Community Health Nursing in Canada - Chapter 1 Community Health Nurse 100% Verified
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Public Health Nursing
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Public Health Nursing
Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group's needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care - ANSWER ...
Community Health Nursing in Canada -
Chapter 1 Community Health Nurse
100% Verified
Which of the following best describes community health nursing?
a. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate's needs
b. Giving care with a focus on the group's needs
c. Focusing on the health care of individual clients in the community
d. Working with an approach of unique client care - ANSWER ANS: C
By definition, community health nursing is the health care of individual clients in the
community.
Which of the following best describes primary health care?
a. A comprehensive way to address issues of social justice
b. Giving care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. Having the goal of health promotion and disease prevention - ANSWER ANS: A
By definition, primary health care is comprehensive and addresses issues of social
justice and equity. Social justice in the context of health refers to ensuring fairness and
equality in health services so that vulnerable individuals in society have easy access to
health care.
The health of which of the following is the primary focus of public health nurses (PHNs)?
a. Families
b. Groups
c. Individuals
d. Populations - ANSWER ANS: D
PHNs use knowledge of nursing, social sciences, and public health sciences for the
promotion and protection of health and for the prevention of disease among
populations.
Which change is the primary explanation for life expectancy increasing so notably since
the early 1900s?
a. An increase in findings from medical laboratory research
b. Incredible advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Improved sanitation and other public health activities
d. Increased use of antibiotics to fight infections - ANSWER ANS: C
Improvement in control of infectious diseases through immunizations, sanitation, and
other public health activities led to the increase in life expectancy since the early 1900s.
Which community health nursing practice area receives funding from the private sector?
a. Telenurses
b. Corrections nurses
, c. Nurse entrepreneurs
d. Street or outreach nurses - ANSWER ANS: C
The nurse entrepreneur receives private funding, whereas all of the other community
health nurse (CHN) roles are with provincially or federally funded positions.
The CHN working with women at the senior citizens' centre reminds them that the only
way the centre will be able to afford a driver and a van service for those who cannot
drive themselves is to continue to write letters to their local city council representatives,
requesting funding for such a service. What is the CHN doing?
a. Ensuring that the women do not expect the CHN herself to do anything about their
problem
b. Demonstrating that she understands the women's concerns and needs
c. Expressing empathy, support, and concern
d. Helping the women engage in political action locally - ANSWER ANS: D
CHNs have an imperative to work with the members of the community to carry out
public health functions such as political action.
Which activity is an example of the "advocate" role of the CHN?
a. Organizing home care support for a newly discharged older adult client
b. Acting as a member of a community action group for provision of accessible transit
choices
c. Doing prenatal assessments
d. Facilitating a self-help group for smoking cessation - ANSWER ANS: B
An advocate provides a voice to client concerns when acting as a member of a
community action group for provision of accessible transit choices.
In which scenario is the PHN most comprehensively fulfilling collaborative practice
responsibilities?
a. The PHN meets with several groups about community recreation issues.
b. The PHN spends the day attending meetings at various health agencies.
c. The PHN talks to several people about their particular health concerns.
d. The PHN watches television, including a telecast of a city council meeting on the
local cable station. - ANSWER ANS: B
Any of these might represent a PHN communicating, cooperating, or collaborating with
community residents or groups about health concerns. However, the PHN who spends
the day attending meetings at various health agencies is most comprehensively fulfilling
requirements effectively, since health is broader than recreation, individual concerns are
not as important as aggregate priorities, and watching television is only one-way
communication.
A CHN often has to make resource allocation decisions. In such cases, which approach
will most help the CHN to arrive at the decision?
a. Choosing a moral or ethical principle
b. Choosing the cheapest, most economical approach
c. Choosing the most rational outcome
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