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1. The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must ap- a) Individual; pop-
proach a public health problem with an understand- ulation
ing of the related underlying risk factors in order to
develop effective nursing interventions. He must also
consider that these risk factors can be either ______
based or ______ based.
a) Epidemic; population
b) Disease; individual
c) Individual; population
d) Intervention; government
2. If the international medical community was working d) All of the above
to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would
look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which
is:
a) Working to improve health and well being for the
global population
b) The public health arm of the united nations
c) Working with nurses to promote public health inter-
ventions
d) All of the above
3. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, c) Prevention
The Future of the Public's Health, that there are three
core functions that society carries out to collectively
support the optimum conditions for public health.
Which one of the following is not one of these func-
tions?
a) Assessment
b) Assurance
c) Prevention
d) Policy development
4. With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable a) Heart disease
(chronic) illness. The PHN recognizes that an exam-
ple of a noncommunicable illness is:
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a) Heart disease
b) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
c) HIV
d) Hepatitis
5. The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially d) Social and eco-
the product of a limited access to full service gro- nomic policies
cery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for
exercise. This is an example of issues related to the
"upstream" determinants of public health that con-
tribute to the ecology of a community's health "down-
stream." The PHN understands that upstream deter-
minants include social relations, neighborhoods and
communities, institutions, and ____.
a) Tertiary nursing interventions
b) Availability of medicine to treat disease
c) Increasing the number of primary care provider
d) Social and economic policies
6. A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community d) Ensure ac-
participation in an ecological public health system. countability
She teaches that the benefits of this collaboration for
participants in the community's public health are that
their efforts increase effectiveness and productivity,
empower the participants, strengthen social engage-
ment, and ____.
a) Increase the number of medical facilities
b) Decrease disease rates
c) Monitor childhood illnesses
d) Ensure accountability
7. Which layer of government is responsible for issu- b) Local
ing quarantines during a communicable disease out-
break?
a)State
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b) Local
c) Federal
d) All of the above
8. The nursing student is taught correctly that local c) Licensing of lo-
health departments do not oversee which of the fol- cal hospitals
lowing?
a) The surveillance of disease
b) Public sanitation and water supply
c) Licensing of local hospitals
d) Investigation of disease outbreaks
9. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epi- a) Social and be-
demiology, biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and havioral sciences
______ form the foundational subjects of public
health.
a) Social and behavioral sciences
b) The humanities
c) Anthropology
d) economics
10. If a PHN meets the PHN Core Competencies, he or she a) Work with cor-
should be able to do which of the following? Select porations to cre-
all that apply ate an emergency
response program
a) Work with corporations to create an emergency to bioterrorism
response program to bioterrorism d) Understand the
b) Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the dietary restrictions
budget of new immigrants
c) Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is e) Develop policy
none for handling a local
d) Understand the dietary restrictions of new immi- quarantine
grants
e) Develop policy for handling a local quarantine
11. In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a c) Increasing ac-
plan to increase the number of Americans who are cess to care
healthy at every stage of life. Which of the following
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is not one of the strategic directions included in the
strategy?
a) Eliminating health disparities
b) Building healthy and safe community efforts
c) Increasing access to care
d) Empowering people to make healthy choices
12. A nursing student is studying the seven priorities of b) Assisting
the National Prevention Strategy. The student correct- low-income fami-
ly identifies which one of the following interventions lies to sign up for
as not reflecting any of the seven priorities in this health-care insur-
plan? ance
a) Conducting a smoking cessation clinic
b) Assisting low-income families to sign up for
health-care insurance
c) Providing nutrition classes which offer weekly
fill-in guides for grocery shopping
d) Building a health and exercise center in a hospital
near the physical and occupational therapy areas
13. If a nurse is using the natural history of a disease b) Studying the
to help develop a primary prevention program for a continuum of the
specific disease, he or she would begin with: disease with a fo-
cus on the disease
a) Making sure that everyone in a certain area re- free state.
ceives treatment.
b) Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus
on the disease free state.
c) Looking at screening tools for identifying person
who may have the disease.
d) Going to the autopsies of the patients who have
died.
14. When a health-care provider offers nutritional health b) Downstream
teaching on portions, patterns, and choices, he or she
is using which type of approach?
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