Deck 2: History of Public Health and Community Health Nursing

Question 1

Public health practice is an appealing specialty to nurses because of its:

A) Interactions with wealthy contributors to secure funding
B) Autonomy and independence of practice
C) Ability to locate the source of diseases and cure patients
D) Opportunities to meet a variety of people

Answer 1

Autonomy and independence of practice

Question 2

The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which current law?

A) Welfare
B) Food Stamps
C) Medicaid
D) Medicare

Answer 2

Medicaid

Question 3

Public health nurses are involved in health care reform because reform should:

A) Promote the nursing profession.
B) Increase funding for public health nursing.
C) Address the concerns of nurses.
D) Improve health care access and reduce health care costs.

Answer 3

Improve health care access and reduce health care costs.

Question 4

Which of the trends in health issues in the United States between 1900 and 1955 is accurate?

A) There was a rise in chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer.
B) There was a rise in communicable disease.
C) The crude mortality rate increased dramatically.
D) The life span after diagnosis remained the same.

Question 5

Nurses who provided care to people in their homes and provided that care to several people at a time were called _____ nurses.

A) Private duty
B) Visiting
C) Public health
D) Community staff

Question 6

A colonist working in the public health sector in early colonial North America would likely have focused on:

A) Establishing schools of nursing
B) Developing vaccines to administer to large numbers of people
C) Collecting vital statistics and improving sanitation
D) Developing public housing and almshouses

Question 7

Lillian Wald's major contribution to public health nursing was:

A) Founding the American Nurses Association
B) Developing the New York Training Hospital for Nurses
C) Creating the Public Health Service
D) Establishing the Henry Street Settlement

Question 8

A 66-year-old woman is retired and no longer has health insurance through her place of employment.Which program would be appropriate for her health insurance needs?

A) Medicare
B) Medicaid
C) Social Security
D) Economic Opportunity Act

Question 9

A public health nurse is compiling information about how to promote early detection of breast cancer in women.Which document would most likely provide useful information about this  topic?

A) The Future of Public Health
B) Healthy People 2020
C) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
D) Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing Practice

Question 10

Current threats to health in the United States that community health nurses are faced with include:

A) Diphtheria, cholera, and hepatitis
B) HIV, H1N1 influenza, and bioterrorism
C) Avian flu, tuberculosis, and radiation
D) Polluted water and air

Question 11

In the past,population-centered nurses have been called:

A) District nurses
B) Almshouse nurses
C) Soldier nurses
D) Sisters

Question 12

The practice of a school nurse in the early twentieth century would have focused on:

A) Investigating causes of absenteeism
B) Teaching school as well as being a nurse
C) Promoting nursing as an autonomous practice
D) Providing medical treatment to enable children to return to school

Question 13

Neighborhood centers that provided health care,education,and social welfare programs were called:

A) Settlement houses
B) Nursing care centers
C) Nurse-managed clinics
D) Public health services

Question 14

What task would have been a responsibility of a nurse who was employed by the Marine Hospital Service?

A) Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
B) Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
C) Identifying and improving environmental conditions
D) Providing health care for merchant seamen

Question 15

A neighborhood health center is researching its origins.Which of the legislative acts most likely provided funds for its development?

A) Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Act of 1943
B) Medicaid legislation
C) Social Security Act of 1935
D) Economic Opportunity Act

Question 16

Local health departments were formed in urban areas in the late 1800s to:

A) Target environmental hazards associated with crowded living conditions.
B) Facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote "practical nursing."
C) Provide immunizations and health care services to all citizens.
D) Offer public health education to nurses who had finished basic training.

Question 17

A major provision of the Social Security Act of 1935 was the establishment of:

A) The Frontier Nursing Service to provide nursing service to rural communities
B) State and local community health services and training of personnel
C) District nursing to provide home health care to sick people
D) Community-based settlement houses

Question 18

The original work of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing has influenced nursing practice today by:

A) Requiring that public health nurses have a baccalaureate degree in nursing
B) Standardizing public health nursing education
C) Developing nursing cooperatives
D) Opening the Henry Street Settlement

Question 19

Florence Nightingale's contributions to public health included:

A) Caring for the sick, poor, and neglected in institutions and at home
B) Using a population-based approach that led to improved environmental conditions
C) Writing the Elizabethan Poor Law to guarantee medical care for all
D) Founding of the district nursing association to provide health care to needy people

Question 20

Which topic is most likely to have been discussed when Lillian Wald provided public health education?

A) Taking and recording blood pressures accurately
B) Safe and sanitary baby and child care
C) Environmental pollutants and their effects on lung disease
D) Time management: balancing factory work and the home

Question 21

Which statement is true about African American nurses in public health?

A) Certificate and graduate education were more difficult to obtain.
B) Cities were the major areas where they practiced.
C) They often belonged to the Frontier Nursing Service.
D) They were recruited heavily as military nurses.

Question 22

When comparing the practices of industrial and occupational health nurses,it is noted that:

A) Industrial nurses invented new machines to streamline production of medical goods, whereas occupational health nurses provide care to employees.
B) Industrial nurses investigated industrial injuries to improve work conditions, whereas occupational health nurses demonstrate proper body mechanics.
C) Industrial nurses treated work related-injuries, whereas occupational health nurses care for families in their homes.
D) Industrial nurses provided care for workers in their homes, whereas occupational health nurses care for work-related injuries.

Question 23

A nurse working with Mary Breckinridge would have likely assisted with:

A) Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
B) Developing health programs geared toward improving the health care of the rural populations
C) Blazing a nursing trail through the Rockies, providing nursing care to miners and their families
D) Teaching birth control measures to large numbers of women in the South

Question 24

The impact of World War I on public health nursing included (select all that apply):

A) Many communicable diseases were eradicated.
B) The depletion of the ranks of public health nurses to the war.
C) The feeling that the greatest patriotic duty was to stay at home.
D) Expanding nursing services in the community was limited by lack of funding.

Question 25

A nurse is considering joining the American Public Health Association.What information about this organization should be considered when making this decision?

A) APHA focuses on the public health concerns of the medical profession.
B) APHA represents concerns of nursing specialty practices.
C) APHA provides a forum for nurses to discuss their public health concerns.
D) APHA focuses on providing health promotion education to the public.

Question 26

The document,Visiting Nurses in the United States,highlighted the fact that:

A) Nurses were trained by Boards of Education.
B) Trained nurses adequately covered less densely populated areas.
C) Visiting nurse services were concentrated in the northeastern United States.
D) Nurses were curing diseases such as tuberculosis and typhoid fever.

Question 27

A nursing student during World War II would likely join which group?

A) The Public Health Service of New York City
B) The Marine Nurse Corps
C) The Frontier Nursing Service
D) The Cadet Nurse Corps

Question 28

An example of the resourcefulness of a nurse during the time when the Rural Nursing Service was operating through the American Red Cross was:

A) Using hot bricks, salt, or sandbags to substitute for hot water bottles
B) Testing well water for pollutants
C) Teaching school and developing curricula for rural nursing programs
D) Providing post-surgical care

Question 29

Which client would have been most likely to receive care from the Frontier Nursing Service?

A) An injured soldier
B) A homebound, elderly male
C) A woman in labor
D) A child with measles