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As a guest speaker for a group of community health nurses who are considering corrections nursing as a career, a corrections nurse provides an overview of the history of corrections nursing. Which of the following would the nurse describe as the historic view
of corrections nursing?
A) Health care to inmates occurred primarily as
emergency treatment.
B) Inmates were viewed as not deserving care
paid by public dollars.
C) The emphasis was on corrections, not
punishment.
D) Prisons provided safe havens from
communicable diseases.
B) Inmates were viewed as not deserving care
paid by public dollars.
Which of the following activities best reflects a public health nurse's role in the public health function of assessment?
A) Prioritizing the issues of a community to
determine appropriate interventions
B) Evaluating for potential safety hazards in a
childcare center
C) Ensuring that children in a day care center are
properly immunized
D) Working with officials to develop a program
for solving a problem
A) Prioritizing the issues of a community to determine appropriate interventions
A nurse is considering a career in public health nursing. The nurse determines the need to obtain which of the following for entry level practice?
A) Associate's degree in nursing
B) Bachelor's degree in nursing
C) Master's degree in nursing
D) Post-master's degree certification
B) Bachelor's degree in nursing
When describing the differences between public health nursing and nursing in general, which of the following would an instructor include as characteristic of public health nursing? (SATA).
A) Acute care services
B) Focus on the greater good
B) Department of Homeland Security
C) Department of Agriculture
D) Department of Health and Human Services
D) Department of Health and Human Services
A public health nurse is employed by the Indian Health Services. This nurse is working at which of the following levels?
A) Local
B) Community
C) State
D) Federal
D) Federal
After teaching a group of students about public health nursing and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the instructor determines that the students need additional instruction when they state which of the following is necessary to qualify for a
position in the Corps?
A) Age over 45 years
B) Bachelor's degree in nursing
C) Valid nursing license
D) U.S. citizenship
A) Age over 45 years
A public health nurse working with several communities to develop appropriate programs for health surveillance. Which agency would the nurse contact to obtain information on this topic?
A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B) National Institutes of Health
C) Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
D) Food and Drug Administration
A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A community health nurse is advocating for the development of school-based health
centers in the community high schools as a
means to accomplish which of the following?
A) Maintain the current absentee rate
B) Provide contraceptive services
C) Increase ready access to health care services
D) Promote increased use of emergency services
C) Increase ready access to health care services
Which one of the types of services that may be available in a school-based health center
may be controversial and not be supported by
all parents and community members?
Which of the following health conditions would the corrections nurse expect to address as most prevalent? (SATA).
A) Heart disease
B) Tuberculosis
C) Hepatitis C
D) Asthma
E) Substance abuse
B) Tuberculosis
C) Hepatitis C
E) Substance abuse
A school nurse functions to promote a healthy school environment. Which of the following would be most appropriate for the nurse to do?
A) Advocating for proper nutrition and exercise to prevent and reduce the incidence of
obesity in school-age children
B) Providing care for children with asthma
C) Developing individualized health plans
D) Engaging in incidental teaching about
A) Advocating for proper nutrition and exercise to prevent and reduce the incidence of
obesity in school-age children
A school nurse who is not a nurse practitioner works in an elementary school (K-4) with 1,200 students. Which of the following would the nurse engage in with this group? (SATA).
A) Screening for scoliosis
B) Vision and hearing screening
C) Teaching basic health practices
D) Monitoring chronic illnesses
E) Ordering medications
F) Providing primary care
B) Vision and hearing screening
C) Teaching basic health practices
D) Monitoring chronic illnesses
A school nurse is describing the responsibilities associated with this specialty to a group of students. Which of the following would the school nurse identify as a primary responsibility?
A) Providing care to children with special health
needs
B) Preventing illness among the school community
C) Performing health screenings
D) Assessing acute health problems
B) Preventing illness among the school community
A school nurse is reviewing the population of school age children for chronic conditions. Which of the following would the school nurse expect to find most often? (SATA)
A corrections nurse is working to develop programs for inmates and reviews the demographics of this population to determine potential issues. Which of the following would the nurse expect to find?
A) Greater portion of inmates who are white
B) Increasing numbers of women in prisons
C) Equal distribution of socioeconomic
backgrounds
D) Incarceration primarily for commission of
minor crimes
B) Increasing numbers of women in prisons
A corrections nurse is proactively working with the institution to develop programs for the facility to address problems to address the trends for the future. Which type of program would be most appropriate for the nurse to recommend?
A) Treatment of typical disorders found in
younger inmates
B) Dealing with older, sicker, and longer periods
of incarceration for many inmates
C) Clinics to address acute disease conditions
D) Education for release after shorter
incarcerations
B) Dealing with older, sicker, and longer periods of incarceration for many inmates
A corrections nurse is visiting a local nursing school to describe this career. Which of the following would the nurse include in the discussion?
A) Lower salaries than other fields
B) Primarily assessment oriented
C) Extensive employee benefits
D) Low safety risk
C) Extensive employee benefits
A school nurse is addressing the dental health issues of the local community of school children. Which activity would be most appropriate at the community level?
A) Educating parents about the importance of
oral health
B) Teaching children how to brush and floss
properly
C) Assisting with finding resources for those
without dental insurance
D) Advocating for the fluoridation of drinking
water
D) Advocating for the fluoridation of drinking water
Which of the following would the school nurse who is dealing with a primarily adolescent school population focus on? (SATA)
A) 1920s
B) 1940s
C) 1960s
D) 1980s
C) 1960s
When describing nurse managed health centers to a group of students, which of the following would the instructor emphasize?
A) Use as a vital safety net health care provider
B) An alternative to primary care for insured
persons
C) Focus on the individual in the community
D) Affiliation with a local acute care facility
A) Use as a vital safety net health care provider
After describing the various models for nurse- managed health centers, the instructor
determines that the student understand the information when they identify which organization
structure as being partnered legally with a human services organization?
A) Academic nursing center
B) Freestanding center
C) Subsidiary center
D) Affiliated center
D) Affiliated center
Which of the following statements about the focus of nurse-managed health centers is most accurate?
A) The focus is providing clinical experiences for nursing students.
B) They are truly community oriented.
C) They all have the same practice models.
D) They only focus on health promotion and
wellness.
B) They are truly community oriented.
A nursing instructor is preparing a group of students for a clinical rotation in a nurse managed health center. Which of the following would the instructor include when describing the students' role?
A) Clinical supervision
B) Passive participation
C) Use of tertiary-level activities
D) Implementation of best practices
D) Implementation of best practices
Which of the following would be the most
B) Grants can be used as a source of initial start up funding and/or to support ongoing activities.
C) It is common for nurse-managed health
clinics to receive funding from one primary source.
D) Contracts are awarded based on competition and are renewable when goals and objectives are not met.
B) Grants can be used as a source of initial start up funding and/or to support ongoing activities.
After discussing nurse-managed care centers with a group of community health nursing students, the instructor determines that the teaching was effective when the students identify which of the following as one of the main challenges?
A) Ensuring adequate populations for services
B) Exerting a positive influence on community's
health
C) Continuing services after funding has stopped
D) Managing the multitude of services provided
C) Continuing services after funding has stopped
Which party is usually required to describe detailed plans for sustainability after the award period ceases?
A) The client
B) The funder
C) The providing organization
D) The insurer
C) The providing organization
Which of the following statements about faith
community nursing is most accurate?
A) Nurses are uniquely able to focus on the
spiritual influences on health.
B) Faith community nursing is one of the newest
nursing specialties, and one of the oldest means of health care delivery.
C) Faith community nursing is restricted to
Christian religious institutions in the United States.
D) For hundreds of years, deaconesses, sisters, and lay members of religious communities have been engaged in health promotion
B) Faith community nursing is one of the newest nursing specialties, and one of the oldest means of health care delivery.
A community health nursing instructor is developing a class plan about faith community nursing for a group of community health nursing students. Which of the following would the instructor expect to
include?
A) One of the oldest nursing specialties
B) One of the newest means of health care
delivery
C) Diversity in activities and interventions
D) Differences from parish nursing
A) Advocate
B) Health educator
C) Volunteer coordinator
D) Health counselor
E) Case manager
F) Direct care provider
A) Advocate
B) Health educator
C) Volunteer coordinator
D) Health counselor
A faith community health networks with a local transportation service to provide service
to several clients in the community needing rides to health care appointments. The nurse is functioning in which of the following roles?
A) Developer of support groups
B) Referral agent
C) Advocate
D) Health counselor
B) Referral agent
Place in order, the steps involved in creating a faith community nursing position within a faith community. (SATA)
A) Seek support of the faith community members and staff.
B) Seek formal approval from the organization's governing body.
C) Assess the community the nurse plans to serve and identify the health needs of the faith community and the roles of the faith community nurse that meet those needs.
D) Solicit input from the staff and spiritual
leaders of the faith community.
A) Seek support of the faith community members and staff.
B) Seek formal approval from the organization's governing body.
C) Assess the community the nurse plans to serve and identify the health needs of the faith community and the roles of the faith community nurse that meet those needs.
D) Solicit input from the staff and spiritual
leaders of the faith community.
Which of the following are the main categories of occupational health nursing practice? (SATA)
A) Safety
B) Compliance
C) Health promotion
D) Care
B) Compliance
C) Health promotion
D) Care
