Test Bank For Foundations For Population Health In Community Public Health Nursing 6th Edition By Stanhope
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Foundations For Population Health
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Foundations For Population Health
Test Bank For Foundations For Population Health In Community Public Health Nursing 6th
Edition By Stanhope
Chapter : The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse is considering applying for a position as a public health nurse. Which of the f...
Test Bank For Foundations For Population Health In Community Public Health Nursing 6th
Edition By Stanhope
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Chapter : The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICE
A nurse is considering applying for a position as a public health nurse. Which of the following would be a reason this pos
Its autonomy and independence
Its focus on acute care and immediately visible outcomes
Its collaboration with other health care professionals
Its flexibility and higher wages
ANS: A
Public health nursing is known for its autonomy and independence. In many instances, there are limited other health care
whom to interact. In-patient acute care nurses focus on acute care with outcomes known fairly quickly. Acute care nurse
other health care professionals. Depending on the position there may be more flexibility, but typically public health nurse
The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which current law?
Welfare
Food stamps
Medicaid
Medicare
ANS: C
The Elizabethan Poor Law guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and “lame” individuals. This minimal care was gene
supported by local government similar to Medicaid assistance. Welfare and food stamps do not provide for medical care.
to primarily the elderly population.
How did the Industrial Revolution result in previous caregiving approaches, such as care by families, friends, and neighb
Economic and political wars resulted in frequent death and injuries.
Incredible plagues consistently and constantly swept the European continent.
Migration and urbanization resulted in increased demand for care.
Caregivers could easily find other employment, so they demanded to be paid.
ANS: C
Care became inadequate because of the social changes in Europe, with great advances in transportation, communication,
increased mobility led to migration and urbanization, which in turn led to increased need for care. The Industrial Revolut
in technology, transportation, and communication, not a time of economic and political unrest or a time where incredible
Caregivers during this time period were typically poorly educated and untrained, so there was not an issue related to wag
A colonist is working in the public health sector in early colonial America. Which of the following activities would have
Establishing schools of nursing
Developing vaccines to administer to large numbers of people
Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation
Developing public housing and almshouses
ANS: C
Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation are examples of activities from the early colonial America. Establishin
vaccines to administer to large numbers of people, and developing public housing and almshouses all happened after the
Why did American citizens become interested in establishing government-sponsored boards of health?
They were afraid of infectious diseases such as yellow fever.
The government could force the poverty-stricken to accept care.
Such boards could tax and thereby ensure adequate funds to pay for care.
Such a system would allow for accurate records of births and deaths.
ANS: A
Threat of disease, especially yellow fever, led to public interest in establishing government-sponsored, or official, boards
was the impetus for creation of the boards of establishing boards of health. The primary interest of the boards of health w
services for the entire population and not only those who were poverty-stricken. The primary purpose of the boards of he
vital statistics or receive tax dollars rather its purpose was to ensure the health of the population.
A nurse was employed by the Marine Hospital Service in 1800. Which of the following interventions would the nurse m
Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
Identifying and improving environmental conditions
Providing health care for merchant seamen
ANS: D
Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve public health. The purpose of
to secure its maritime trade and seacoast cities. Quarantine legislation was enacted by legislation during this time period,
been responsible for setting these policies. Nursing care for clients in the home began in the first half of the 1800s throug
the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Charleston South Carolina.
Identifying and improving environmental conditions was a focus of the public boards of health, not necessarily specifical
What was the outcome of the Shattuck Report?
Efforts to control alcohol and drug abuse, as well as tobacco use, were initiated.
Environmental sanitation efforts became an immediate priority.
Guidelines for modern public health organizations were eventually developed.
Local and state governments established boards of health after its publication.
ANS: C
It took 19 years for the first of Shattuck’s recommendations to be implemented, but his report was the first effort to creat
organization. This report called for broad changes to improve the public’s health to take place; however, these changes d
publication. They took 19 years to be implemented in the first state of Massachusetts.
The report included establishment of a state health department and local health boards in every town, sanitary surveys, an
disease control, but none of these changes happened quickly.
Which nurse is famous for creating public health nursing in the United States?
Florence Nightingale
Frances Root
Lillian Wald
Mrs. Solomon Loeb
ANS: C
Lillian Wald established the Henry Street Settlement and later emerged as the established leader of public health nursing
Solomon Loeb was a wealthy layperson who assisted Mary Brewster in the establishment of the Henry Street Nurses Set
first trained nurse in the United States who was salaried as a visiting nurse. Florence Nightingale had many accomplishm
in the United States.
Which of the following would have been the focus of a school nurse in the early 20th century?
Investigating causes of absenteeism
Teaching school as well as being a nurse
Promoting nursing as an autonomous practice
Providing medical treatment to enable children to return to school
ANS: A
Early school nursing focused on investigating causes of absenteeism. Providing medical treatment was the responsibility
not teach in the schools nor were they part of an autonomous practice during this time period.
A nurse is reviewing the original work of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Which accomplishments
organization?
Requiring that public health nurses have a baccalaureate degree in nursing
Standardizing public health nursing education
Developing public health nursing competencies
Opening the Henry Street Settlement
ANS: B
The National Organization for Public Health Nursing sought to improve the educational and services standards of public
Settlement was already in existence and was opened by Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster. The baccalaureate degree in nu
Public health nursing competencies were developed by the Quad Council.
Why were nurses so unprepared for public health nursing in the early 20th century?
Public health nursing had not yet been created as a field.
No one would teach the nurses how to engage in public health activities.
Nightingale’s textbook did not include content on public health nursing.
Nurses were educated in diploma schools, which emphasized care of hospital clients.
ANS: D
Nursing school courses taught in diploma schools of nursing emphasized hospital care of patients; thus, nurses were unp
specialty of public health nursing practice was developed in the early 1800s. There was not a lack of teachers for this act
care was in the acute care setting and not in the community. Nightingale did not have a published textbook.
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