Test Bank for Foundations for
Population Health in Community
Public Health Nursing 6th Edition
,TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR POPULATION HEALTH INCOMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH
NURSING 6TH EDITION
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Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs.
Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs.
A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
ANS: A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is provided for “sick” individuals
and familieswhere they live, work, and attend school. The emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of
comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care. These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant,
pediatric, adult, or psychiatricmental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to
individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems.
Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
Providing care to individuals and families
Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
ANS: D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health and preventing
disease topromote the quality of life. All nurses may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons
within their family setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to
community-oriented nursing.
Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
Families and groups
Illness-oriented care
Individuals within the family unit
Health care of communities and populations
ANS: D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations rather than on
individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for
the community and the populationwithin it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of
individuals and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the
community, and the focus of practice is on individual or
family-centered illness care.
Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the 20th century?
Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
Use of antibiotics to fight infections
ANS: C
There has to be indisputable evidence collected over time that public health policies and programs were primarily
responsible for increasing the average life span from 47 in 1900 to 78.6 years in 2017, an increase of approximately
60% in just over a century plusthrough improvements in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making
workplaces safer, (4) improving food and drug safety,
(5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition, hygiene, and housing. Although people are excited when a new
drug is discovered that cures a disease or when a new way to transplant organs is perfected, it is important to know
about the significantgains in the health of populations that have come largely from public health accomplishments.
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A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community. Which of the
following interventionswould most likely be implemented by the nurse?
Provide free health care to all citizens
To increase the number of individuals with access to effective health care benefits
Lower the cost of health care to the American population
To lessen the governmental burden of providing health care to Americans
ANS: B
The central feature in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 are the mechanisms to increase
the number ofpeople with health insurance. The care provided is not necessarily free. While the cost of health care and
the burden it places on theAmerican government are serious concerns, they are not the primary focus of ACA.
