Public Health Nursing Study Guide
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Course Introduction
Public Health Nursing focuses on the promotion and protection of the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences. This course examines the roles and responsibilities of nurses in assessing community health needs, planning and implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes to improve the well-being of diverse groups. Topics include epidemiology, health education, disease prevention, policy development, and collaboration with other public health professionals. Students will explore strategies for addressing social determinants of health and reducing health disparities, preparing them to advocate for public health policies and provide care in a variety of community settings.
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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 would be the proper term for the action of the school health nurse arranging for all the students in the elementary school to receive H1N1 immunizations?
A) Health education
B) Secondary prevention
C) Specific protection
D) Tertiary prevention
Answer: C
Q2) Which task will be most helpful in meeting the public health agency's goals?
A) Complete staff evaluations in preparation for individual meetings to plan their agency and individual goals for the next year
B) Actively participate in community agencies' collaborative action plan to meet the community's health goals for the year
C) Meet with the college of nursing faculty to finalize student objectives and schedules for the next semester
D) Teach a free course in healthful living for community residents
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context
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Q1) Which of the following statements best describes the increase in life expectancy among Americans during the twentieth century?
A) Life expectancy increased by 30 years; the majority can be attributed to advances in medical technology.
B) Life expectancy increased by 30 years; the majority can be attributed to public health efforts.
C) Life expectancy increased by 30 years; the majority can be attributed to improved physician education.
D) Life expectancy increased by 30 years; the majority can be attributed to increased access to care.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following best describes the overall result of Abraham Flexner's report?
A) All medical schools reorganized into the German model.
B) Citizens were encouraged to become more involved in medical education.
C) Folk healers again became more widely used than physicians.
D) Funding was withdrawn from weak medical schools.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and
Population-Focused Nursing Practice
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Q1) A nurse is using Milio's framework to promote healthy eating choices among members of the community. Which of the following interventions would the nurse most likely implement?
A) Provide community education about healthy food choices
B) Promote legislation to increase taxation on unhealthy food choices
C) Lobby for health insurance providers to pay for participation in health promotion programs
D) Encourage community members to be responsible for making healthy choices
Answer: B
Q2) A nurse is using the critical theoretical perspective in daily nursing practice. Which of the following activities would the nurse most likely complete?
A) Criticize health insurance programs as a barrier to health care
B) Expose social values underlying the health care system
C) Promote individual freedom and decision making
D) Exert control over the client's environment
Answer: B
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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 asks a client how she has been sleeping. Which of the following best describes the rationale behind this question? (Select all that apply.)
A) Accidents and injury may occur with the sleep-deprived client at fault.
B) Interventions for sleep problems are primarily common sense.
C) Many adults report sleep problems or occasional lack of sleep.
D) Many important functions occur during sleep.
E) Nurses can determine whether the patient has a sleep disorder.
F) A sleep assessment is easy and inexpensive to complete.
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Chapter 5: Epidemiology
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Q1) When trying to determine whether the swine flu outbreak was getting worse, which of the following rates should be carefully observed?
A) The crude death rate
B) The age-specific death rate
C) The swine flu incidence rate
D) The swine flu prevalence rate
Q2) Which of the following best describes a model that demonstrates the progression of disease from prepathogenesis through disease outcome?
A) Epidemiological model
B) Ecosocial model
C) Natural history model
D) Wheel model
Q3) One famous study followed a cohort of nurses over their lives, collecting data and health histories as they aged. Which of the following would be the most appropriate categorization of this study?
A) Cross-sectional study
B) Prospective study
C) Retrospective study
D) True experiment
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Chapter 6: Community Assessment
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Q1) A public health nurse wanted statistics on the disability, illness, and other health-related variables for the state. Which of the following would be the best resource for the nurse to obtain the most extensive data?
A) State health department records
B) State department of vital statistics
C) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) The National Center for Health Statistics
Q2) Which of the following is a central function unique to community health nursing? (Select all that apply.)
A) Being willing to travel to give care in an appropriate setting
B) Collaborating and cooperating with other health care team members
C) Gathering appropriate comprehensive assessment data on the community
D) Incorporating epidemiological approaches throughout the nursing process
E) Keeping accurate and detailed medical records on care given
F) Being willing to contribute to health policy development
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Chapter 7: Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
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Q1) Which of the following best describes a flaw of many of the health care bills passed during the last four decades?
A) They avoided interfering with the current health care approach and did not improve problems of access or duplication of efforts.
B) They encouraged each state to do what was best for its residents without consideration of what was best for the nation as a whole.
C) They created new layers of bureaucracy in health care administration.
D) They did not include financing to pay for the suggested changes.
Q2) 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
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Chapter 8: Community Health Education
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Q1) Which of the following factors is found in the Health Belief Model (HBM) but not in Pender's Health Promotion Model (HPM)?
A) Individual perception
B) Likelihood of action
C) Personal threat as motivator
D) Self-efficacy
Q2) A nurse is trying to determine a client's reading level. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Ask the client if he/she finds it useful to have someone help when receiving written materials from the physician.
B) Ask the client to assess his or her own health literacy and give examples.
C) Determine the number of years of formal education the client completed.
D) Use a literacy assessment tool, many of which are in the literature.
Q3) Which of the following best describes the goal of participatory action research?
A) Analytical epidemiological findings
B) Careful descriptive research studies
C) Experimental studies using both experimental and control groups
D) Social change resulting from stakeholders' strategies
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Chapter 9: Case Management
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Q1) Which of the following are considered core functions of a case manager? (Select all that apply.)
A) Assessment and diagnosis of client needs
B) Planning and facilitation of client care needs
C) Giving direct client care as needed
D) Advocating for the client
E) Obtaining needed resources and funding for the client
F) Submitting appropriate forms to involved agencies for the client
Q2) Which of the following has the largest influence on the case manager's role?
A) Criteria of the program for accepting clients
B) Location of the program
C) Population served by the program
D) The specific program that employs the case manager
Q3) Which of the following elderly persons are often the targets of case management?
A) Those who are homebound and have multiple complex problems
B) Those who live alone without close relatives
C) Those who show clear evidence of mental and physical decline
D) Those with chronic long-term health problems needing pharmaceutical intervention
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Chapter 10: Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community
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Q1) An individual has been terminated from his job and has lost his health insurance. Which of the following federal laws allows him to continue his insurance benefits for a specified period of time?
A) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
B) Family Support Act of 1988
C) Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 (HMO)
D) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
Q2) Which of the following best describes what is being discussed in relation to concerns over patients' safety and nurse fatigue?
A) All hospitals are now required to report errors made that are a result of low nurse staffing.
B) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is monitoring the incidence of medical errors caused by nurse understaffing.
C) The Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act was passed by Congress in 2013.
D) Legislation has been suggested that staffing systems require the input of direct care registered nurses.
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Chapter 11: The Health Care System
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the effect of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry report (1999)?
A) Created improvement in both physician and nurse educational programs
B) Demonstrated the incredible influence on health care made by the insurance industry
C) Increased national interest in improving health care and seeking reform
D) Stimulated the Institute of Medicine to explore quality in more depth
Q2) Which of the following suggestions was made by the Health Professions Education report?
A) Expand efforts to increase enrollment in nursing education programs.
B) Interdisciplinary teams should use informatics to provide patient-centered care.
C) Primary care should be emphasized over education for specialty practice.
D) All health professions should be required to communicate and collaborate in patient education.
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Chapter 12: Economics of Health Care
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Q1) Which of the following actions would be the least expensive approach to treating chronic diseases?
A) Choose healthy lifestyle behaviors to retain health
B) Continue media campaigns encouraging early detection and treatment
C) Encourage patients to seek care at a local neighborhood health clinic
D) Suggest self-therapies that have been demonstrated to be effective
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes an unfortunate consequence of using diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) to determine reimbursement? (Select all that apply.)
A) Insurance companies had to greatly increase their funding from employers.
B) The incentive was to undertreat and underuse health resources.
C) Health care providers had to accept losses for each patient treated.
D) Health care providers learned to cheat the system.
E) Health care providers refused to accept more patients whose reimbursement was based on DRGs.
F) High quality of care was no longer assured.
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Chapter 13: Cultural Diversity and Community Health
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Q1) At a military base, a family from Qatar, a Muslim Arabic country, came in to the prenatal clinic because the wife believed she was pregnant. Which of the following providers would be the most appropriate choice for this client?
A) A male obstetrician, expert in high-risk pregnancies
B) The female nurse midwife
C) The male obstetrician with a female nurse always in the room with the wife
D) Whichever provider was on duty until the pregnancy was confirmed
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes how the population of the United States is changing?
A) Growth will occur because of a decrease in the death rate.
B) Growth will occur because of ongoing immigration.
C) Growth will occur because of an increase in the birth rate.
D) Growth will occur because of lengthening of the normal life span.
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) 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?"
Q2) The local stream was full of trash. The Boy Scouts had a cleanup day so they could again canoe on the stream. Which of the following actions should be taken by nurses in the local community?
A) Hold a dialogue with community members about the problem and its effects
B) Fight for stronger "do not trash" laws and harsher penalties
C) Lecture community organizations about the value of safe water for recreation
D) Put all personal trash in appropriate trash receptacles
Q3) Which of the following best describes a food desert?
A) The inability to store foods at an acceptable temperature
B) The inability to have healthy foods at home
C) A neighborhood with little to no access to healthy foods
D) A neighborhood that has experienced a recent food-borne illness
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Chapter 15: Health in the Global Community
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Q1) Which of the following nongovernmental groups has been expending millions of dollars to reduce the impact of infectious diseases with profound effect on prevention and treatment for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria?
A) Carter Center
B) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
C) Families for Freedom Foundation
D) Bradley Foundation
Q2) Which of the following actions has been most effective in reducing HIV infections in some countries?
A) ABC campaign
B) Free HIV immunizations
C) Religious leaders stressing abstinence or faithfulness in monogamous marriages
D) Public health workers distributing free condoms
Q3) Which of the following groups makes up about 30% of the world's population?
A) Children
B) Elderly
C) Teenaged adolescents
D) Caucasians
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Chapter 16: Child and Adolescent Health
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Q1) A nurse is caring for a woman, who has just found out she is pregnant. The woman begins crying and says, "But I'm not trying to get pregnant!" Should this response by the woman be concerning to the nurse?
A) No, because women may not consciously be aware of an unconscious desire to be a mother
B) No, because about half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended
C) No, because she admitted having unprotected sexual intercourse
D) Yes, because pregnancy can usually be avoided by appropriate precautions
Q2) A mother explained that she had just dropped her 3-year-old off at her own mother's so she could come in for the required examination for her new job. She excitedly shared her hopes that she would be able to afford a used car rather than having to ride a bus all the time. Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "I'm sure the exam won't show any problems. I'm so excited for you."
B) "Don't forget to buy a child's seat when you get your car."
C) "How do you think your child will adapt to you being at work all day?"
D) "It's fantastic that you have a new job in this rough economy. Will your mother be able to continue to babysit?"
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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) "I don't want to listen to another lecture on safe sex. Just give me my antibiotic and let me leave," said a defiant client. Which of the following would be the best response by the nurse?
A) "As you wish. But can you tell me why you still engage in unprotected sex?"
B) "Gonorrhea is becoming resistant to antibiotics. It's becoming difficult to treat you, and permanent damage to your body is occurring."
C) "Our policy requires that we review how to protect yourself even if you have heard the information before."
D) "These recurrent infections are damaging you inside; please consider using condoms."
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Chapter 18: Mens Health
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Q1) 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?"
Q2) Which of the following strategies would be most helpful to implement with adolescent males at a high school? (Select all that apply.)
A) A short required course on how to be a good parent
B) Assistance in learning how to control emotions and behaviors
C) Classes in male physiology, self-screenings, and influence of nutrition and exercise
D) Encouragement to be involved in organized team sports involving both genders
E) Recognition of reality factors such as the need to be employed after school hours
F) Interpersonal communication with a male school nurse
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Chapter 19: Senior Health
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Q1) A woman admitted, "I did fall once, but it was an accident that I'm sure won't happen again." Which of the following responses would be most appropriate for the nurse? (Select all that apply.)
A) "Are you getting lots of calcium and vitamin D? Are you drinking milk or taking calcium pills?"
B) "Do you have a couple glasses of wine each evening to relax you before you go to bed?"
C) "Do you live in a one-story house and are your floors even without rugs to trip you up?"
D) "Let me give you some balance and leg muscle exercises to practice at home each day."
E) "Remember that if you start to fall, fall sideways if you can to minimize injury."
F) "Review what medications you are taking."
Q2) Which of the following is the primary source of income for elderly Americans?
A) Employment income
B) Pensions
C) Savings
D) Social Security
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Chapter 20: Family Health
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Q1) A man had been in an extended-care facility for five weeks and was now home. His wife tells the nurse, "He's trying to take up where he left off but we've adapted to not having him home. He keeps thinking things will be just as they were when he left, but they aren't." Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "Are the changes making him uncomfortable or are the rest of you uncomfortable?"
B) "Do you want me to talk to him and try to explain?"
C) "How can we make things as they were before he left?"
D) "You all adapted to running the house without him; it will be challenging now to adapt back."
Q2) Which of the following is an appropriate conclusion to draw from research based on network therapy theory?
A) Nurses can help at-risk populations access or build support systems.
B) Problems in our health care system are worsened by specialization and fragmentation.
C) Social class places limitations on access to health care.
D) The family is culturally anchored in American beliefs.
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Chapter 21: Populations Affected by Disabilities
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Q1) Which of the following concerns can a nurse as a citizen help address?
A) Advocating for removal of environmental and social barriers to needed services
B) Continuing to engage in political action to increase funding for care for the handicapped
C) Recognizing that it is better to offer to help than to wait for a person with handicaps to have to ask for assistance
D) Needing to not stare or ask personal questions of a person with a disability
Q2) Which of the following best describes the problem with the viewing disability based on the Nagi model?
A) Functional limitations are used to determine if an individual is disabled.
B) Functional limitations are not easily objectified and measured.
C) The model does not distinguish between genetic limitations and limitations imposed by injury or illness.
D) Persons are or are not limited according to choices they make.
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Chapter 22: Homeless Populations
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Q1) Which of the following groups of people is most likely to experience homelessness?
A) Those who have a supportive family
B) Those who have recently become unemployed
C) Those who have substance abuse problems
D) Those who frequently change jobs
Q2) 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.
Q3) Which of the following best describes the term "literally homeless"? (Select all that apply.)
A) Lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence
B) Lacking a family residence
C) Living in a place not typically used for human sleeping
D) Living in a temporary living accommodation such as a hotel
E) Living full-time in a recreational vehicle
F) Sleeping in an extended-care facility or hospital
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Chapter 24: Populations Affected by Mental Illness
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Q1) Which of the following mental illnesses is most frequently diagnosed among adults in the United States?
A) Acute stress disorder
B) Bipolar disorder
C) Depression
D) Schizophrenia
Q2) Which of the following was required by the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008?
A) That alcoholism be recognized as a disease and treatment be given in residential facilities
B) That drug addiction be accepted as a mental health diagnosis and addicts be treated rather than jailed when caught
C) That health insurance must cover treatment for mental illness on the same terms and conditions as physical illness
D) That community clinics must treat clients for mental illness just as they treat prisoners who have a physical illness
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Chapter 25: Communicable Disease
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Q1) During an outbreak in the hospital, all staff members were given immunoglobulin if they were not already immune to the disease. Which of the following types of immunity will the staff who received the immunoglobulin have?
A) Active immunity
B) Long-lasting immunity
C) Natural immunity
D) Passive immunity
Q2) 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 woman was bragging about her 12-year-old son who was quiet and spent a lot of his time in his room building model airplanes, gluing and painting pieces. Which of the following may be concerning to the nurse?
A) Being preadolescent, he needs education on sexual growth and development.
B) He may be inhaling fumes from the aerosol paints and glues.
C) Twelve-year-olds are not usually quiet; he needs a mental health consult.
D) Twelve-year-olds need physical exercise, and he is not getting any sitting around.
Q2) Which of the following best explains why experts are now distinguishing between use and misuse?
A) It is easier to discuss use than to accuse persons of being drug addicts.
B) Expansion of drug treatment programs has prevented some people from becoming totally addicted.
C) Persons using prescription drugs are "users," not "misusers."
D) Some persons may use drugs and not become dependent on them.
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Chapter 27: Violence
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Q1) Where is youth violence most likely to occur?
A) At home
B) At recreational facilities
C) In inner city schools
D) In fast-food facilities where young adults are employed
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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Chapter 28: Natural and Man-Made Disasters
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Q1) A man walked to the staging area after an earthquake crying that he was hurt. A triage nurse noted he had cuts, abrasions, and an open (bone was seen) fractured arm. Which of the following actions should be taken next?
A) Put a green tag on his shirt and he can get in line to wait his turn for medical treatment
B) Put a yellow tag on his shirt and then await transport to a medical facility
C) Put a black tag on his shirt and give him a chair to rest in until something can be done
D) Put a green tag on his shirt and ask him to use his good arm to help others make it to the staging area
Q2) Which of the following steps should the nurse take first when triaging a victim of a disaster?
A) Assess mental status
B) Assess perfusion
C) Assess respirations
D) Assess blood pressure
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Chapter 29: School Health
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Q1) 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
Q2) The school nurse only had the resources for one education program for all the schools' teachers and support staff. Which of the following topics would be the most important to address in this program?
A) Asthma
B) Diabetes
C) Epilepsy
D) Measles and mumps
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Chapter 30: Occupational Health
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Q1) If not at a meeting or giving an educational program, which of the following best describes why an occupational health nurse (OHN) would be absent from the health station during the nurse's employment hours?
A) The nurse is reviewing position descriptions in the main company office.
B) The nurse is in the management office to use the company computer.
C) The nurse planned a walk-through of the workplace.
D) The nurse is taking a quick bathroom break.
Q2) Which of the following best explains why occupational health nurses (OHNs) felt a need to create the Factory Nurses Conference?
A) All the other specialties in nursing had created their own conferences and groups.
B) Creating their own group would be less expensive to maintain membership than joining the American Nurses Association (ANA).
C) Funding was made available by large employers for the nurses to meet.
D) Most OHNs practiced alone and wanted to be able to interact with peers.
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Chapter 31: Forensic and Correctional Nursing
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Q1) The legal nurse consultant (LNC) was asked to submit an affidavit to both the prosecutor's and the defendant's office. Which of the following information needs to be included?
A) List of all literature reviewed in preparation for being paid as an expert witness
B) Notarized signature on a summary of the LNC's education and clinical experience
C) Summary of nurse's educational and experiential credentials and an analysis of the case
D) An opinion under oath as to what happened in the crime situation
Q2) Which of the following describes a responsibility of the forensic psychiatric nurse?
A) Assisting with the deposition
B) Collecting evidence to be used in future legal proceedings
C) Judging intent or diminished capacity of the client during the incident
D) Preparing to testify in court
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Chapter 32: Faith Community Nursing
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Q1) A nurse was a volunteer in a faith community when a police officer asked for specific information related to a member's behavior and mental health. The faith community nurse (FCN) told the police officer, "I'm a part-time volunteer; I'm not paid. Besides, I have client-professional privileges so I can't share information with you." Which of the following will most likely be the outcome of this encounter?
A) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will require the nurse to maintain confidentiality.
B) The matter will be referred to the faith community leader for resolution.
C) The nurse is still accountable and has no legal right not to disclose information requested by a legal authority.
D) The police officer will have to accept the nurse's refusal to share information.
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 best explains the purpose of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)?
A) To analyze the cost-effectiveness of health agencies
B) To evaluate and improve clinical performance quality
C) To measure and publicize hospital data on outcomes such as death rates
D) To survey patient satisfaction with care received from health agencies
Q2) A client was admitted to home care and was dismayed to find the nurse discussing such uncomfortable topics as advance directives, living will, and durable power of attorney. Which of the following is the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "Don't be concerned; this is just routine."
B) "I'm sorry, but the state law says I have to ask you to fill out these forms."
C) "You get to make decisions about your care, but if, for any reason, you can't do this, these forms will tell us what you want us to do."
D) "Your physician asked us to discuss these with you."
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