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FOUNDATIONS FOR POPULATION HEALTH INCOMMUN
HEALTHNursing
by Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Public HealthNursing and Population Health
Chapter 02: The History of Public Health and Public and Community HealthNursing Stanhope:Chapte
03: US and Global Health Care
Chapter 04: Government, the Law, and Policy Activism
Chapter 05: Economics of US Health Care Delivery
Chapter 06: Ethics in Public and Community HealthNursing Practice
Chapter 07: Culture of Populations in Communities
Chapter 08: Environmental Health
Chapter 09: Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 10: Epidemiological Applications
Chapter 11: Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Chapter 12: Communicable and Infection Disease Risks
Chapter 13: Community Assessment and Evaluation
Chapter 14: Health Education in the Community
Chapter 15: Case Management
Chapter 16: Disaster Management
Chapter 17: Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation
Chapter 18: Program Management
Chapter 19: Healthcare Improvement in the Community
Chapter 20: Family Development, FamilyNursing Assessment, and Genomics
Chapter 21: Family Health Risks
Chapter 22: Health Risks Across the Life Span
Chapter 23: Health Equity and Care of Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 24: Rural Health and Migrant Health
Chapter 25: Poverty, Homelessness, Teen Pregnancy, and Mental Illness
Chapter 26: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community
Chapter 27: Violence and Human Abuse
Chapter 28:Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels in Public Health
Chapter 29: The Faith Communitynurse
Chapter 30: Thenurse in Public Health, Home Health, Palliative Care, and HospiceChapter
31: Thenurse in the Schools
Chapter 32: Thenurse in Occupational Health
, Chapter 01: Public HealthNursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public HealthN u r s i n
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. WHICH statement best describes community-basedNursing?
a. A practice in WHICH care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group’s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate’s needs.
d. A value system in WHICH all clients receive optimal care.
SOLUTION A
By definition, community-basedNursing is a setting-specific practice in WHICH care is provided for “si
where they live, work, and attend school. The emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision
coordinated, and continuous care. Thesenurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, ped
mental healthNursing. Community-basedNursing emphasizes acute and chronic care to individuals and
focusing on groups, aggregates, or systems.
2. WHICH statement best describes the goal of community-orientedNursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
SOLUTION D
By definition, community-orientedNursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or maintaining health
promote the quality of life. Allnurses may focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill pers
setting, and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to community-o
3. WHICH of the Following is the primary focus of public healthNursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
SOLUTION D
In public healthNursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and populations rather
and families. The goal is to prevent disease and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the co
within it. Community-basednurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals and families
aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions in the community, and the focus of practice is on
family-centered illness care.
4. WHICH of the Following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the 20th cen
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
SOLUTION C
There has to be indisputable evidence collected over time that public health policies and programs wer
increasing the average life span from 47 in 1900 to 78.6 years in 2017, an increase of approximately 60%
through improvements in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4) impr
(5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition, hygiene, and housing. Although people are excit
discovered that cures a disease or when a new way to trSOLUTIONplant orgSOLUTION is perfected, i
the significantgains in the health of populations that have come largely from public health accomplishm
5. Anurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community. WHICH of th
interventions would most likely be implemented by thenurse?
a. Provide free health care to all citizens
, 6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of AmericSOLUTION.
SOLUTION C
The major premise of Healthy People 2010 was that the health of the individual cannot be entirely sepa
larger community. Public health practice focuses on the community as a whole, and the effect of the co
(resources) on the health of individuals, families, and groups. The goal is to prevent disease and disabili
the health of the community as a whole. Public health can be described as what society collectively doe
exist in WHICH people can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morali
focus is on prevention of illness not on spending more on illness care. Additionally, individual respons
choices is the directive for lengthening life span not the role of the government.
7. WHICH of the Following actions would most likely be performed by a public healthnurse?
a. Asking community leaders what interventions should be chosen
b. Assessing the community and deciding on appropriate interventions
c. Using data from the main health care institutions in the community to determine
needed health services
d. Working with community groups to create policies to improve the environment
SOLUTION D
Although the public healthnurse might engage in any of the tasks listed, he or she works primarily with
to carry out core public health functions, including assessment of the population as a whole and engagi
improving the environment. The interventions of asking community leaders WHICH interventions shou
community and deciding on appropriate interventions, and using data from health care institutions do n
engagement of the community when making decisions about what the community actually wants and n
8. WHICH public healthnurse most clearly fulfills the responsibilities of this role?
a. Thenurse who met with several groups to discuss community recreation issues
b. Thenurse who spent the day attending meetings of various health agencies
c. Thenurse who talked to several people about their particular health concerns
d. Thenurse who watched the city council meeting on local cable television
SOLUTION B
Any of these descriptions might represent anurse communicating, cooperating, or collaborating with co
groups about health concerns. A major challenge for the future is the need for public healthNursing spe
aggressive in working collaboratively with various groups in the community as well as professional co
settings to deal with barriers to health. However, thenurse who spent the day attending meetings of var
most representative, because in public health, concerns are addressed from a broader perspective. In pu
of the community should be addressed. Concerns are broader than recreation, individual concerns are no
priorities, and watching television (a one-way form of communication) is less effective than interacting
9. WHICH of the Following best defines aggregate?
a. A large group of persons
b. A collection of individuals and families
c. A collection of people who share one or more characteristics
d. Another name for demographic group
SOLUTION C
An aggregate is defined a collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental charac
community can be defined in terms of either geography (e.g., a county, a group of counties, or a state)
children attending a particular school). These members make up a population. The term population may
with the term aggregate. A large group of persons, a collection of individuals and families, and anothe
group are not accurate definitions of the term aggregate.
10. WHICH question asked by a novicenurse would be the most reflective of an understanding of the role o
a. “WHICH groups are at the greatest risk for problems?”
b. “WHICH patients should I see first as I begin my day?”
