COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING Part 2 available resources within the
community.
1. Which is the primary goal of D. Priority setting is based on the
community health nursing? magnitude of the health problems
A. To support and supplement the efforts of identified.
the medical profession in the promotion of
health and prevention of illness Answer: A. The service is provided in
B. To enhance the capacity of individuals, the natural environment of people.
families and communities to cope with Community-based practice means
their health needs providing care to people in their own
C. To increase the productivity of the people natural environments: the home, school
by providing them with services that will and workplace, for example.
increase their level of health
D. To contribute to national development 3. Population-focused nursing practice
through promotion of family welfare, requires which of the following processes?
focusing particularly on mothers and A. Community organizing
children. B. Nursing process
C. Community diagnosis
Answer: (B) To enhance the capacity of D. Epidemiologic process
individuals, families and communities to
cope with their health needs Answer: (C) Community diagnosis
To contribute to national development Population-focused nursing care means
through promotion of family welfare, providing care based on the greater need of
focusing particularly on mothers and the majority of the population. The greater
children. need is identified through community
diagnosis.
2. CHN is a community-based practice.
Which best explains this statement?
A. The service is provided in the natural
environment of people.
B. The nurse has to conduct community
diagnosis to determine nursing needs
and problems.
C. The services are based on the
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, employs ergonomic principles, she is
4. R.A. 1054 is also known as the performing which of her roles?
Occupational Health Act. Aside from A. Health care provider
number of employees, what other factor B. Health educator
must be considered in determining the C. Health care coordinator
occupational health privileges to which the D. Environmental manager
workers will be entitled?
A. Type of occupation: agricultural, Answer: (D) Environmental manager
commercial, industrial Ergonomics is improving efficiency of
B. Location of the workplace in workers by improving the worker’s
relation to health facilities environment through appropriately
C. Classification of the business enterprise designed furniture, for example.
based on net profit
D. Sex and age composition of employees 7. A garment factory does not have an
occupational nurse. Who shall provide the
Answer: (B) Location of the workplace in occupational health needs of the factory
relation to health facilities workers?
Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse A. Occupational health nurse at the
must be employed when there are 30 to Provincial Health Office
100 employees and the workplace is more B. Physician employed by the factory
than 1 km. away from the nearest health C. Public health nurse of the RHU of their
center. municipality
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the
5. A business firm must employ an RHU of their municipality
occupational health nurse when it has at
least how many employees?
A. 21
B. 101
C. 201
D. 301
Answer: (B) 101
Again, this is based on R.A. 1054.
6. When the occupational health nurse
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, services
Answer: (C) Public health nurse of the D. For people to be organized in their health
RHU of their municipality efforts
You’re right! This question is based on
R.A.1054. Answer: (A) For people to attain their
birthrights of health and longevity
8. “Public health services are given free of According to Winslow, all public health
charge.” Is this efforts are for people to realize their
statement true or false? birthrights of health and longevity.
A. The statement is true; it is the
responsibility of government to 10. We say that a Filipino has attained
provide basic services. longevity when he is able to reach the
B. The statement is false; people pay average lifespan of Filipinos. What other
indirectly for public health services. statistic may be used to determine
C. The statement may be true or false, attainment of longevity?
depending on the specific service required. A. Age-specific mortality rate
D. The statement may be true or false, B. Proportionate mortality rate
depending on policies of the government C. Swaroop’s index
concerned. D. Case fatality rate
Answer: (B) The statement is false; Answer: (C) Swaroop’s index
people pay indirectly for public Swaroop’s index is the percentage of the
health services. deaths aged 50 years or older. Its inverse
Community health services, including represents the percentage of untimely deaths
public health services, are pre-paid (those who died younger than 50 years).
services, though taxation, for example.
11. Which of
the following is the most
9. According to C.E.Winslow, which of the prominent feature of public health nursing?
following is the goal of Public Health?
A. For people to attain their birthrights of
health and longevity
B. For promotion of health and prevention of
disease
C. For people to have access to basic health
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, A. It involvesproviding home care to sick 13. Which of the following is the
people who are not confined in the mission of the Department of
hospital. Health?
B. Services are provided free of charge to A. Health for all Filipinos
people within the catchment area. B. Ensure the accessibility and quality of
C. The public health nurse functions as health care
part of a team providing a public health C. Improve the general health status of the
nursing services. population
D. Public health nursing focuses on D. Health in the hands of the Filipino people
preventive, not curative, services. by the year 2020
Answer: (D) Public health nursing Answer: (B) Ensure the accessibility
focuses on preventive, not and quality of health care
curative, services. (none)
The catchment area in PHN consists of a
residential community, many of whom 14. Region IV Hospital is classified as
are well individuals who have greater what level of facility?
need for preventive rather than curative A. Primary
services. B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
12. According to Margaret Shetland, the D. Tertiary
philosophy of public health nursing is
based on which of the following? Answer: (D) Tertiary
A. Health and longevity as birthrights Regional hospitals are tertiary facilities
B. The mandate of the state to protect the because they serve as training hospitals
birthrights of its citizens for the region.
C. Public health nursing as a specialized field
of nursing
D. The worth and dignity of man
Answer: (D) The worth and dignity of man
This is a direct quote from Dr. Margaret
Shetland’s
statements on Public Health Nursing.
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