Stanhope: Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 10th Edition
Chapter 06: Environmental Health
1. A public health
... [Show More] nurse has been recruited to lead a community environmental lead exposure reduction program. What action by this nurse is best?
a. Advocate for funding at the state and federal levels.
b. Create a multidisciplinary team to work on different aspects of the problem. c. Determine how other cities and counties have managed this problem.
d. Research the number of houses likely to contain lead-based paint.
2. An occupational health nurse is conducting employee toxic exposure histories at a dog food manufacturing plant. Using the
I PREPARE model, what question does the nurse ask?
a. Do you eat your lunch inside or outside the building?
b. Does your job include soldering any metals?
c. Have you ever served in the military?
d. What is the intensity of your exposure to chemicals?
3. A college health nurse is working to improve environmental air quality on campus. Using the precautionary principal, what action does the nurse take?
a. Develop a bike-rental program for students, staff, and faculty.
b. Install “smart thermostats” and motion-generated lights in buildings. c. Make the entire campus a smoke-free zone.
d. Raise the parking fees to discourage people from driving to campus.
4. Campaigns to decrease the inequitable burden of environmental risks on the poor and people of color in the United States strive to apply which ethical principle?
a. Societal justice b. Nonmaleficence
c. Beneficence
d. Environmental justice
5. A community health nurse manager has integrated exposure history elements into the assessment practices of the health department that are relevant to the urban industrial community served. This strategy indicates that the nurse manager is aware of the relationship between:
a. community strengths and weaknesses.
b. environment and human health/disease. c. toxicology studies and the environment.
d. federal and state environmental regulations.
6. A family with a small child lives in a home on a Brownfield site. What action does the public health nurse take when conducting a home visit?
a. Assess the child for meeting developmental milestones. b. Have the parent complete a 3-day food diary.
c. Request the child’s immunization records.
d. Watch the child during therapeutic play.
7. Monitoring and public reporting of air quality in a local community to assist individuals with asthma or other respiratory conditions best illustrates the application of:
a. compliance and enforcement. b. environmental epidemiology.
c. secondary prevention.
d. toxicology.
8. When applying the nursing process to environmental health, which action would the nurse take?
a. Conduct an assessment focused on a client’s presenting problem.
b. Coordinate interventions with the primary care provider of record.
c. Examine criteria that are limited to the client’s immediate responses.
d. Include outcome measures to mitigate and eliminate the contributing factors.
1. The role of the nurse who wants to become more active in environmental health could include which of the following?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Assessing farmworkers for pesticide exposure and providing pesticide risk education b. Conducting epidemiologic investigations as a public health nurse (PHN)
c. Developing corporate policy to protect workers from unsafe levels of toxic agents
d. Organizing the local community to encourage landlords to remove lead-based paint e. Working as a skilled risk communicator for a local chemical manufacturer
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