Which nursing action demonstrates advocacy?
Lobbying for health care reform
Conducting home visits
Screening for hypertension
Offering a smoking cessation program
Which is an example of the primary goal of public health?
Conducting an infant car seat safety check
Ensuring that a newly diagnosed 40-year-old hypertensive man takes his medication
Finding home care for a 70-year old client recuperating from a hip replacement
Contacting a local hospice to admit a terminally ill 60-year-old woman
The necessary basic preparation for public health nursing is a(n) _____ in nursing.
Baccalaureate degree
Associate's degree
Master's degree
Doctoral degree
The nurse who compares the rate of teenage pregnancy in various areas of the city is practicing the public health core function of:
Policy development
Assurance
Assessment
Prevention
A nurse who is studying chronic disease considers the multifactorial etiology of illness. What does this imply?
Focus should be on the factors or combinations and levels of factors contributing to disease.
Single organisms that cause a disease. such as cholera, must be studied in more detail
The recent rise in infectious disease is the main focus.
Genetics and molecular structure of disease is paramount.
A nurse takes action to protect the health, safety, and welfare of citizens, such as requiring immunizations of children before admission to school. Which of the following levels of power is being used?
Legislative
Judicial
Executive
Police
The public health nurse (PHN) must participate in the essential services of public health. Which of the following most accurately describes one of the essential services of public health?
Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
Working in law enforcement to regulate health and ensure safety
Diagnosing and investigating health problems in the world
Monitoring health status by completing a community assessment
Public health nursing is a specialty because:
It performs interventions at the acute care level
It has a distinct focus and scope of practice
It must be done by a registered nurse with a master's degree
It is focused on disadvantaged citizens
A nurse administers a rabies immunization post-exposure to an animal bite. Considering the interventions used with infectious disease, which of the following levels of prevention is being used?
tertiary prevention
secondary prevention
assessment
primary prevention
A nurse is providing information to a local newspaper about the presence of infectious diseases in the United States. Which of the following statements by the nurse is accurate?
It is the goal of the WHO to prevent the transmission of the plague by avoiding direct contact with inflicted individuals
Rabies is easily spread by contact with animals
The onset of tularemia is characterized by a distinct skin lesion often called a bull's-eye lesion
The United States is a certified polio free country
A nurse is conducting health screenings at a statewide health fair and identifies several clients who require referral to a provider. Which of the following statements by a client indicates a barrier to accessing health care?
"I would like to schedule an appointment with the local doctor in my town who speaks Spanish and English."
"I don't drive, and my son is only available to take me places in the morning."
"I can't take off during the day and the local after-hours clinic is no longer in operation."
"Only one doctor in a my town is a designated provider by my health maintenance organization."
An orderly process that considers ethical principles, client values, and professional obligation is:
Code for Nursing Practice
Ethical decision making
Accountability
Moral principles
The nurse is counseling a female who has recently tested positive for HIV. Which of the following will the nurse educate that the client is responsible for? (Select all that apply.)
Consider the risk of perinatal transmission
Inform health care providers about the HIV infection
Donate blood and plasma to others who are positive for the disease
Have regular medical evaluations and follow-ups
Disclose her HIV infection to her employer
A Public Health Nurse (PHN) implements a primary prevention intervention in the community. Which of the following is most likely being implemented?
physical therapy
pap smear
diet and exercise
blood pressure screening
A nurse is interviewing for a position at the local health department. When preparing for the interview, the nurse should find that which of the following are responsibilities of this agency? SATA
immunizations against infectious diseases
providing education to achieve community health goals
recording and analysis of health data
licensing of registered nurses
reporting communicable diseases to the CDC
A nurse is providing care to an individual who has Medicaid. Which of the following would most likely describe this individual?
An 85 year old female who has hypertension
A 70 year old male who is hearing impaired
A 25 year old female who is pregnant and is a member of an HMO
A 50 year old male who is blind
A 66 year old woman is retired and no longer has health insurance through her place of employment. Which program would be appropriate for her health insurance needs?
Medicaid
Economic Opportunity Act
Medicare
Social Security
Which health problem is in need of control in developed countries?
Malaria
Polio
Smallpox
Hepatitis
The public health nurse analyzes data related to the number and type of United States Environmental Protection agency air quality standards that a community failed to meet. This data is an example of using which community health profile indicator?
Health risk factor
Functional status
Sociodemographic characteristics
Health status
A community health nurse is implementing health programs with several populations in the local area. In which of the following situations is the nurse using primary prevention?
Teaching healthy nutrition to clients who have hypertension
Implementing a program to notify individuals exposed to a communicable disease
Performing a home safety check at a client's home
Providing influenza immunizations to employees at a local preschool
One case of smallpox in a population in which it was considered to be previously eliminated. Which of the following best describes what has occurred?
Endemic
Infectivity
Epidemic
Pandemic
Which statement about race is true?
No social significance is usually placed on race
In the US, children of biracial parents are usually assigned the race of the father
Ethnicity and race are synonymous terms
Individuals may be of the same race but of different cultures
In the US, the majority of health care dollars are spent on:
Physician services
Public health services
Hospital care
Prescription drugs
An 80 year old woman comes to the community health center with a large bag of medications. She tells the nurse she can no longer afford these medications because her only income is Social Security. Which statement is the best response by the nurse?
"These medications are important. Do your best to pay for them."
"Let's go through these medications and see which ones we can delete."
"You can get these medications at this clinic for free."
"Let's see if we can get some help from Medicare to pay for these medications. I will refer you to our social worker."
Which of the following groups would be most likely to receive an injection of prophylactic immune globulin for possible exposure to hepatitis A?
All health care workers
All those who had household or sexual contact with a persons with hepatitis A
Those who ate at the same restaurant as the person with hepatitis A
Persons who have had direct contact with blood
The ability of an agent to produce a severe pathologic reaction is known as:
antigenicity
invasiveness
toxicity
virulence
A community health nurse is caring for a client with MRSA. Which of the following should the nurse be aware of?
MRSA is a hospital-acquired infection and not often seen in the community
MRSA is becoming more common in the community
Persons with MRSA usually have a chronic illness
VRE follows MRSA
Collecting data and monitoring the health status of the population defines which of the core public health functions?
Public health practice is an appealing specialty to nurses because of its:
Interactions with wealthy contributors to secure funding
Autonomy and independence of practice
Ability to locate the source of diseases and cure patients
Opportunities to meet a variety of people
The primary purpose of the World Health Organization is to:
Coordinate surveillance at the global level
Provide humanitarian support in times of disaster
Prevent the transmittal of communicable disease among nations of the world
Prevent outbreaks of disease
The state leaders decide not to tell the citizens of a poor town about chemicals in the water that could produce harmful efforts. Which principle are they violating?
Caring
Policy
Advocacy
Virtue
The federal agency of the public health system that is most involved with the health and welfare of the US citizens is the:
Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services
Secretary for Health
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Services
Public health practitioners prepared at the graduate level should be able to:
Diagnose and treat disease and have prescriptive authority
Assess and intervene successfully at the aggregate level
Teach public and community health nursing
Run for political office as experts in public health policy
A nurse is reviewing the various roles of a community health nurse. Which of the following is an example of a nurse functioning as a consultant?
Advocating for federal funding of local health screening programs
Updating state officials about health needs of the local community
Facilitating discussion of a client's ongoing needs with an interprofessional team
Performing health screenings for high blood pressure at a local health fair
A public health nurse is examining several issues with daily practice. Which of the following issues would be considered an ethical dilemma?
Applying the principles of Florence Nightingale in Bangladesh
Deciding to withdraw care on a hospice patient
Whether or not to establish a community health center in a rural area
Allocating resources in a natural disaster
