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Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th E
Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th Editio
MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs.
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
ANS: A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is provided for “sic
where they live, work, and attend school. The emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision
coordinated, and continuous care. These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, pe
mental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and
focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems.
2. Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
ANS: D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health
promote the quality of life. All nurses may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill pers
setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
ANS: D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations rather
and families. The goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the co
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5. A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community. Which of t
would most likely be implemented by the nurse?
a. Provide free health care to all citizens
b. To increase the number of individuals with access to effective health care benefits
c. Lower the cost of health care to the American population
d. To lessen the governmental burden of providing health care to Americans
ANS: B
The central feature in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 are the mechanis
people with health insurance. The care provided is not necessarily free. While the cost of health care an
American government are serious concerns, they are not the primary focus of ACA.
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6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americans.
ANS: C
The major premise of Healthy People 2010 was that the health of the individual cannot be entirely sepa
larger community. Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the co
(resources) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The goal is to prevent disease and disabil
the health of the community as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively doe
exist in which people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morality
focus is on prevention of illness not on spending more on illness care. Additionally, individual respons
choices is the directive for lengthening life span not the role of the government.
7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a public health nurse?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to determine
needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
ANS: D
Although the public health nurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works primarily wit
to carry out core public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole and engagi
improving the environment. The interventions of asking community leaders which interventions should
community and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data from health care institutions do n
engagement of the community when making decisions about what the community actually wants and n
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a. A large group of persons
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. Another name for demographic group
ANS: C
An aggregate is defined a collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental charac
community can be defined in terms of either geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state)
children attending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population ma
with the term aggregate. A large group of persons, a collection of individuals and families, and anothe
group are not accurate definitions of the term aggregate.
10. Which question asked by a novice nurse would be the most reflective of an understanding of the role o
a. “Which groups are at the greatest risk for problems?”
b. “Which patients should I see first as I begin my day?”
c. “With which physicians will I be most closely collaborating?”
d. “With which nursing assistants will I partner the most?”
ANS: A
Asking which groups are at greatest risk reflects a community-oriented perspective. The incorrect respo
individuals rather than a community-oriented perspective.
11. Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available defines which of the core
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Assurance
d. Scientific knowledge-based care
ANS: C
Assurance includes making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available in the
does not fit the terms assessment, policy development. Scientific knowledge-based care is not a core fu
Assessment is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the population’s health status, a
available about the health of the community. Policy development refers to efforts to develop policies th
population, including using a scientific knowledge base to make policy decisions.
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12. When talking to a women’s group at the senior citizens’ center, the nurse reminded them that the only
to afford to provide transportation services for them would be for them to continue to write letters to th
representatives requesting funding for such a service. What was the nurse trying to accomplish through
a. Ensure that the women did not expect the nurse to solve their problem.
b. Demonstrate that the nurse understood the women’s concerns and needs.
c. Express empathy, support, and concern.
d. Help the women engage in political action.
ANS: D
Public health nurses engage themselves and others in policy development and encourage and assist per
needs to those with the power to take action. The nurse is demonstrating the role of advocate through t
merely understanding the women’s concern, and instead mobilizes them to take action. This action doe
showing empathy rather the nurse is empowering these women.
13. The public health nurse has a clear vision of what needs to be done and where to begin to improve the
Why would the nurse spend time meeting with community groups to discuss the most important task to
a. To increase the group’s self-esteem
b. To maintain communication links with the groups
c. To make the groups feel good about their contribution
d. To work with the groups, not for the groups
ANS: D
Historically, health care providers have been accused of providing care for or to people without actuall
the decisions. Public health nursing is a “with the people”—not a “to the people” or “for the people”—
is an imperative to work with members of the community to carry out core public health functions. The
community groups is not to increase their self-esteem or make them feel good about their contribution,
act for themselves to solve the problems they are facing. The first task of working with the group shoul
maintaining communication links.
14. The nurse often has to make resource allocation decisions. Which of the following best describes the cr
in such cases?
a. The specific moral or ethical principle related to the situation
b. The cheapest, most economical approach
c. The most rational probable outcome
d. The needs of the aggregate rather than a few individuals
ANS: D
The dominant needs of the population outweigh the expressed needs of one or a few people. All of the
components of a decision that the nurse might consider in determining the needs of the aggregate.
15. Which of the following actions best represents public health nursing?
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