Jennifer is a community health nurse in a large metropolitan area. According to the American
Nurses Association's Code of Ethics (2001), community health
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with public health programs that promote and preserve the health of populations by influencing:
sociocultural issues.
After a suprapubic prostatectomy, a client's plan of care will include the prevention of
postoperative deep vein thrombosis. The nurse recalls that this can be achieved best by
increasing the:
Velocity of the venous return
For which clinical indicator should a nurse monitor a client with end-stage renal disease?
Azotemia
Mary is a nursing student doing her senior project in community health. Part of her assignment is
to conduct an activity that illustrates "social health" within a group in her community. The most
appropriate activity for Mary to organize would be a:
food bank in a local church.
It has been estimated that individual behaviors and environmental factors are responsible for
what percentage of all premature deaths in the United States?
50%
Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in addressing health
and disease in the immigrant community by:
supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant
families.
Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the effects of disease. An example
of primary disease prevention is:
administering vaccines to children before kindergarten
Every 10 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes a national
prevention initiative titled Healthy People. One of the new objectives for Healthy People 2020 is
to:
improve the nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major health
incident.
Which of the following is an example of "community health nursing" rather than "communitybased nursing"?
An RN reviewing school clinic records to determine which children are not up to date on their
immunizations
Which of the following entities strives to improve the health of all the public by promoting
healthy lifestyles, preventing disease and injury, and protecting the health of communities?
Public health system
A variety of health indicators are used by health providers, policy makers, and community health
nurses to measure the health of the community. Indicators that illustrate the health status of a
community and may be useful in analyzing health patterns over time include: (Select all that
apply.)
morbidity
mortality
life expectansy
cancer incidence rates
Public health efforts focus on prevention and promotion of population health. The local level of
the health care system provides direct services to community members through community and
personal health services. An example of a health service that targets the larger community, rather
than individuals, is: (Select all that apply.)
a mobile immunization clinic.
condemning or repairing unsafe housing.
airing a weekly public service announcement to remind women to do breast self-examination.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the "thinking upstream" model of
community health nursing practice?
It focuses the nurse on short-term, individual-based nursing interventions.
A microscopic approach to the community health problem of childhood obesity would focus on:
asking an obese child and his or her parent(s) to complete a 24-hour food diary.
Which of the following theories is based on the assumption that individual needs and related
activities are the focus of nursing care?
Orem's self-care deficit theory
A community health nurse explores a group of teenagers' beliefs about the seriousness of eating
disorders and their related susceptibility. The nurse is applying principles from which theory?
The health belief model
A major limitation of the health belief model is that the burden of action related to health
behaviors is exclusively on the aggregate.
False
The belief that health deficits result from an imbalance between the population's health needs and
its health-sustaining resources is the premise of which theory?
Milio's framework
The community health nurse is teaching a prenatal class and includes the societal cost of fetal
alcohol syndrome in one of the educational sessions. The nurse is demonstrating an
understanding of:
critical theoretical perspective
Which of the following nurse leaders formulated the first theory-based conceptual model for
nursing care?
Florence Nightingale
Using theory to guide community health nursing practice serves to: (Select all that apply.)
guide data collection and interpretation in a clear and organized manner
improve community health nursing practice
focus the student on factors that are critical to understanding the situation
The use of theory in population-focused community health nursing encourages which of the
following? (Select all that apply.)
A proactive approach to care
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