NURS 327 Midterm Exam With Verified Questions and Answers
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NURS 327
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NURS 327
esponsibility for regulating health care and overseeing the health
status of Americans is which of the following?
A. Department of Homeland Security
B. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
C. Local Health Department
D. State Department of Health - answerB. U.S. Department of Health and...
NURS 327 Midterm Exam With Verified
Questions and Answers
In 1988, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report on the future of public health and its
mission that defined public health as:
a. what public-private partnerships do to treat vulnerable populations.
b. what the government does to ensure that vital programs are in place.
c. what the U.S. Public Health Service does to prevent disease, promote health, and deliver
services.
d. what society does collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy. -
answer✔✔d. what society does collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be
healthy.
A state public health region reported 39 cases of meningitis in children 15 years of age and
younger to date this year. Seven of those children died. The total population of the region is
780,000, of whom 84,000 are children age 15 years old and younger. Only four cases of
meningitis were reported in the public health region during the previous year. No other public
health region in the state has an incidence of meningitis that is higher than expected for that
region. Based on the information given, the relative frequency of meningitis in the region at this
time can best be described as:
a. endemic.
b. epidemic.
c. pandemic.
d. sporadic. - answer✔✔b. epidemic.
Public health nursing practice is guided by the community's priorities as identified by
community:
D. planning - answer✔✔A. assessment
A nursing diagnosis of increased risk for delayed development, injury, and disease because of
inadequate parenting by a primary parent experiencing depression would most likely indicate
that the nursing process is being applied at the _______ level of practice and the _______ level
of prevention.
A. individual/family; secondary
B. community; primary
C. community; secondary
D. individual/family; primary - answer✔✔D. individual/family; primary
The agency that assumes the responsibility for regulating health care and overseeing the health
status of Americans is which of the following?
A. Department of Homeland Security
B. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
C. Local Health Department
D. State Department of Health - answer✔✔B. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The most important aspect of the nursing community assessment phase can best be described as:
A. analyzing and synthesizing data
B. collecting and gathering data
C. formulating a community nursing diagnosis
D. identifying problem correlates - answer✔✔C. formulating a community nursing diagnosis
The public health nurse is planning community programs. Which program would the nurse plan
to incorporate utilitarianism?
A. Ensuring vaccinations in poorer neighborhoods
B. Providing vaccinations to low-income senior centers
C. Using stakeholders to determine priority areas for vaccinations
D. Widespread influenza vaccination events - answer✔✔
The most important features of the Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2010 that the
community-oriented nurse needs to understand include which of the following? (Select all that
apply.)
A. Transforms the health care system from a sick care system to health care system
B. Uses piecemeal approach to strengthen the safety net
C. Replaces the rational equitable health care system
D. Provides insurance reform
E. Increases access to affordable health care insurance - answer✔✔A, D, and E
A nurse has been newly appointed as commissioner of the state health department services. The
programs the nurse will oversee will most likely include which of the following?
A. Administration of Medicare reimbursement rates and eligibility determination
B. Programs involving the local community, including sanitation and communicable disease
contact tracing
C. Disaster response, health care financing and administration of programs such as Medicaid,
and establishment of health codes
D. Monitoring drugs and over-the-counter products available for sale and use by consumers. -
answer✔✔C. Disaster response, health care financing and administration of programs such as
Medicaid, and establishment of health codes
John Snow played a critical role in the development of modern disease surveillance when he did
which of the following?
a. Devised a more statistically valid method of analyzing epidemiologic data
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