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COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENTTEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Community health - The identification of needs and the protection and improvement of
collective health within a geographically defined area
Public health - Activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which
people can be healthy
Public health nursing - Nursing that is community based and is population focused
Health promotion - All efforts that seek to move people closer to optimal well-being or
higher levels of wellness
Community - Collection of people who interact with one another and whose common
interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging
Aggregate - Mass or grouping of individuals considered as a whole who are loosely
associated with one another
Community health nursing - Field of nursing with a shift from individual to aggregate
Population - One characteristic of community health nursing is that ________ is the
client
Greatest number of people - One characteristic of community health nursing is that the
primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the ____________
Equal partner - One characteristic of community health nursing is that the processes
used include working with the client as an _____________
Primary - One characteristic of community health nursing is that _________ prevention
is the priority
All who might benefit - One characteristic of community health nursing is that there is an
obligation to actively reach out to _______________
Available resources - One characteristic of community health nursing is that optimal use
of ____________ is necessary
Collaboration - One characteristic of community health nursing is that _______ is key
A (teaching safe sex practices to teenagers) - Which activity would reflect a community
health nurse working at the primary prevention level?
, A. Teaching safe sex practices to teenagers
B. Performing adult hypertension screening
C. Encouraging women to do breast self-examination
D. Helping with a post mastectomy exercise program
Primary - Prevention level aimed to keep illness or injury from occuring
Secondary - Prevention level aimed to detect and treat existing disease
Tertiary - Prevention level aimed to reduce the extent and severity of a health problem
to its lowest possible level to minimize disability and restore or preserve function
C (providing skin testing for tuberculosis (PPD) to the homeless) - Which is an example
of secondary prevention?
A. Planning an educational program on healthy lifestyles
B. Discussing healthy menu planning with diabetic clients
C. Providing skin testing for tuberculosis (PPD) to the homeless
D. Transporting clients to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings
Lillian Wald - ___________ was the first person to use the term "public health nursing"
Lillian Wald - ________ created the Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing practice staffed by both nurses
and social workers, created by Lillian Wald
False - Is the following statement true or false? Florence Nightingale was the first
person to use the term "public health nursing."
Florence Nightingale - ________ established sanitary nursing care units and is
considered the founder of modern nursing
Nightingale model - A standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in
practice
Early home care nursing (pre 1800s)
District nursing (1800s - 1900)
Public health nursing (1900 - 1970)
Community health nursing (1970 - present) - The 4 stages of community health nursing
development
Early home care nursing - The name for the stage of community health nursing
development that occurred before the 1800s
District nursing - The name for the stage of community health nursing development that
occurred from 1800s to 1900
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