PUBLIC HEALTH REVISION/COMMUNITY HEALTH

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A nurse wants to have a better understanding of the physiological effects of selected chemicals. Which of the following individuals would provide the most useful information to the nurse? 2. A nurse w... ants to find information about environmental threats that are present in the community. Which of the following would be the best source of data for the nurse? 3. A nurse is assessing potential environmental health risks in the community. Which of the following would be the first step that the nurse should take? 4. A community citizen reports to the public health nurse that the city water in one neighborhood has had an unusual taste for the past few months. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first? 5. A nurse who works at the local hospital asks a public health nurse what might be causing her hands to become very sore and sensitive. Which of the following statements would be the most appropriate response by the public health nurse? 6. Which of the following statements about children and environmental hazards is correct? 7. Which of the following actions represents the use of secondary prevention to reduce environmental health risks? 8. An occupational health nurse at a local factory is using primary prevention strategies to reduce the environmental health risks among the employees. Which of the following activities would the nurse most likely implement? 9. A nurse wants to help keep the community environment safe. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the nurse to take? Which of the following best describes the purpose of local health departments making unannounced inspections of local restaurants? 11. A city has announced its plans to build a city dump near a community of poor and predominantly African-American citizens. Which of the following principles would the nurse be using when vocalizing opposition for this plan? A nurse is completing a basic health assessment. Which of the following questions should be asked by an environmentally aware nurse? A high school student considering a job in the restaurant industry after graduation asks a nurse about workplace safety issues. Which of the following acts would the nurse most likely discuss with the student The nurse is examining blood lead levels in school-age children 1 year after a community-wide education intervention. Which of the following phases of the nursing process is being implemented? A nurse practitioner has established a mobile clinic to vaccinate noninstitutionalized adults against influenza. Which of the following phases of the nursing process is being implemented? A public health nurse is assisting the community in dealing with the effects of lead paint poisoning. Which of the following activities would the nurse most likely complete? (Select all that apply.) 2. Which of the following are the major sources of air pollution in the United States? (Select all that apply.) 3. A nurse wants to use the principles of risk and outrage to improve an environmental hazard in the community. To accomplish this, which of the following actions would be taken by the nurse? (Select all that apply.) 4. Which of the following strategies would a nurse expect to be implemented by a typical state environmental agency? (Select all that apply.) 5. Which of the following actions would a nurse take when serving as an advocate for the community? (Select all that apply.) 1. A nurse is using analytic epidemiology when conducting a research project. Which of the following projects is the nurse most likely completing? 2. A nurse is employed as a nurse epidemiologist. Which of the following activities would most likely be completed by the nurse? 3. Which of the following actions by Florence Nightingale demonstrates her role as an epidemiologist? 4. Which of the following statements describes how nursing in the community is more challenging than nursing in an acute care setting? 5. Several small communities have applied for grant funding from the state department of health to help decrease their teenage pregnancy rate. Which of the following communities should the nurse suggest receiving funding first? . Between 2000 and 2005, 1000 of 10,000 young women ages 17 to 20 years at a university tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Of the 1000 diagnosed STIs, 300 were gonorrhea and 500 were chlamydia. Which of the following statements best summarizes these findings? 7. The nursing staff has attempted to screen the entire African-American population in the community for diabetes. Which of the following would provide immediate verification of the success of the nursing staffs efforts? 8. In a particular community, several high school students were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus Type 2 during the annual high school health fair. Over the next few years, the nursing staff developed and implemented educational programs about the risk factors for diabetes mellitus Type 2 and proper nutrition. Which of the following would be most useful for the nurses to use to determine if they are having any impact? 9. This year 600 of 8000 young women ages 17 to 20 years at a university health center tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Which of the following terms best describes this data? 10. A nursing staff has successfully screened for diabetes in the community. Which of the following might best persuade the health board to increase funding for diabetic clinics in this community? 11. A public health nurse found that out of the 70 people who ate the potato salad at a school picnic, 63 developed symptoms of food poisoning. Which of the following best describes the attack rate? 12. A man is diagnosed with prostate cancer. Which of the following data should the nurse know to answer the man when he asks, What are the chances Ill survive this thing? 13. Which of the following statistics is used by countries to compare the success of their health care systems? 14. A nurse is examining all of the various factors which can lead to disease. Which of the following models would the nurse most likely use? 15. A nurse is examining the various factors that lead to disease and suggests several areas where nurses could intervene to reduce future incidence of disease. Which of the following models would the nurse most likely use? 16. Which of the following actions would a nurse take to reduce the high incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in a community? 17. A school nurse wants to decrease the incidence of obesity in elementary school children. Which of the following describes a secondary prevention intervention that the nurse could implement? 18. A nurse advises a client with osteoporosis to have three servings of milk or dairy products daily. Which of the following levels of prevention is being used by the nurse? 19. A nurse has only a regular blood pressure cuff when conducting a health screening for all of the residents of a community. Which of the following may be lacking when obtaining blood pressure readings? 20. A nurse is administering a tuberculosis skin test to a client who has AIDS. Which of the following results should the nurse anticipate when using this screening test? 21. Persons in an auditorium may have been exposed to a disease. If they are infected, it is crucial that they receive immediate treatment and not take the disease home to their families. Which of the following characteristics would be most important to consider when selecting the screening test to be used? 22. A woman is sitting in a corner of the clinical waiting room, crying audibly. The nurse asks, Whats wrong? Can I help? The woman responds, They just told me I have a positive mammogram and I need to see my doctor for follow-up tests. I know Im going to die of cancer. How can I tell my family? Which of the following information does the nurse need to know in order to help the woman cope with this finding? 23. The administration at a local medical center examines the trends in health problems when developing long-range plans for staffing and space allocation. Which of the following sources of information would be most helpful? 24. Statistics clearly demonstrate that there are significantly more cases of a disease in one particular neighborhood than in all the rest of the city. Assuming all else is the same, which of the following is the most likely explanation for a single neighborhood having such a different pattern of illness? 25. Two women seem to agree on almost everything from favorite music to favorite media stars to the best way to prepare a meal. Which of the following best explains this similarity in the two women? 26. A nurse reports that in comparison to all the children in a particular school, the children who are members of the Cub Scouts have 0.3 risk for obesity before entering the sixth grade. Which of the following recommendations would the nurse make to the new parents of two boys who had just moved into this schools neighborhood? 27. A principal comments to the school nurse that it seems there are a lot more problems with asthma among the students than there were before the school was remodeled a couple of years ago. The nurse investigates the principals observation by reviewing all the school records to determine visits to the health office because of asthma by week and month for the past 5 years. Which of the following best describes the type of study the nurse is conducting? 28. Which of the following types of study should the nurse researcher choose if the goal is to identify the long-term benefits and risks of a particular nursing intervention for senior citizens living in the community? A teacher recommends that surveys to obtain data on drug use be given to high school students when they meet for various school organizations. Which of the following best describes why the nurse would reject this suggestion? 30. A nurse is investigating a bacterial illness that has caused a health problem in the community. Only some of the people exposed to the bacteria have become ill. Which of the following factors best explains why this would have happened? 1. Which of the following explains why contagious infections are becoming a central focus of public health? (Select all that apply.) 2. A nurse is concerned about the high incidence of STDs in the community college population and sets up a special STD screening. Which of the following groups of students would be encouraged to attend? (Select all that apply.) 3. A nurse is planning to host a health screening at a large urban mall. Which of the following variables will help the nurse determine which screenings should be included? (Select all that apply.) 4. A nurse believes a new mouth care procedure (MCP) is causing more mouth problems than it is helping to avoid. Which of the following must be present for the nurse to go to administration with confidence that the new mouth care procedure (MCP) is causing problems? (Select all that apply.) 1. Which of the following is the number one cause of death worldwide? 2. Which of the following places best describes where the incidence of Vancomycin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is currently rising? 3. During an outbreak of hepatitis A, nurses are giving injections of hepatitis A immunoglobulin to selected susceptible persons. Which of the following best describes the type of immunity that will follow the administration of these injections? 4. A man loudly protests his increased property tax bill right after the public health department has made a plea for more funds. Why, he asks, should my tax dollars be used to pay for their children to be immunized? Which of the following would be the best response by the nurse? 5. Which of the following components of the epidemiologic triangle contributes most to a female client developing a vaginal infection caused by fungi after successful treatment of her strep throat with antibiotics? 6. Which of the following best represents an example of infectious disease spreading via a vector? 7. A nurses Mantoux test is positive for exposure to tuberculosis. Which of the following conclusions should be drawn by the nurse? 9. Which of the following data would most likely be collected in a syndromic surveillance system? [Show More]

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