A nurse is employed by a local health department. Which of the following would be one of her primary responsibilities?
Providing appropriate treatment for the flu to an elderly man
Providing education to the community about prevention of the flu
Ensuring that the family members of the man with the flu get tested for the flu
Ensuring that the family members of the man with the flu receive the flu vaccine
A parish nurse is concerned about the number of parishioners who smoke. How would the parish nurse best address this issue?
Ban smoking on parish property
Invite local experts to participate in a health fair at the parish
Find literature about smoking cessation
Hand out free nicotine-replacement systems
Partnering with school-based clinics and local pediatric dentists so that children can have access to preventive dental care is an example of a(n):
codependent function
independent function
interdependent function
dependent function
Which of the following health concerns should the nurse have as a priority when planning care for a community?
The limited recreational areas identified through a windshield survey
The high crime rate reported in the town records
The absence of health clinics on the local bus route
The lack of grocery stores within walking distance identified by the community
A nurse who is new to the area wants to get a feel for the community she will be working with. Which of the following would be the best way for the nurse to start learning about the community?
Driving around the neighborhood
Going door to door asking people about the community
Searching online to obtain population statistics
Talking to the police captain at the local police department
A community believes many people in that community lead sedentary lives because they lack safe areas in which to exercise. What action should the nurse take in order to confirm or reject these beliefs?
Walk around the neighborhood
Interview members of the community
Obtain town morbidity and mortality rates
Go to the town hall to obtain the number of parks in the community
A nurse is interviewing members of a substance abuse unit at a local Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. Which of the following parts of a community is the nurse assessing?
Structure of a community
Subsystem of a community
Supra system of a community
Interaction of a community
The study of a population is referred to as (a):
community pattern
windshield survey
demography
community diagnosis
The process of dynamic change with adaptation in the systems parts, and how community systems and subsystems interact is known as:
structure of a community
community health promotion
function of a community
A nurse is assessing a community from both a developmental and risk perspective. Which of the following characteristics would be of most interest to the nurse?
Gender
Age
Race
Socioeconomic level
Using developmental theory, a community nurse assesses the community and determines that the majority of residents who are 45 years of age or older lead sedentary lives. Which of the following would be the priority for this nurse to promote?
Health promotion activities
Accident prevention activities
Drug prevention activities
Pregnancy prevention activities
Which of the following demonstrates the nurse using subjective data to indicate a health concern in the health-perception health-management pattern?
Examining high sexually transmitted disease rates recorded by the health department
Listening to community members discuss the high smoking rate among teenagers
Analyzing the high infant mortality rate reported by state hospitals
Discussing the high rate of teenage motor vehicle crashes recorded by the local police department
After assessing the community, the nurse concludes that the community is having difficulty meeting its nutritional-metabolic pattern. Which of the following findings would the nurse most likely have discovered during the assessment?
Decreased availability of grocery stores
Poor nutritional habits
Lack of subsidized food programs
Inadequate knowledge about proper nutrition
A nurse is assessing a communitys exposure to pollutants by examining contaminated soil, air, water, and food. Which functional health pattern is being assessed by the nurse?
Nutritional-metabolic pattern
Elimination pattern
Health-perception health management pattern
Values-beliefs pattern
Which functional health pattern provides information about problem-solving and decision making within communities?
Cognitive-perceptual pattern
Self-perception self-concept pattern
Coping-stress tolerance pattern
Health-perception health-management pattern
Within a community there is an elevated high-school dropout rate and its high school students are experiencing a decreased sense of self-worth. Based on this data, the community is at highest risk to experience an alteration in which of the following functional health patterns?
Role-relationships pattern
Sexuality-reproduction pattern
A nurse is working with a community that is experiencing an alteration in its values-beliefs pattern. Which of the following is most likely to result because of a disturbance in this functional health pattern?
Respiratory disorders
Hearing loss
Coronary artery disease
Stress
A nurse is using the technique of mapping while implementing the nursing process in the community setting. The nurse is engaging in which aspect of the nursing process?
Collection
Planning
Analysis
Implementation
A nurse is collecting data regarding the number of crosswalks within a community. Which perspective is being used to gather this data?
Developmental perspective
Functional perspective
Risk-factor perspective
Systems perspective
A community nurse has collected rates of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents involving teenagers. Which action should the nurse take next?
Develop a plan to address the high rates of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents
Partner with high school nurses to educate students about the risks of drinking and driving
Diagnose the community with ineffective health management patterns related to the high levels of drunk driving
Establish support groups for teenagers with alcohol abuse
In response to the growing elderly population, community health nurses should do which of the following? (select all that apply)
Work with the board of education to emphasize the importance of adequate physical activity for children and the importance of healthy meals
Work with local nursing schools to emphasize the importance of geriatric training in the curriculum
Work with the state and local departments of health to devise a plan to increase nursing home beds
Work with local health departments to increase recreational activities for elderly members of the community
Which of the following is a stage of change? (select all that apply)
Reflection
Action
Maintenance
Acceptance
