Public health nursing stands out from most other types of nursing because it focuses on:
a. The individual in a hospital
b. The health status of a community
c. Quality control of surgical procedures
d. Preventing symptoms but not disease - correct answer b. the health status of the community
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Public health nursing stands out from most other types of nursing because it focuses
on:
a. The individual in a hospital
b. The health status of a community
c. Quality control of surgical procedures
d. Preventing symptoms but not disease - correct answer b. the health status of the
community
\Public health nursing focuses on:
a. Community-oriented disease prevention
b. The health of vulnerable subpopulations
c. Specific issues of a population
d. All of the above - correct answer D. All of the above
\WILL USE THIS QUESTION BUT WILL REWORD IT:
3. Which of the following is NOT a population-focused intervention that would be
expected as an aspect of public health nursing:
a. Develop and implement community-based health education
b. Participate in disaster planning and mobilization of community resources in
communities
c. Utilize screenings to identify subpopulations at risk for disease or disability
d. Administering medications to patients in the hospital setting - correct answer D-
administering medications to patients in the hospital setting
\Healthy People 2020's focus is to provide __________ care rather than __________
care.
a. Crisis; preventative
b. Holistic; disease-specific
c. Disease specific; holistic - correct answer b- holistic; disease specific
\What is not an objective of Healthy People 2020?
a. Lower health costs for all individuals.
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b. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
c. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. -
correct answer a- lower health costs for all individuals
\What is Healthy People 2020 designed to provide?
a. Lowered healthcare costs for the unemployed.
b. A roadmap for improving the health of all people in the US.
c. Provide public health services to the community. - correct answer b. - a roadmap for
improving the health of all people in the U.S.
\THIS Q WILL BE REWORDED:
1. Which of the following is not a core function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Quality improvement
c. Assurance
d. Assessment - correct answer b - quality improvement
\2. Which of the following is an essential service that falls under assessment in the core
functions of public health?
a. Enforce laws and regulations to protect community safety.
b. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
c. Monitor status to identify community health problems.
d. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. -
correct answer C- monitor status to identify community health problems
\A public health nurse is mobilizing community collaborations to promote change in local
health problems regarding tobacco use. The goal of these partnerships is to create new
guidelines for providing smoking education in schools. This describes which core
function of public health?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Capitation
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