Exam 1- Community Health Questions
and Answers
Public Health Nursing - answer Public health nursing is the practice of promoting and
protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public
health sciences.
Role of the Government in Community Nursing - answer Assess problems, develop
and implement policy, ensure that services are delivered and measured. It's all about
cost, quality and access.
Goal of community health nursing - answer health promotion, disease prevention,
and risk reduction.
Promote, preserve, and maintain the health of populations by the delivery of health
services to individuals, families, and groups.
Principles of Public Health Nursing - answer The client or unit of care is the
population.
The primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of
people or number of people as a whole.
Public health nurses collaborate with the client as equal partner.
Primary prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities.
Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create healthy environmental, social,
and economic conditions in which populations may thrive.
A public health nurse is obligated actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit
from a specific activity or service.
Optimal use of available resources and creation of new evidence-based strategies is
necessary to assure the best overall improvement in the health populations.
Collaboration with other professions, populations, organizations, and stakeholder
groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the health of the people.
Correctional Nurse - answer These nurses provide care for inmates in correctional
facilities, such as juvenile facilities, jails, and prisons. They have a higher level of
autonomy compared to other nursing roles.
faith based nurses - answer Nurses that provide care in churches, missions, and
non-profits.
Forensic Nurse - answer Applies nursing science to public or legal proceedings in
the scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of violence,
abuse, criminal activity, and traumatic accidents
, Home Health Nurse - answer nursing care to clients were they reside. this includes
traditional homes, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. Functions as education,
provider of skilled nursing interventions, and coordinator of care.
Hospice Nurse - answer comprehensive care delivery system for the terminally ill
that is usually implemented when the client is not expected to live longer than 6 months
- may continue to work with family up to one year after the death of the client
Legal Nurse Consultant - answer A licensed RN, who critically evaluates and
analyzes health-care issues in medically related lawsuits. They work in attorney's
offices, hospital risk management centers, independent practices, and health insurance
companies.
Occupational Nurse - answer Responsible for the assessment of the work
environment to ensure the safety of the employees.
Organ Transplant Nurse - answer cares for patients who are receiving or donating
organs via a transplant surgical procedure. They prepare living donors who volunteer to
donate organs and tissues for transplant and educate them on the procedure, recovery
and risks.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse - answer Provides, structures, and maintains a safe
and therapeutic environment in collaboration with patients, families, and other health
care clinicians
School Nurse - answer Specialized practice of professional nursing that advances
the well being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students.
Travel Nurse - answer Fixed-term, temporary nurses who usually work at the same
hospital for 13 weeks and are scheduled at least 2 months in advance.
U.S. Armed forces nurse - answer These nurses may also work in hospitals or global
response centers alongside deployed military personnel during natural disasters or
times of war. Military nurses can work in potentially dangerous environments, like
foreign war zones, and work under extremely stressful conditions
U.S. Public of Health Services nurse - answer Promoting the public health of the
nation
Providing nursing care to underserved and disadvantaged populations
Expanding knowledge through biomedical, behavioral, and health services research
leading to the prevention and treatment of disease
Improving the health care system, including development of innovations in health care
Ensuring the safe and effective use of drug and medical devices
Wound ostomy continence nurse (WOCN) - answer A nurse specially educated to
care for ostomy patients; the nurse collaborates with staff nurses to be use that the
