Nipissing University NSGD 3007 EXAM REVIEW: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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1. Change for the community as client must often occur at several levels because:
a. Health problems caused by lifestyle are multidimensional.
b. Most individuals can change their habits alone.
c. Aggregates are responsible for social change.
d. Geographic areas often have health risks that the...
NSGD 3007 EXAM REVIEW:EXAM
COMMUNITY
Review: QUIZLET HEALTH NURSING
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
Community COMPLETE
Health Nursing: ANSWERSSOLUTIONS
1. Change for the community as client must often occur at several levels because:
a. Health problems caused by lifestyle are multidimensional.
b. Most individuals can change their habits alone.
c. Aggregates are responsible for social change.
d. Geographic areas often have health risks that the nurse must identify.
2. A nurse cares for the community as the client when focusing on:
a. Providing care for aggregates living in the community
b. The collective good of the population
c. The provision of care for families in the home setting
d. Providing health education in the community
3. A collection of individuals who have in common one or more personal or environmental
characteristics is the definition of a(n):
a. Community
b. Group
c. Family
d. Aggregate
4. What are the critical attributes in the definition of community?
a. Families, groups, and health organizations
b. Health needs, geographical boundaries, and target population
c. People, place, and functions
d. Populations and health resources
5. A group of nursing students forms a student nursing association to provide support while
they are enrolled in a nursing program. This is known as a community of:
a. Place
b. Special interest
c. Problem ecology
d. Function
,6. A public health nurse is collecting data about the biological aspects of community health.
What data will the nurse collect?
a. Race/ethnicity
b. Traditional morbidity and mortality rates
c. Policy making and social change
d. Homicide rates
7. A community that has residents who are very involved in its activities and encourage
activities that promote the health of the community displays which condition of community
competence?
a. Commitment
b. Participation
c. Articulateness
d. Effective communication
8. Which data source provides information about the function of the community?
a. Maps
b. Census data
c. State departments, business and labor, local library
d. Civic groups
9. Which characteristic is an indicator of community health process?
a. Participation and community action
b. Live birth rate
c. Racial distribution
d. Socioeconomic levels
10. A community that demonstrates commitment would most likely support the
development of a:
a. Community club to facilitate community involvement
b. Children's recreation program
c. Curb-side recycling program and community-based education about recycling
d. Cooperative agreement with a neighboring city to share needed services
,11. The main characteristics of partnership are:
a. Awareness, flexibility, and distribution of power
b. Rights, responsibilities, and consensus
c. Commitment, participation, and articulation
d. Collaboration, advocacy, and utility
12. When completing a community assessment, the nurse will:
a. Identify community needs and clarify problems.
b. Determine the weaknesses of a community.
c. Perform the core functions of public health nursing.
d. Assess individual needs within a community.
13. When a nurse focuses intervention strategies on the structural dimension of community
health, they are directed toward:
a. Health services
b. Primary prevention
c. Health promotion
d. Secondary prevention
14. Which characteristic is an indicator of community health structure?
a. Infant mortality rate
b. Effective communication
c. Crime rate
d. Emergency room utilization
15. After identifying the boundaries of a community, what is the next step the nurse should
take in completing a community assessment?
a. Gather relevant existing data and generating missing data.
b. Plan interventions that benefit the entire community.
c. Formulate nursing diagnoses.
d. Evaluate the interventions that were used.
16. What intervention would be the most appropriate for the nurse to use when trying to
develop community partnerships?
a. Involve only the community residents.
b. Use nurses as the source of information and leadership.
c. Rely on the power of local officials.
d. Include a variety of disciplines.
, 17. When writing a community-level diagnosis, "Among" refers to the:
a. Specific problem or health risk faced by the community
b. Characteristics of the community
c. Community client experiencing the risk or problem
d. Likelihood that the problem will be solved
18. Which nursing diagnosis is written at the community-level?
a. Risk of hypertension related to poor diet and sedentary lifestyle
b. Risk of obesity among school-age children related to lack of opportunities to engage in
physical activity
c. Risk of ineffective health maintenance among individuals who do not have access to a primary
care provider
d. Ineffective coping related to multiple stressors as evidenced by client crying and stating she
has no support system
19. A nurse surveys the school nurses in a community to determine their roles in the schools
because this data is not available. The nurse is engaging in the process of data:
a. Collection
b. Gathering
c. Generation
d. Interpretation
20. A nurse schedules an appointment with a physician who has a practice in the
community to learn more about the community's beliefs regarding childhood
immunizations. This is known as:
a. Informant interview
b. Participant observation
c. Secondary analysis
d. Windshield survey
21. When conducting informant interviews in a small community, the nurse would most
likely contact:
a. The state department of health for death records
b. A local priest for congregation information
c. Surrounding communities for crime comparison
d. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for illnesses in the area
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