citizens
D) To publicize current health issues and suggest appropriate actions to citizens
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 an innovation introduced by the Romans?
A) Citizenship duties
B) Daily street cleaning
C) Hospitals and nursing homes
D) Daily exercise
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following nursing interventions would have most likely been used by Florence Nightingale when treating wounded soldiers?
A) Establishing private visits with spouses
B) Improving food, clothing, and cleanliness
C) Administering intravenous medications
D) Completing a community assessment of the army hospital
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following interventions was the first step in controlling the incidence of tuberculosis (TB)?
A) Institutions were required to report TB cases.
B) Federal funding was devoted to seeking TB causes and cures.
C) Physicians began surveillance of TB cases.
D) States built large public hospitals to treat patients with TB.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and
Population-Focused Nursing Practice
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Q1) A nurse is using the critical theoretical perspective in practice. Which of the following best describes how the nurse would respond when a client suggests that the physician prescribe a widely advertised medication for tension and anxiety? (Select all that apply.)
A) Can you tell me what is going on in your life right now?
B) Do you know anyone else who is suffering such tension and anxiety?
C) How does your family feel about you having so much tension and anxiety?
D) Would you consider using the generic equivalent of this medication?
E) What led you to believe this medication would be of help to you?
F) What have you tried in the past to relieve tension and anxiety?
Answer: A, F
Q2) Which of the following assumptions of the health belief model (HBM) is problematic?
A) People have both free will and access to health resources.
B) People listen to the advice given by health care professionals.
C) People are influenced by health messages given over media channels.
D) People make what they perceive as rational decisions in a given situation.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
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Q1) 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
Q2) A nurse is completing a health history with a client. Which of the following questions would be most important to include?
A) How many alcoholic drinks do you have in a day?
B) How many sexual partners have you had in the past month?
C) What nonprescription drugs do you take on a routine basis?
D) What kinds of tobacco do you use daily?
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Chapter 5: Epidemiology
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Q1) Which of the following has been determined to be a major variable in transmission of sexually transmitted infections?
A) The pathogenesis of the involved agents
B) The susceptibility of the host
C) The environment in which the hosts live
D) The amount of sex education provided in the schools
Q2) In which of the following circumstances would it be more helpful to use the wheel model of epidemiology than the epidemiological triangle model?
A) When factors outside the triangle model are involved
B) When there are multiple causes for a chronic disease
C) When research has not yet determined the exact cause
D) When trying to explain the situation to a lay person
Q3) 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
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Chapter 6: Community Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the aspects central to the definition of community? (Select all that apply.)
A) Geographic boundaries at a point in time
B) Whatever is most convenient for the nurse
C) Patterns of disease found
D) Persons who share common goals and interests
E) Persons who band together to address a shared problem
F) The name the people have given themselves
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following best describes shoe leather epidemiology?
A) Implementing the wheel model of epidemiology
B) Engaging in extensive truth seeking like a detective in the community
C) Traveling throughout the community to absorb an overall impression of it
D) Facilitating sharing of the community's history by community leaders
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Chapter 7: Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
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Q1) Which of the following must be created before establishing the evaluation plan for a health project?
A) A clear set of both short-term and long-term goals
B) Decision as to who will collect the evaluation data
C) Observable and measurable objectives
D) Setting up a computer program to analyze the evaluation data
Q2) A nurse would like to quickly and easily learn more about an aggregate. Which of the following sources of information would be best for the nurse to use to quickly and easily become informed about an aggregate? (Select all that apply.)
A) Conduct a telephone survey of those aggregate members
B) Interview people who have previously been involved with the aggregate
C) Review any available records or previously gathered data
D) Send a mail survey to everyone in the surrounding geographic area
E) Try to find a few key informants and ask for their input
F) Use observation without anyone in the aggregate knowing he or she is being observed
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Chapter 8: Community Health Education
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Q1) A nurse is using the Framework for Developing Health Communications to create a health program in the community. Which of the following is the first step the nurse would take?
A) Determine factors related to the health problems, such as low socioeconomic status or educational level
B) Assess health resources available (e.g., money, staff, materials)
C) Establish goals and objectives that are prioritized and time specific
D) Target the program to meet the audience's learning needs as they perceive them
Q2) A nurse wants to make sure that the teaching materials and the communication channels being planned for use during an educational program will be effective. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
A) Create materials based on the goals of the program, assuming a low literacy level
B) Determine the reading level of the audience and the materials to be distributed
C) Only use materials that have been professionally developed by a commercial group
D) Pretest the materials with members of the target group to obtain feedback
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Chapter 9: Case Management
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
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Chapter 10: Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
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Q1) A nurse represents the state professional association. Which of the following actions would the nurse complete in relation to legislation?
A) Be prepared to contribute to campaigns of legislators who vote consistently with nursing goals
B) Be prepared to confront verbally those on the opposite side of legislative issues
C) Be prepared to provide testimony and comment on relevant issues
D) Be prepared to visit schools of nursing to present about the current legislative issues
Q2) The president was sent a bill that he did not really like, but he would have been unpopular if he vetoed it, so he did nothing. Which of the following best describes what will happen to the bill?
A) The bill is dead.
B) The bill returns to both houses to see if enough votes can be obtained to pass the bill even without the president signing the bill.
C) The bill becomes law.
D) The bill sits there until the president signs it or vetoes it.
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Chapter 11: The Health Care System
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Q1) Which of the following functions are responsibilities of the states? (Select all that apply.)
A) Delegating power to localities and holding them accountable for results
B) Creating managed health organizations to decrease state health care costs
C) Establishing and managing local health departments
D) Licensure of professional health care providers
E) Overseeing all insurance programs
F) Providing access to necessary health services
Q2) Which of the following advanced nurses does not have advanced education in a clinical specialty?
A) Clinical nurse leader
B) Clinical nurse specialist
C) Nurse midwife
D) Nurse practitioner
Q3) 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
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Chapter 12: Economics of Health Care
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes a major event that occurred in the 1960s that affected health care?
A) The amount of charity care by health care providers greatly increased.
B) Hospitals began to voluntarily pay taxes to the communities where they were located.
C) Legislation greatly expanded funds available to train physicians, nurses, and other health care providers.
D) The Social Security Act was amended to create Medicare and Medicaid legislation.
Q2) Which of the following best describes the effects of Medicare and Medicaid? (Select all that apply.)
A) All persons who were temporarily disabled now receive free care.
B) A previously unseen rise in demand for services occurred.
C) Many persons previously without access now receive health care.
D) Medicare reimbursement rates became the standard for all insurance carriers.
E) Indemnity insurance plans were offered.
F) Public health education was now financed.
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Chapter 13: Cultural Diversity and Community Health
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Q1) A nurse felt very good about an Asian man who had responded positively to the instructions given to him. Later, the nurse heard him tell his wife that there was no way he could implement the suggestions. Which of the following best describes the problem that the client is experiencing?
A) Polite response may not equal agreement.
B) Men do not take instruction from women.
C) His culture may value harmonious relationships over expressing disagreement.
D) The nurse told him what to do but did not ask if he could do it.
Q2) Which of the following are the most important factors in reducing disparities in health outcomes between different cultural groups? (Select all that apply.)
A) A strong family structure
B) Access to a health care provider
C) Access to transportation
D) Health care insurance
E) Having ongoing employment
F) Owning one's own home
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Chapter 14: Environmental Health
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Q1) Which of the following actions should be taken by a small community group who hopes to accomplish goals against a large powerful corporation?
A) Appeal to the chief executive officer's conscience
B) Ask the corporation's employees to encourage change
C) Begin legal action to force the corporation to change
D) Form coalitions with other groups that have similar goals
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) How does critical theory differ from other nursing theories such as the health belief model or Orem's self-care deficit theory?
A) Critical theory can be used by professionals other than nurses.
B) Critical theory focuses on oppression and facilitates group action.
C) Critical theory is not directly related to health promotion.
D) Critical theory confronts changing an individual's beliefs.
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Chapter 15: Health in the Global Community
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Q1) In what way is the U.S. approach to primary health care inconsistent with the World Health Organization (WHO) approach?
A) Our primary health care system does not provide universal coverage to all citizens.
B) Most U.S. citizens can afford health care through employer insurance plans.
C) Tertiary care is preferred over primary care.
D) U.S. hospitals make maximum use of the newest and best technology.
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) A school nurse is trying to decrease the effects of an incredible health crisis attacking school children. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?
A) Arrange for booster shots to maximize immunization protection against childhood infectious diseases
B) Arrange for swine flu and regular flu shots each year
C) Establish recreational programs that encourage physical exercise each day
D) For those whose parents give permission, teach adolescents about the need for abstinence or "safe sex"
Q2) When considering the benefits for the recipients, which is more beneficial: Medicaid or private insurance?
A) Private insurance, because it is accepted by all providers, whereas Medicaid is not
B) Private insurance, because it gives its beneficiaries more benefits than Medicaid gives C) Medicaid, because it includes early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment services
D) Medicaid, because it is available for all children
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Chapter 17: Womens Health
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Q1) A woman was in the emergency department with a bruised and broken leg. She explained that she had accidentally opened the car door on a trip and the door had blown back on her leg. Her husband was very attentive, constantly asking the nurse to make his wife more comfortable. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Ask the husband to step out of the room while you get a urine specimen, and, after he leaves, ask the woman, "Have you ever been deliberately hurt by someone?"
B) Call x-ray immediately, and prepare for the leg to have a cast applied.
C) Put ice bags on the area until the leg can be repaired.
D) Try to get an additional pain medication order from the physician.
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
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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 questions would be a good opening to address health concerns with a male client?
A) "How do you know when you are ill?"
B) "What sort of health problems or illnesses do you have?"
C) "What are your usual physical activities?"
D) "What would your wife say about your health?"
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 19: Senior Health
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Q1) "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?"
Q2) Which of the following is the most useful way to discuss aging?
A) By divisions-young-old, middle-old, old-old, and elite-old
B) Chronological age
C) Functional age
D) Number of chronic comorbidities
Q3) Which of the following is the most common reason for visual impairment in older adults?
A) Cataracts
B) Glaucoma
C) Macular degeneration
D) Presbyopia
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Chapter 20: Family Health
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Q1) Which of the following definitions of family would be the most useful for the nurse practicing in the community?
A) A group of persons with shared convictions
B) A social unit interacting with the larger society
C) People descended from a common ancestor
D) Persons related either by blood or by legal contract (marriage)
E) Whoever the family says is in their family
Q2) A nurse asked of a family, "Could each of you tell me what you typically do during the week?" Which of the following would the nurse most likely say to follow up such an open-ended question?
A) "Could you tell me about what you do at your job?"
B) "Do you believe those choices are the best use of your free time?"
C) "How do you feel about those activities?"
D) "Is there anything you would like to do differently?"
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) A young man rolled his wheelchair up the ramp into the clinic to the desk where the intake nurse greeted him. After welcoming him to the clinic, which of the following should be the initial question asked by the nurse?
A) "Are you a vet home from the war?"
B) "Can I help you into the treatment room to see the nurse practitioner?"
C) "Do you have any family with you to help today?"
D) "What brings you to the clinic today?"
Q2) Which of the following best describes why some advocacy groups have taken a strong stand against physician-assisted suicide?
A) Ethical belief that life is always preferable to death
B) Emphasis that there is always hope for a research breakthrough or discovery of a new treatment intervention
C) Fear that some persons may be "encouraged" to accept an early death merely because they are not valued by society for their contributions
D) Helping someone die is murder, plain and simple
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Chapter 22: Homeless Populations
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the recent trends in homelessness?
A) The number of homeless individuals in school is decreasing.
B) The number of homeless individuals is increasing.
C) The number of people in homeless families is increasing.
D) The number of people in homeless families is decreasing.
Q2) Which of the following best describes the problem with the Section 8 housing program?
A) Direct access to an apartment in a public housing facility is faster and easier.
B) Most renters prefer the program to make direct payment to apartment owners willing to rent to them.
C) Section 8 housing is essentially slum housing, and no one wants to live there.
D) Supply is vastly less than the demand.
Q3) Which of the following persons will have the most difficulty in obtaining adequate support services to find a long-term home?
A) An alcoholic homeless person
B) A homeless person who has a limited support system and is unemployed
C) A homeless person who has a mental illness and is an alcoholic
D) A mentally ill homeless person
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Chapter 23: Rural and Migrant Health
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to provide public health services to Americans residing in a rural community?
A) Public health nurse
B) Public health physician
C) Epidemiologist
D) Nurse practitioner
Q2) In comparison with mental health care in urban areas, which of the following best describes how mental health care in rural areas differs? (Select all that apply.)
A) Access to care is more limited or not available at all locally.
B) Cost for treatment is typically reimbursed at a lower rate.
C) Depression is frequently not recognized or is not treated.
D) Ethnic and racial disparities exist.
E) Primary health care professionals accept responsibility for mental health treatment.
F) The suicide rate is notably higher.
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Chapter 24: Populations Affected by Mental Illness
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Q1) 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.
Q2) A patient with severe panic attacks refuses to come to the mental health clinic to get help even after being assured there is no charge for the initial assessment. Which of the following provides the best explanation for this behavior?
A) People know that the treatment is to confront your fears in small doses, and the very idea is overwhelming and frightening.
B) Such persons have anticipatory anxiety, so they try to avoid situations that may lead to a panic attack, such as leaving their house.
C) The recurring symptoms such as tachycardia, chest pain, nausea, and sweating are seen as symptoms of a physical illness, not a mental illness.
D) They are too depressed to take action.
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Chapter 25: Communicable Disease
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Q1) A patient walks into a community clinic complaining of severe intestinal cramps and diarrhea. Which of the following actions can be taken to protect the staff at the clinic?
A) Refuse to see anyone that sick as clinics have a different mission than secondary and tertiary care of the obviously ill
B) Send the patient immediately to the closest hospital emergency department
C) Treat the patient with broad-spectrum antibiotics and lots of fluids
D) Use universal precautions with all patients regardless of the situation
Q2) Which of the following best describes why clinical areas are so careful to ensure sanitization of surfaces and equipment between each patient?
A) To avoid direct patient-to-patient transmission of infection
B) To provide a clean environment for clients and staff
C) To decrease transmission by fomites
D) To decrease transmission by vectors
Q3) 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)
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Chapter 26: Substance Abuse
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Q1) Which of the following is the drug of choice for treating persons with alcohol withdrawal?
A) Antabuse
B) Benzodiazepines
C) Methadone
D) Naltrexone
Q2) Which of the following best explains why anyone would ever experiment with an illegal substance?
A) As a way of rebelling against parental authority
B) Because it is forbidden
C) For the thrill of it-without getting caught
D) Friends are encouraging it
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 27: Violence
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Q1) A woman was seen in the emergency department with a greenstick broken arm and chest bruises. She explained she fell up a staircase at home while carrying laundry to the bedrooms. Besides assessing for other injuries, which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Ask about and educate regarding intimate partner violence (IPV)
B) Assess for use of alcohol or other drugs that might have been a causative factor in the fall
C) Get the patient an x-ray examination to determine location and severity of the break D) Immediately apply ice and immobilize in a sling
Q2) Which of the following best describes the incidence of abuse among pregnant women?
A) It is too difficult to determine the actual incidence of abuse among this population.
B) It is estimated that approximately 1 out of every 10 women experiences abuse.
C) Approximately one out of every six women has been abused by a partner.
D) Abuse does not occur among pregnant women.
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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) A friend who was raped and beaten appeared to be coping well. However, she recently dropped out of school and shared with the nurse that she is having nightmares where it happens all over again, and these nightmares are becoming impossible to live with. Which of the following would be the concern of the nurse?
A) A late psychological reaction of despair and hopelessness
B) Depression that no one rescued her and saved her from the traumatic event
C) Guilt and concern over what she could possibly have done to invite such an event
D) Posttraumatic stress syndrome disorder (PTSD)
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Chapter 29: School Health
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Q1) Which of the following health problems continues to increase in school-aged and adolescent children?
A) Contagious diseases
B) Obesity and related problems (diabetes)
C) Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
D) Stomach flu (viral gastroenteritis)
Q2) Which of the following best describes how schools can determine what their school health education priorities should include? (Select all that apply.)
A) Provide opportunities for students to practice decision-making skills
B) Choose priorities according to which behaviors lead to avoidable problems
C) Make priorities consistent with the six topics identified by Healthy People 2020
D) Determine priorities by the education and expertise of the local school nurse
E) Select priorities according to parent and student interests
F) Decide on priorities based on whatever funding sources are willing to fund
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Chapter 30: Occupational Health
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Q1) A nurse had 5 years of experience in a community health clinic when she accepted a position in occupational health. Which of the following best explains how the nurse will know what to do in this new setting?
A) On the basis of past experience, she can focus on relevant aspects and adapt protocols as deemed necessary
B) By focusing immediately on critical aspects and determining priorities in the setting
C) By following company procedures and relying on assessment checklists and clinical protocols
D) By using extensive previous experience, the nurse can grasp situations quickly and initiate appropriate action(s)
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) A correctional nurse was preparing to give an inmate his psychotropic drug when the prisoner hit the nurse's arm, sending the medication flying, and yelled, "No more. I'm not taking that poison anymore!" The prisoner is obviously mentally ill. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Inject the medication rather than debate taking the oral pill with the inmate
B) Recognize the prisoner's right to refuse treatment
C) Throw the medication away, obtain another pill, and try to persuade the prisoner to take the drug
D) Force the medication down the prisoner's throat with the assistance of two prison guards
Q2) With whom would the forensic nurse primarily interact during the day in addition to clients? (Select all that apply.)
A) Case managers
B) Officers of the court
C) Physicians
D) Police officers
E) Psychologists
F) Social workers
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Chapter 32: Faith Community Nursing
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Q1) A new faith community nurse (FCN) met with a client who was dying. The client asked the FCN to pray for her out loud. The FCN had an active prayer life, but privately-not out loud relating to someone else. Which of the following would be the best response by the nurse?
A) Deliberately misunderstand the request and promise to pray for the client when you are at home each evening
B) Look for a religious book nearby, open it, and hope there is something there the nurse can use
C) Offer to share the client's request with the faith community's leader, as well as ask the faith community to pray for the client
D) Share a traditional prayer that the nurse had previously memorized for personal use
Q2) Which of the following best describes when faith communities first began to be involved with health and healing?
A) In 1998, when parish nursing was first officially recognized
B) In the time of Jesus and similar religious leaders of the early years AD
C) Throughout history, faith communities provided basic health care
D) When parish nursing began in the Lutheran Church in the 1980s
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Chapter 33: Home Health and Hospice
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Q1) Which of the following created the original expansion of home health care agencies? (Select all that apply.)
A) Changes that decreased reimbursement for hospital-based care
B) Cost containment in a managed care environment
C) Meeting clients' preference for care in their homes, not institutions
D) Offering new career opportunities for nurses who are tired of hospital nursing
E) The requirement of third-party payers for care to be given in homes
F) So they could serve as a profitable revenue source
Q2) A nurse shared information with a family concerning a community resource, including a brochure with telephone number. The family agreed to follow up. Which of the following demonstrates to the nurse that the family wants to use those resources?
A) If the agency calls the nurse to share that they will be offering services to the family
B) If the family always agrees with the nurse's suggestions
C) If the family asks the nurse to please call and set up the service
D) If the family calls and sets up the service
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