Test Bank For Community & Public Health Nursing- Promoting the Public's Health by Allender , Judith 8th edition
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Test Bank For Community & Public Health Nursing- Promoting the Public's Health by Allender , Judith 8th editionTest Bank For Community & Public Health Nursing- Promoting the Public's Health by Allender , Judith 8th editionTest Bank For Community & Public Health Nursing- Promoting the Public's Healt...
1. A group of students are reviewing the various historical events associated with the
evolution of community health nursing in preparation for a test. They identify the time
from 1970 to the present as the era known as community health nursing based on the
understanding that which of the following influences contributed most to this change?
A) The settings and the nurses delivering health care in the community
B) Decisions made by the American Nurses Association
C) Decisions made by physicians in a variety of community settings
D) The demand to eliminate the word “public” from health services
Ans: A
Feedback:
The numbers, increasing variety of settings, and many nurses coming to work in the
community settings since the 1970s have contributed most significantly to the change.
As a result, professional associations supported the broader term of community health
nursing. Physician decisions played no role in the change. The term public health
nursing still remains.
2. Before the mid-1800s, early home care nursing was best recognized by which of the
following?
A) Technical advances with the Industrial Revolution making major changes
B) Care provided by family members, friends, and religious groups in the home
C) Accomplishments stemming from the work of Florence Nightingale
D) Formal organization of visiting nursing to provide care to the sick poor
Ans: B
Feedback:
Before the mid-1800s, early home care was characterized by care of the sick in the
home by family members, friends, and religious groups. Technical advances came after
1850, as did the work of Florence Nightingale and the formal organization of visiting
nurses to provide care to the sick poor.
3. Community health nursing has a long history of contributing to the health of
populations. Which of the following forms of service would the nurse identify as being
most recent?
A) Voluntary home nursing care for the sick poor via district nursing
B) Care provided termed public health nursing
C) Lay and religious groups providing care to the sick poor in their homes
D) Focus on populations with community health nursing seen as a specialty field
Ans: D
Feedback:
The four stages of community health nursing followed from lay and religious groups
providing care in the early years before 1850, the more specialized “health nurses” or
district nursing after the mid-1800s, concern for the health of the general public from
1900s to 1970, and finally community health nursing as a specialty with a focus on
populations since 1970.
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, 4. Which factor was the most significant feature associated with district nursing?
A) Caring for the sick
B) Teaching hygiene and cleanliness
C) Preventing illness
D) Gathering statistical data
Ans: B
Feedback:
Although district nurses primarily cared for the sick, they also taught cleanliness and
wholesome living to their clients. This early emphasis on prevention and health became
one of the distinguishing features of district nursing and later of public health nursing.
Preventing illness and gathering statistical data were key contributions of Florence
Nightingale during the Crimean War of the early 1850s.
5. In their early stages, district nursing was sponsored by which of the following?
A) Religious organizations
B) Private philanthropy
C) Contributions
D) Public funding
Ans: A
Feedback:
Early district nursing services were founded by religious organizations that served as
their sponsors. Later sponsorship shifted to private philanthropy. Funding came from
contributions and fees charged to clients on an ability-to-pay basis. Finally, visiting
nursing began to be supported by public money.
6. Which of the following would characterize the public health stage of community health
nursing?
A) Voluntary health agencies emphasizing disease prevention
B) Family considered as the primary unit of care
C) Service provision to the sick poor population
D) Primary health care as the key to health for all
Ans: B
Feedback:
The public health nursing stage was characterized by service to the public, with the
family targeted as a primary unit of care. Official health agencies, which placed a
greater emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion, provided the chief
institutional base. Primary health care as the key to health for all characterizes the
community health nursing stage.
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