Community Health Nursing Exam 2
Questions and Answers
primary prevention - Answer-to keep illness from occurring, hand rails, immunizations
secondary prevention - Answer-efforts to detect and treat existing health problems.
Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test; to intervene to control or eradicate
the problem
tertiary prevention - Answer-attempts to reduce the extent and severity of health
problems so as to minimize disability and restore or reserve function: rehab after CVA.
tertiary prevention - Answer-someone that has an eating disorder, following up with
counseling
treatment of disorders - Answer-focuses on illness by: direct service, indirect service,
development of programs to correct unhealthy conditions
indirect service - Answer-referring to someone, calling another professional to help
solve problem for client
rehab - Answer-efforts to reduce disability and restore function as much as possible
evaluation - Answer-process by which the practice is analysis, judged, and improved
according to established goals and standards
research - Answer-investigation to discover facts affecting community health and
community health practice, solve problems, and explore improved methods of health
science
healthy people 2010 - Answer-increase quality and years of life, eliminate health
disparities
healthy people 2010 - Answer-emphasis on community partnerships,
determinant of health - Answer-biology
determinant of health - Answer-behavior
determinant of health - Answer-social & physical environment
determinant of health - Answer-polices and interventions
, community health status - Answer-health of total population
community health status - Answer-measured by birth and death rates, morbidity
statistics
healthy people 2010 indicators - Answer-physical activity, obesity, tobacco use,
substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury and violence, environmental
quality, immunization, access to healthcare
core public health functions - Answer-assessment, policy development, assurance
role of community health nurse - Answer-clinician, educator, advocate, collaborator,
leader, researcher, case manager
clinician - Answer-most familiar role, ensures health services are provided
educator / teacher - Answer-client is not acutely ill, so can absorb information better,
wide audience can be reached
advocate - Answer-2 goals: help clients gain greater independence or self
determination; make the system more responsible and relevant to the needs of clients.
Every client has the right to receive just, equal and humane treatment
collaborator - Answer-work jointly with others, need communication skills
leader - Answer-focuses on change, nurse becomes an agent of change, influence
people to think and behave differently about their health
researcher - Answer-evidence based practice, systematic investigation, collection, and
analysis of data for solving problems and enhancing community heath practice
case manager - Answer-has become the standard method of managing health care in
delivery systems in US. Evaluates progress to ensure that clients' multiple service
needs are met in a cost-effective manner.
settings for community health nursing practice - Answer-homes, ambulatory services,
schools, occupations health settings, hospice, parish, forensics, corrections (prison)
ambulatory service settings - Answer-community health centers, clinics, day care
centers, health departments, services for select groups such as migrant camps, native
american reservations, correctional facilities, parishes
early home care nursing - Answer-religious and charitable groups, during industrial
revolution
3 shared commonalities - Answer-geographic, common interest, community of solution
