Exam 2: NUR206/ NUR 206 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Community Nursing Concepts Exam | Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade–
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QUESTION
The rural health nurse is assessing a migrant worker who works in the fields picking oranges and various other fruits who presents to the clinic complaining of low back pain radiating down the left posterior thigh. The nurse should ask the client if the pain is worsened or aggravated by which factor?
a. Bending or lifting.
b. Application of heat.
c. Bed rest.
d. Ibuprofen.
Answer:
a. Bending or lifting.
QUESTION
An occupational health nurse at a local factory is using primary prevention strategies to reduce the environmental health risks among the employees. Which of the following activities would the nurse most likely implement?
a. Hearing screening for employees.
b. Teaching new employees about signs and symptoms or heat related illness.
c. Using spirometry to rule lung disease for workers wearing respirators.
d. Irrigating the eyes of an employee who has a chemical splash in the face.
Answer:
b. Teaching new employees about signs and symptoms or heat related illness.
QUESTION
A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, she comes asks for advice from the community health nurse. Which of the following data should the nurse know to answer the woman when asked "what are the chances I will survive this cancer?"
a. Cause-specific morbidity rate.
b. Crude mortality rate.
c. Case fatality rate.
d. Attack rate.
Answer:
c. Case fatality rate.
QUESTION
A family is concerned about the medical bills of their father, aged 63, who is unemployed and has almost no savings. Which of the following statements by the nurse accurately explains how Medicaid and Medicare would work in this family's situation? Select all that apply.
a. "Your father must be homebound to qualify for Medicare assistance but less so for Medicaid."
b. "Choose any physician and just show them your Medicare or Medicaid card."
c. "All your father's medical bills will be paid by whichever program is appropriate."
d. "Medicare is a federally funded program, but Medicaid is administered by your state."
Answer:
d. "Medicare is a federally funded program, but Medicaid is administered by your state."
QUESTION
Which of the following is the primary focus of hospice care?
a. Teaching the client and family how to care for themselves.
b. Curing the client's chronic disease.
c. Providing palliative care to provide and maintain comfort until death.
d. Decreasing the cost of hospital resources.
Answer:
c. Providing palliative care to provide and maintain comfort until death.
QUESTION
The nurse who works at a homeless clinic want to improve healing of chronic wounds in clients living on the streets. Which of the following would be the best action to take to improve client outcomes?
a. Hand out free bandaging supplies following each clinic visit.
b. Offer daily access to a room with soap, water, and bandages.
c. Provide antibiotics to all homeless persons with chronic non-healing wounds.
d. Perform regular monitoring of the client's wound condition.
Answer:
b. Offer daily access to a room with soap, water, and bandages.
QUESTION
A school health nurse is conducting drug screening to detect drug use by students before problems develop. Which of the following levels of prevention does this action represent?
a. Tertiary prevention.
b. Primary prevention.
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