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TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR
POPULATION HEALTH IN
COMMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH
NURSING 6TH EDITION BY
STANHOPE

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Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Heal
Edition


MULTIPLE CHOICE

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
provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, a
The emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of compre
coordinated, and continuous care. These nurses may be generalists or
maternal–infant, pediatric, adult, or psychiatric mental health nursi
nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and families
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 dise
ANS: D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving,
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of l
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons wi
setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitio
to community-oriented nursing.

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
populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goa
disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the co
population within it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illn
of individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manag
health conditions in the community, and the focus of practice is on i
family-centered illness care.

4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in lif
the 20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
ANS: C

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The central feature in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
the mechanisms to increase the number of people with health insurance
is not necessarily free. While the cost of health care and the burden
American government are serious concerns, they are not the primary fo
6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relat
efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of t
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Ame
ANS: C
The major premise of Healthy People 2010 was that the health of the i
entirely separate from the health of the larger community. Public hea
focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the community’
(resources) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The g
disease and disability and promote and protect the health of the comm
Public health can be described as what society collectively does to e
conditions exist in which people can be healthy. The basic assumption
do not judge the morality of health disparities. The focus is on prev
not on spending more on illness care. Additionally, individual respon
healthy choices is the directive for lengthening life span not the ro
government.

7. Which of the following actions would most likely be performed by a pub
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
needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the en
ANS: D
Although the public health nurse might engage in any of the tasks lis
works primarily with members of the community to carry out core publi
including assessment of the population as a whole and engaging in pro
improving the environment. The interventions of asking community lead
interventions should be chosen, assessing the community and deciding
interventions, and using data from health care institutions do not de
engagement of the community when making decisions about what the comm
wants and needs.

8. Which public health nurse most clearly fulfills the responsibilities o
a. The nurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreat
b. The nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health a
c. The nurse who talked to several people about their particular heal
d. The nurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable tele
ANS: B
Any of these descriptions might represent a nurse communicating, coop
collaborating with community residents or groups about health concern
challenge for the future is the need for public health nursing specia
aggressive in working collaboratively with various groups in the comm
professional colleagues in institutional settings to deal with barrie

However, the nurse who spent the day attending meetings of various he

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