N250 - COMMUNITY HEALTH EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Florence Nightingale - Answer-Founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton - Answer-Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Nurse that improved mentally ill treatment - Answer-Dorthea Dix
Lillian Wald - Answer-Henry Street Settlement House and public health nursing founder
4 Public health achievements 1900 - 1999 (3 health measures + 1 family) - Answer-1- 3.
Vaccination, infection control, ↓ cardiac disease and stroke death
4. Family planning
Henry Street Settlement House and public health nursing founder - Answer-Lillian Wald
Two roles of government in public health - Answer-1. Addressing health policy /
problems
2. Delivery of services → outcomes achieved
3 goals of the PP(ACA) - Answer-↑ Access to primary care & affordable insurance
↓ costs
3 major health care changes in 21st century (how is work?) - Answer-1. Client-centered
care
2. Health responsibility
3. Technology use
Patient/client-centered care in 21st century focuses on...(1; 2-3; 4-5) - Answer-1.
Families'
2. Cultural values
&
3. Lifestyle preferences
2 components of personal responsibility for health in 21st century - Answer-1. Active
participation → self education
2. Review health / drugs
, How technology changed in healthcare in 21st century (2) - Answer-1. Medical devices
(Telehealth)
2. Health information technology
How technology benefited patient/clients in 21st century (3+3+1) (increases/decreases
and another) - Answer-(1-3) ↑ access, coordination & outcomes
(4-6) ↓ errors, costs, paperwork
(7)Evidence - based practice
Define community (3) - Answer-a people, place, and social system
How technology benefited public health in the 21st century (5) - Answer-1. Detecting (of
infectious disease)
2. Tracking (of chronic disease)
3. Preventing (increased)
4. Evaluating (measures of health)
5. Accuracy of disease and disability burden in the community
What is a systematic process of delivering care to improve the health of the entire
community? - Answer-Community Health Nursing
Global health (3) - Answer-1. Addressed by cooperative actions and solutions
2. Culture, role, environment determine health
3. *Well being* (more than "not sick")
Community-based nursing focuses on (individuals and families) 2 - Answer-
Coordinating community population's minor acute and chronic care outside of a facility
(after school, work, at home)
Individual needs met as a whole; not based on families, education level or environment
Community oriented nursing - Answer-Helping *at-risk* populations-focus on improving
health of the community and thinking upstream
Public health nursing is ______________-based and focuses on ________ of
_______and__________ and promoting the community's health. They are also involved
with ____________________________. - Answer-1. Population-based practice to
prevent d/d and pro/pro the community's health.
2. Health Policy Making
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