NUR 410: Nursing Concepts for
Community and Public Health Exam 1
2024
___ describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection,
analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing,
and evaluating public health interventions.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - ANSWERD. Surveillance
___ systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health of
populations and ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and others at risk,
and determines control measures.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - ANSWERB. Disease investigation
___ locates populations of interest or populations at risk and provides information about
the nature of the concern, what can be done about it, and how services can be
obtained.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - ANSWERC. Outreach
___ identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease
conditions in populations.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - ANSWERA. Screening
___ locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with
resources.
A. Surveillance
B. Screening
C. Outreach
D. Case-finding - ANSWERD. Case-finding
,___ represents direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the
authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated functioned also
include any direct care tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts to other
appropriate personnel to perform.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - ANSWERD. Delegated functions
___ communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values,
beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - ANSWERA. Health teaching
___ establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, family, or
individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping. It
engages the community, a system, family, or individual at an emotional level.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - ANSWERB. Counseling
___ seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems or issues
through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family, or individual. The
community, system, family, or individual selects and acts on the option best meeting the
circumstances.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - ANSWERC. Consultation
___ commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through
enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health.
A. Consultation
B. Collaboration
C. Advocacy
D. Counseling - ANSWERB. Collaboration
___ promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a
common purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership
to address health concerns.
A. Collaboration
B. Community organizing
,C. Coalition building
D. Policy development - ANSWERC. Coalition building
___ helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources,
and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
A. Coalition building
B. Social marketing
C. Policy development
D. Community organizing - ANSWERD. Community organizing
___ pleads someone's cause or act on someone's behalf, with a focus on developing
the community, system, individual, or family's capacity to plead their own cause or act
on their own behalf.
A. Consultation
B. Community organizing
C. Advocacy
D. Policy enforcement - ANSWERC. Advocacy
___ utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to
influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the
population of interest.
A. Social marketing
B. Policy development
C. Coalition building
D. Policy enforcement - ANSWERA. Social marketing
___ places health issues on decision makers' agendas, acquires a plan of resolution,
determines resources needed, and results in laws, rules and regulations, ordinances,
and policies.
A. Collaboration
B. Coalition building
C. Policy development
D. Social marketing - ANSWERC. Policy development
___ compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies
created in conjunction with policy development.
A. Policy development
B. Coalition building
C. Advocacy
D. Policy enforcement - ANSWERD. Policy enforcement
___ level of intervention changes community norms, attitudes, awareness, practices,
and behaviors.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERA. Community
, ___ level of intervention changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors
of individuals.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERB. Individual/family
___ level of intervention changes organizations, policies, laws, and power structures
within communities.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERC. Systems
Parents of non-imminized school-aged children are talked to by the school nurse about
the importance of immunizing their children. This is an example of ___ level of practice.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERB. Individual/family
A PTA meeting is held to discuss the importance of immunizing children and the
potential effects of not immunizing children. This is an example of ___ level of practice.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERA. Community
A school news letter is sent out to all parents of the children in an elementary school to
address the importance of immunizing their children. This is an example of ___ level of
practice.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERA. Community
A public service announcement is made about conserving water during a drought. This
is an example of ___ level of practice.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERA. Community
The state and county health departments become involved in promoting health by
recommending that parents of school-aged children immunize them before the school
year begins. This is an example of ___ level of practice.
A. Community
B. Individual/family
C. Systems - ANSWERC. Systems