NURS 361 MIDTERM Exam Questions And
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True or False?
The mission of public health is social justice, which entitles all people to basic necessities such
as adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to make this possible -
answer✔✔True
What is a group or collection of locality based individuals, interacting in social units and sharing
common interests, characteristics, values and/or goals, resources, and the environment? -
answer✔✔Community
What is a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental
characteristics in common? Members of a community typically belong to many various
populations or subpopulations - answer✔✔Aggregate
Which of the following is an example of an aggregate or population?
A. Students in a county school system
B. A U of I nursing student providing H1N1 immunizations.
C. A patient in the intensive care unit at the local hospital
D. People who have seen the movie Titanic - answer✔✔A
What is the goal of Healthy People 2020? - answer✔✔Increase quality of life
What year did public health changes - gains in life expectancy? Attributed to improvements in
sanitation, water and food safety, control of infectious diseases, and immunizations? -
answer✔✔1900
In 1997, IOM published "Improving Health in the Community: Role for Performance
Monitoring" which challenged communities to identify local health indicators and develop a plan
to improve the health status of residents. What was the result? - answer✔✔IPLAN
What is a document that guides what we do for public health? - answer✔✔IPLAN
What are the three key roles of public health practice? The core functions -
answer✔✔Assessment, policy development, and assurance
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,What is systematic data collection on the population, monitoring of population's health status,
making information available on health of community?
•Windshield Survey, CDC Reports, Mortality and Morbidity Data - answer✔✔Assessment
What is the need to provide leadership in developing policies that support the health of the
population, including using scientific knowledge in making decisions about policy?
•Laws, Clean Air and Water Act, Health Care Reform - answer✔✔Policy development
What is the role of public health in making sure that essential community-oriented health
services are available; may include providing essential health services for those who would
otherwise not receive them? Also ensures a competent public health and personal health care
workforce is available.
•Skilled staff, provision of quality services - answer✔✔Assurance
•Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
•Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
•Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. - answer✔✔Assessment
•Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
•Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
•Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
•Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. - answer✔✔Policy
Development
•Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
•Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
•Ensure a competent public health and personal health care workforce.
•Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
•Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. - answer✔✔Assurance
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,What focuses on community as a whole and the effect of community health status (resources) on
the health of individuals, families and groups? - answer✔✔Public Health Nursing Practice
Focus is health of individuals, families, and groups and the effect on the health of the community
as a whole - answer✔✔Community Health Nursing Practice
Focus on individuals and families where they live, work, and go to school; care is setting-
specific and the emphasis is on acute and chronic care - answer✔✔Community-based Nursing
Practice
What tries to prevent problems before they occur? - answer✔✔Primary prevention
What type of prevention?
Vaccines, health education class, and hand-washing - answer✔✔Primary prevention
What involves screening, early detection and intervention? Early diagnosis and treatment -
answer✔✔Secondary prevention
What type of prevention?
Mammograms, Pap smears, and colonoscopy - answer✔✔Secondary prevention
What involves correction and prevention of deterioration of a disease state? Limitation of
disability and rehabilitation. Already been diagnosed with the disease. Limit the disability.
Overall management - answer✔✔Tertiary prevention
What type of prevention?
Working with individuals specifically with type 2 diabetes - answer✔✔Tertiary prevention
What type of prevention?
Education regarding smoking, dental care, or nutritional counseling
Adequate housing - answer✔✔Primary prevention
What type of prevention?
Dental examinations
Tuberculin testing for family at risk - answer✔✔Secondary prevention
What type of prevention?
Mental health counseling or referral for family in crisis (e.g., grieving or experiencing a divorce)
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, Dietary instructions and monitoring for family with overweight members - answer✔✔Tertiary
prevention
What type of prevention?
Birthing classes for pregnant teenage mothers
AIDS and other STD education for high school students - answer✔✔Primary prevention
What type of prevention?
Vision screening of second grade class
Mammography van for screening of women in a low-income neighborhood
Hearing tests at a senior center - answer✔✔Secondary prevention
What type of prevention?
Shelter and relocation centers for fire or earthquake victims
Emergency medical services
Community mental health services for chronically mentally ill
Home care services for chronically ill - answer✔✔Tertiary prevention
The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 is similar to which of the following current laws?
A. HIPPA
B. Medicaid
C. Medicare
D. ADA - answer✔✔B
Who worked during the Crimean War? - answer✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who established Henry Street Settlement in 1893 (along with Mary Brewster)? -
answer✔✔Lillian Wald
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