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NSG 3480 - Community Health Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers What is the primary prevention that the occupational health nurse is involved in? - Ans:-An occupational health nurses main job is to prevent injury and illness before the occur, this is done by providing safety measures such as ...

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NSG 3480 - Community Health Exam 1 Practice
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What is the primary prevention that the occupational health nurse is involved in? - Ans:✔✔-An

occupational health nurses main job is to prevent injury and illness before the occur, this is done by

providing safety measures such as PPE


In the role of the home health nurse, how is the nursing process used? - Ans:✔✔-The role of the home

health nurse is to be a health advocate for the patient. The nurse must be able to identify the priority

needs of not only the patient but the family as well.


What is community/public health nursing? - Ans:✔✔-Is associated with health and the identification of

populations at risk rather than with an episodic response to patient demand.


What is the mission of public health? - Ans:✔✔-The mission of public health is social justice, which

entitles all people to basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and accepts

collective burdens to make it possible.


Public health assumes that it is society's responsibility to meet basic needs of the people


T/F - Ans:✔✔-T




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Community health nurses and public health nurses must align themselves together to promote and

preserve the health of populations for a common goal of influencing sociocultural issues such as as

human rights, homelessness, violence, disability and stigma of illness, which provides safety for all

individuals.


T/F - Ans:✔✔-T


When the Healthy People 2020 was under development, there were 12 leading indicators that were

identified which reflected the major public health concerns of those in the U.S. What are these 12

indicators? - Ans:✔✔-access to health services, clinical prevention services, environmental quality, injury

and violence, maternal and infant and child health, mental health, nutrition and physical activity and

obesity, oral health, reproductive and sexual health, social determinants, substance abuse, tobacco


The Healthy People 2020 goals increase life expectancy. True or False - Ans:✔✔-True


The leading health indicators can affect the health of individuals and communities, and can be correlated

with leading causes of morbidity and mortality. True or false - Ans:✔✔-True


list for examples of a high risk lifestyle, and what potential hazard is connected with that specific

lifestyle. - Ans:✔✔-1) tobacco use linked to heart disease, stroke, and cancer; 2) substance abuse is

linked to accidents injuries, and violence; 3) irresponsible, sexual behaviors linked to unwanted

pregnancies, STDs - including HIV and aids; 4) lack of access to healthcare linked to poor pregnancy

outcomes, untreated illnesses, and disabilities.



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Define Community Health - Ans:✔✔-community health extends the realm of public health to include

organized health efforts at the community level through both government and private efforts.


Define Primary Prevention - Ans:✔✔-primary prevention relates to activities, directed at preventing a

problem before it occurs by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible individuals.

Primary prevention consists of two elements: general health, promotion and specific protection.


Define secondary prevention - Ans:✔✔-secondary prevention refers to early detection and prompt

intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis. Secondary prevention is implemented after

a problem has begun, but before signs and symptoms appear, and targets those populations that have

risk factors


Define tertiary prevention - Ans:✔✔-tertiary prevention targets populations that have experienced

disease or injury, and focuses on limitation of disability and rehabilitation. Aims of tertiary prevention

are to keep health problems from getting worse, to reduce the effects of disease and injury, and to

restore individuals to their optimal level of functioning.


Define thinking upstream - Ans:✔✔-the concepts of prevention and population - focused care figure

prominently into a conceptual orientation to nursing practice, referred to as thinking upstream.


Define Health related quality of life - Ans:✔✔-this concept of health includes aspects of physical and

mental health and their determinants and measures functional status, participation, and well-being.

HRQOL expand the definition of health — beyond simply opposing the negative concepts of disease and

death — by integrating, mental and physical health concepts.

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