Deck 3: Nursing Roles, Functions, and Practice Settings

Question 1

What example best illustrates an inclusive definition of a family?

A) Group members related by blood or marriage
B) A man and a woman united in marriage
C) People who are living together under common law
D) Significant others for any given person

Answer 1

Significant others for any given person

Question 2

What level of prevention is evident in screening school children's vision and hearing?

A) Secondary
B) Health promotion
C) Primary
D) Tertiary

Answer 2

Secondary

Question 3

What is the primary focus of a forensic nurse's work?

A) Providing health care services within psychiatric institutions
B) Caring for survivors of violence including sexual assault
C) Consulting for ethics review boards
D) Working at a summer camp for troubled youth

Answer 3

Caring for survivors of violence including sexual assault

Question 4

Contrast three of the practice settings of community health nurses (CHNs)in terms of role focus and unique characteristics of nursing practice.Give an example for each practice setting of where the CHN might work.

Question 5

What is an example of a community health nurse's role in a primary prevention activity?

A) Doing blood pressure screening
B) Giving an influenza immunization
C) Completing blood glucose monitoring
D) Assisting a client with home dialysis

Question 6

A community health nurse is organizing a health fair at the university.What activity is an example of secondary prevention?

A) Provide free condoms at the health booth
B) Have participants complete a screening tool to determine mental health wellness
C) Develop a handout on the adverse effects of alcohol abuse
D) Supply a pamphlet on Canada's Food Guide with a sample meal plan

Question 7

What effect has the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome and West Nile virus had on public health nursing (PHN)?

A) Large public health initiatives are the domain of the physician.
B) There has been no effect as PHNs are not involved in communicable disease control.
C) Public health nurses no longer do contact tracing with individual clients.
D) There has been increased involvement in emergency preparedness planning and education.

Question 8

What statement best describes health promotion?

A) Does not involve care and support for chronic conditions
B) Includes the spectrum of health enhancement to disease prevention
C) The process of controlling people's health
D) The exclusive responsibility of nurses

Question 9

What is the ultimate goal of a public health nurse's work?

A) Enforce the provincial Public Health Act
B) Deliver health care to individuals and families within home and school settings
C) Increase the health of the community by preventing disease and promoting healthy behaviours
D) Provide specialized services to marginalized groups

Question 10

How does the role of the nurse practitioner differ from that of a public health nurse?

A) Is the owner of a business that offers nursing services
B) Provides health services within the prison system
C) Provides specialized clinical care in the home
D) Autonomously diagnoses and orders diagnostics

Question 11

Discuss the role of two professional nursing associations as they relate to community health nurses (CHNs).

Question 12

What action is required if a community health nurse wants to become a primary health care nurse practitioner (PHCNP)?

A) Gather additional skills to be able to assist physicians
B) Take additional nursing education with a focus on advanced clinical nursing practice
C) Write the national nurse practitioner examination
D) Work in the United States as this position is not available in Canada

Question 13

What activity by a public health nurse best illustrates group as client?

A) Visits a diabetic woman and her husband every day
B) Delivers nursing care to families living in a housing complex
C) Conducts discharge planning rounds at a local hospital
D) Provides prenatal classes at a community centre

Question 14

What type of health care is described in the statement,"Health care that is made universally accessible to individuals and families,through their full participation,and at a cost the community can afford"?

A) Disease and injury prevention
B) Global health care
C) Primary health care
D) Population health promotion

Question 15

A community health nurse is assisting Ms.Halladay to complete a grant application to obtain funding for specialized health care equipment for her ill daughter.What community health nursing competency is evident in this scenario?

A) Understanding and utilization of ethics and culture care principles
B) Understanding scope of practice or professional expectations
C) Knowledge of community resources in order to link the client to appropriate resources
D) Knowledge of advocacy,health policy development,and the overall health system

Question 16

A nurse is working with a public coalition to lobby for water fluoridation.What macro health promotion strategy is illustrated in this example?

A) Social marketing
B) Community mobilization
C) Downstream thinking
D) Secondary prevention

Question 17

What statement best describes the role of a faith community nurse (FCN)?

A) Promotes health based on a faith healing approach
B) Belongs to a church or other religious organization
C) Recognized by a faith community to carry out an intentional health promotion ministry
D) Provides health care on behalf of the health department in a local religious organization

Question 18

What public health nursing initiative would be an example of macro health promotion?

A) Educate a small segment of the population about a health issue
B) Produce effective behaviour change through health education
C) Deliver services in isolation from other strategies
D) Work with an entire community on a food security policy

Question 19

What activity is an example of a public health nurse (PHN)working at the level of the individual?

A) Delivering palliative care in a home
B) Providing school health education services
C) Developing a web-based community resources guide
D) Working in a travel immunization clinic

Question 20

What factor has been shown to enable community health nurses to practise to their full scope?

A) Existing nurse/physician collaboration
B) Access to learning resources
C) The work environment
D) Professional development opportunities

Question 21

What situation demonstrates that the home health nurse's relationship with the client is based on the understanding that the nurse is a "guest in the house"?

A) Prior to providing care the nurse washes her hands at the kitchen sink.
B) The home visit is booked to meet the nurse's demanding work schedule.
C) The nurse wears slippers in the client's home in observance of the client's cultural customs.
D) The client will follow the expert advice provided by the nurse during the visit.

Question 22

What is an example of a health promotion activity that a public health nurse would provide?

A) Giving stress reduction seminars to employees at a large corporation
B) Symptom management support for a family in a palliative care situation
C) Monitoring home oxygen therapy for a client awaiting a lung transplant
D) Providing meningitis prophylaxis to a high school in an outbreak situation