NSG 3480: Community Health Unit 2, 3, 4
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Which statement best summarizes the importance of Lillian Wald's
achievements?
a. She suggested new nursing specialties.
b. She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
c. She gave expert clinical nursing care to her clients.
d. She was appointed a national nursing leader. - - correct answer
✅b. She demonstrated how to improve health in communities.
Which statement best describes the focus of macroscopic therapy
"thinking upstream"?
a. Modifying economic, political, and environmental factors
b. Preparing for nursing career long-term goals by planning now
c. Seeking causes of water and air pollution "upstream" from cities
d. Trying to understand how or why someone got ill - - correct
answer ✅a. Modifying economic, political, and environmental
factors
Which statement best describes a weakness of early nursing
theories?
,NSG 3480: Community Health Unit 2, 3, 4
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a. Many nurses did not know or understand the theoretical basis of
nursing practice.
b. Most nursing theories focused on microscopic individual
concerns.
c. The theories did not reflect the actual world of nursing practice.
d. The theories had global applicability to nursing practice. - -
correct answer ✅b. Most nursing theories focused on microscopic
individual concerns.
Which is the primary purpose of nursing theory?
a. To improve nursing practice
b. To demonstrate that nursing is a profession
c. To organize nursing knowledge
d. To serve as a basis for ongoing nursing research - - correct
answer ✅a. To improve nursing practice
A client did not attend the clinic for required follow-up care after his
extensive surgery. Using the Health Belief Model, which would be
the most appropriate conclusion for the nurse to make when a
,NSG 3480: Community Health Unit 2, 3, 4
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client does not attend the clinic for required follow-up care after his
extensive surgery?
a. The client is noncompliant.
b. The client is suffering from self-neglect.
c. The health care system is not meeting the client's perceived
needs.
d. The health care system is not accessible for the client.
e. The nurse has not motivated the client appropriately. - - correct
answer ✅c. The health care system is not meeting the client's
perceived needs.
Which assumption makes Orem's theory difficult to implement?
a. That nurses will always be caring for families and groups
b. That clients are able to control their environment
c. That clients recognize the need for nursing intervention
d. That teaching clients self-care is the primary goal of nursing
practice - - correct answer ✅b. That clients are able to control
their environment
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Which statement best describes the major assumption of the
Health Belief Model (HBM)?
a. People will act if action is both easy and convenient.
b. People will act if exposed to fear messages stressing their
vulnerability.
c. The major determinant of preventive health behavior is avoiding
disease.
d. The major determinant of preventive behavior is providing
proper health education. - - correct answer ✅c. The major
determinant of preventive health behavior is avoiding disease.
Which assumption of the Health Belief Model (HBM) is
problematic?
a. People have both free will and access to health resources.
b. People listen to the advice given by health care professionals.
c. People are influenced by health messages given over media
channels.
d. People make what they perceive as rational decisions in a given
situation. - - correct answer ✅a. People have both free will and
access to health resources.
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