Deck 4: Public Health Nursing

Question 1

What was the significance of the Public Health Agency Act (2006)?

A) It confirmed the agency as a legal entity and appointed a chief public health officer
B) It served as a central point for sharing Canada's expertise in health promotion
C) It helped to increase the lifespan of all Canadians through various initiatives
D) It helped to secure funding for chronic diseases and illness and injury prevention

Answer 1

It confirmed the agency as a legal entity and appointed a chief public health officer

Question 2

What world event made it necessary for preventive medicine to be integrated with clinical medicine to control the spread of disease?

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) The Vietnam War
D) The Gulf War

Answer 2

World War I

Question 3

What type of community health nurse applies public health science, the principles of primary health care, nursing science, and the social sciences to promote, protect, and preserve the health of populations?

A) Outpost nurse
B) Forensic nurse
C) Public health nurse
D) Occupational health nurse

Answer 3

Public health nurse

Question 4

What was founded around the time of World War I by the Government of Canada to enact legislation concerning disease surveillance and to safeguard public administration of food and drugs?

A) A rural board of health
B) A national department of health
C) A provincial department of health
D) A municipal department of health

Question 5

When were the responsibilities for health and social welfare matters delegated to the provinces?

A) After World War I
B) After World War II
C) After the British North American Act
D) After Canadian confederation

Question 6

"The organized efforts of society to keep people healthy and prevent injury, illness, and premature death" is the definition of which term?

A) Public health nursing
B) Public health
C) Social determinants of health
D) Vaccination campaigns

Question 7

Public health nurses perform their roles and responsibilities as outlined in the six essential functions of public health. One of these functions of public health is:

A) Disease and injury promotion
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Population health assessment
D) Emergency protection

Question 8

The first public health activities in Canada occurred in 1831 with the arrival of immigrants to Upper Canada who had contracted which disease?

A) Tuberculosis
B) Spanish influenza
C) Cholera
D) The black plague

Question 9

Which principle of primary health care is based on the premise that citizens, collectively, have the knowledge and capacity to identify barriers to health and to determine options to overcome those barriers?

A) Health promotion
B) Intersectoral collaboration
C) Public participation
D) Accessibility

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of primordial prevention work of public health nurses?

A) Screening for lead levels in blood samples of employees exposed to environmental contaminants in their workplace
B) Advocating for communities to have access to iodized salt in flour to prevent iodine deficiency goiter
C) Designing, planning, and implementing social marketing campaigns to de-normalize tobacco use
D) Working in a Papanicolaou smear early detection program to identify cervical cancer

Question 11

What is the mission of the Public Health Agency of Canada?

A) To apply international research and development to Canada's public health programs
B) To strengthen intergovernmental collaboration on public health
C) To facilitate national approaches to public health policy and planning
D) To promote and protect the health of Canadians though leadership, partnership, innovation, and action in public health

Question 12

In the late 1800s, what type of organization oversaw proper pasteurization of mild, tuberculin testing of cows, tuberculosis isolation and quarantine practices, and tracking sexually transmitted infections?

A) Public Health Agency of Canada
B) The Provincial Minster of Health's Office
C) Local Public Health Units
D) The National Department of Health

Question 13

Which three Canadian provinces were the first to set up provincially funded public health nursing services?

A) British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
B) Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia
C) Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan
D) Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia?

Question 14

The first public health nurses in Canada were known as what type of nurse?

A) Outpost nurse
B) Visiting or district nurse
C) Telehealth nurse
D) Occupational health nurse

Question 15

In what year and in what province was the first Public Health Act passed?

A) In Ontario in 1884
B) In Saskatchewan in 1910
C) In British Columbia in 1896
D) In Manitoba in 1927

Question 16

One of the first types of public health legislation in Canada provided detailed regulations for which of the following?

A) Personal and environmental cleanliness
B) Water and sanitation pipeline initiatives
C) Mandatory vaccination of school children
D) Water fluoridation initiatives

Question 17

In Canada, public health nursing grew out of the social conscious of the social gospel movement and maternal feminism. Maternal feminists were:

A) Seeking social reform to protect the interests of women and children
B) Seeking political economic reform to protect the interests of single women
C) Seeking the status quo to protect the interests of women and families
D) Seeking the status quo to protect the interests of the political parties

Question 18

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion led to health care reform and a new public health movement. The role of public health nurses in this new movement was to:

A) Reduce health inequities by enabling citizens to take action to improve their health
B) Increase health inequities by enabling citizens to increase control over their health
C) Increase social injustice by focusing on communicable diseases
D) Reduce social justice by working on water and sanitation initiatives

Question 19

Which nurse leader spearheaded the opening of the Department of Public Health in the city of Toronto in the early 1900s?

A) Lillian Wald
B) Eleanore Louise Miner
C) Eunice Henrietta Dyke
D) Lynn Blair

Question 20

Public health nurses in the late 1800s and early 1900s focused on improving physical environmental conditions in order to:

A) Clean up water supplies and manage sewage removal
B) Respond to communicable disease outbreaks
C) Track sexually transmitted infections
D) Reduce maternal and child mortality

Question 21

List 4 skills of public health nurses

Question 22

When a public health nurse works on programs to protect Canada's water supply and food from contamination, he/she is working on which of the essential functions of public health?

A) Health surveillance
B) Population health assessment
C) Health promotion
D) Health protection

Question 23

A public health nurse who engages in screening for nutritional diseases (e.g. scurvy) is working towards which essential function of public health?

A) Emergency preparedness
B) Health promotion
C) Disease and injury prevention
D) Population health assessment

Question 24

Discuss the importance of primary health care and public health nursing

Question 25

A public health nurse who reports health threats to various health care practitioners is working towards which essential function of public health?

A) Health protection
B) Population health assessment
C) Injury prevention
D) Health surveillance

Question 26

A public health nurse who engages in ongoing collection and analysis of data to identify trend or emerging problems is working towards which essential function of public health?

A) Health protection
B) Health surveillance
C) Population health assessment
D) Disease and injury prevention

Question 27

Which of the following is an example of secondary prevention work of public health nurses?

A) Implementing vaccination campaigns to prevent communicable diseases
B) Screening for cholesterol levels at the community health centre
C) Providing nutrition education for patients diagnosed with HIV
D) Providing self-management supports for children diagnosed with upper respiratory infections

Question 28

List 4 of the 8 public health nursing discipline specific competencies: