Deck 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice

Question 1

According to O'Donnell's definition of health promotion, how could a public health nurse advise a company to encourage its employees to work toward good health?

A)Lower insurance premiums for employees who demonstrate good health habits
B)Have employee exercise classes or discounted health club memberships
C)Have incentives for healthy eating
D)All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

The regulatory activities of public health nursing include which of the following? Select all that apply.

A)Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
B)Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
C)Writing new regulations for health care and legislating them
D)Taking part in health policy debates
E)Educating the public

Answer 2

Interpreting public health laws, regulations, and policies
Monitoring regulated entities such as nursing homes
Taking part in health policy debates
Educating the public

Question 3

A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow's definition, some of the goals of public health are disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections, and ____.

A)Risk assessment for disease
B)Birth control
C)Education on personal hygiene
D)Governmental safety regulations

Answer 3

Education on personal hygiene

Question 4

The obesity rate in a local neighborhood is partially the product of a limited access to full service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise. This is an example of issues related to the "upstream" determinants of public health that contribute to the ecology of a community's health "downstream." The PHN understands that upstream determinants include social relations, neighborhoods and communities, institutions, and ____.

A)Social and economic policies
B)Availability of medicine to treat disease
C)Tertiary nursing interventions
D)Increasing the number of primary care providers

Question 5

The public health nurse (PHN) knows that he must approach a public health problem with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors in order to develop effective nursing interventions. He must also consider that these risk factors can be either ____ based or ____ based.

A)Disease; individual
B)Intervention; government
C)Epidemic; population
D)Individual; population

Question 6

With aging, there is an increase in noncommunicable (chronic) illness. The PHN recognizes that an example of a noncommunicable illness is:

A)Heart disease
B)Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
C)Hepatitis
D)Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Question 7

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated in their report, The Future of the Public's Health, that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?

A)Prevention
B)Assessment
C)Policy development
D)Assurance

Question 8

As defined by the WHO, an example of a health promotion intervention is ____ whereas a risk reduction/health protection intervention is ____.

A)Conducting a health fair; funding a school exercise program
B)Giving a free exercise class; conducting a flu vaccine outreach program
C)Providing flu medication free to older adults; a diet class for teenagers
D)Offering a tour of a hospital; a relaxation technique class

Question 9

Which layer of government is responsible for issuing quarantines during a communicable disease outbreak?

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
D)All of the above

Question 10

A nursing instructor is giving a lecture on community participation in an ecological public health system. She teaches that the benefits of this collaboration for participants in the community's public health are that their efforts increase effectiveness and productivity, empower the participants, strengthen social engagement, and ____.

A)Decrease disease rates
B)Ensure accountability
C)Increase the number of medical facilities
D)Monitor childhood illnesses

Question 11

The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology, biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and ____ form the foundational subjects of public health.

A)Economics
B)The humanities
C)Social and behavioral sciences
D)Anthropology

Question 12

Globalization, which is a new challenge for public health, includes which of the following problems? Select all that apply.

A)Greater disparities between rich and poor
B)Environmental degradation
C)Greater need for newer technology
D)Greater distribution of tobacco and alcohol
E)Emergence or re-emergence of communicable diseases

Question 13

The nursing student is taught correctly that local health departments do not oversee which of the following?

A)The surveillance of disease
B)Investigation of disease outbreaks
C)Licensing of local hospitals
D)Public sanitation and water supply

Question 14

Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of community collaboration?

A)Local service groups working to organize disaster relief for tornado victims
B)A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking in restaurants
C)An advocacy group working with the local churches to improve health care for the indigent with mental health disorders
D)A school working with the local health department to start a school clinic

Question 15

A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself and other local practitioners understand health in populations. She understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes that:

A)There are multiple determinants of health and thus, multiple strategies are needed.
B)A population and environmental approach is essential.
C)Linkages and relationships are crucial.
D)All of the above.

Question 16

If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:

A)The public health arm of the United Nations.
B)Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
C)Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
D)All of the above.

Question 17

According to Issel diversity refers to all but which of these concepts?

A)Race
B)Culture
C)Ethnicity
D)Environment

Question 18

Several nurses who work in the emergency room of an urban hospital notice that a sizable number of children in a certain ethnic population have come in with an illness, all presenting with similar symptoms. The nurses, who are not public health specialists, can intervene in the health of a community through their work with individuals by doing which of the following? Select all that apply.

A)Increasing antibiotic therapy availability
B)Identifying characteristics of the disease
C)Grouping patients by diagnosis
D)Giving classes on how to avoid infections
E)Assessing the environment of the patients

Question 19

If a PHN meets the PHN Core Competencies, he or she should be able to do which of the following? Select all that apply.

A)Develop policy for handling a local quarantine.
B)Understand the dietary restrictions of new immigrants.
C)Create a financial plan for a clinic and manage the budget.
D)Function as a medical doctor at a clinic if there is none.
E)Work with corporations to create an emergency response program to bioterrorism.