C ExamTO Flashcards
- A public health nurse is preparing a teaching session with a group of nursing students. She
told them that some diseases infect people in different parts of the world, in many countries.
Which one of these is an example of Pandemic disease?
•HIV/AIDS/H1N1
COVID
- A nurse is employed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(USDHHS). Which of the following branches of government is the nurse working for?
A. Executive branch - federal nationwide - MEDICARE
B. judicial
C. Legislative - state provided given by them - MEDICAID
D. health
A. Executive branch - federal nationwide - MEDICARE
- A doctoral prepared nurse (PhD) at a university wants to submit a grant to study the impact
of a nursing activity on patient outcomes. From which of the following federal agencies could
this nurse potentially seek funding?
•NINR National Institute of Nursing Research
- A nurse investigates the interpretation of a state’s right to grant abortions. Which of
the following branches of government would the nurse be looking at?
A. Judicial Branch
B. Executive
C. Legislative
D. Federal
A. Judicial Brance
- A nurse researcher wants to get information on the occurrence of an internationally important
disease. Which of the following websites would be the best place to seek this information?
A. •World Health Organization (WHO)
B. The united nations
C. The world bank
D. The world health assembly
WHO
- The Office of Homeland Security has a mission to rebuild the crumbling public
health infrastructures of each state and provide?
a. •Surveillance of bioterrorism threats
b. Vaccines for smallpox, anthrax, and plague
c. Regulation of nuclear weapons
d. Regulation of foreign nurses entering the united states
A
- The practices of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers are differentiated
by which of the following:
a. •Scope of practice
b. Health resources and services administration
c. State board of nursing
d. USDHHS
Scope of practice
- A night nurse in an acute care hospital forgot to instruct a patient to be on NPO status for
appendix surgery preparation, which was scheduled for the morning. The OR nurse found the
patient eating cookies upon arrival to pick the patient for surgery. Even though the nurse had a
very busy night, she is guilty of professional negligence for all the reasons except:
- A nurse who is working in a home care setting attends a local legislative meeting. WHich
of the ff best describes why the nurse needs to be knowledgeable of health policy?
a. •Receive payment for the services provided
b. Provide safe nursing
c. Prevent elder abuse
d. Influence future legislation
Receive payment for service provided
- A nurse who is working in a home care setting attends a local legislative meeting. Which
of the following best describes why the nurse needs to be knowledgeable of health policy?
•Receive payment for the services provided
The cornerstones of public health nursing practice include all of the following
EXCEPT
E. •Are grounded in an ethic collaboration
D. provide a framework for ethical decision making (social justice)
A nursing student develops a teaching plan about hand washing to present to a group of
elementary school children at the local school. Which of the following public health
intervention is being implemented?
a. •Health teaching
b. Surveillance
c. Collaboration
d. Screening
Health teaching
The levels of practice encompassed by the Intervention Wheel are:
a. •Communities, individuals, and families, and systems
b. Assessment, diagnosis, and evaluation
c. Primary, secondary, tertiary
d. Communities, population, and aggregates
A
A PHN is assessing the community’s health. Which of the following is being
accomplished through this activity?
a. •Assess a social network of interacting individuals usually in a defined territory
b. Define one problem that will be the focus for a year
c. Minimize the effects of health risks and hazards
d. Intervene at the population level by changing level by changing laws and regulations
A
A social marketing campaign urging community members to avoid driving motorized vehicles
after consuming alcohol is implemented in a local community. Which of the following levels
of practice is being demonstrated?
a. •Community
b. Individual
c. Systems
d. Government
A
Question 16
Public health interventions are implemented with
a. •Individuals and families, communities, and systems
b. legislators , policy makers, and community leaders
c. Children, adolescents, and adults
d. Health departments, public health agencies, and visiting nurses associations
A
Question 17
Which statement about the Intervention Wheel is true?
a. It is resulted from a grounded theory process carried out by public health
consultants at the Minnesota Department of Health
b. A panel of nurses from iowa,
c. minnesota, north dakota, south dakota, and wisconsin developed and refined the
intervention wheel
d. It was conceived by a group of international nurses from norway, kazakhstan and
japan
e. It was a result of a qualitative analysis carried out by the state boards of nursing.
A
A Mexican American mother insists on using special candles to help her daughter’s ear
infection. The nurse asks the mother if she would also give her daughter antibiotics. Which of
the following best describes the action of the nurse?
a. Cultural •Accommodation
b. Cultural brokering
c. Cultural awareness
d. Cultural repatterning
A
Question 19
What statement about the nursing workforce is true?
a. •Enhance racial and ethnic diversity in the nursing workforce / goal of division of nursing
b. The nursing workforce is overwhelming white
c. The number of minority nurses meets the needs of the countries demographics
d. The nursing workforce is becoming increasingly diverse with increasing minorities
e. Refugees make up a large part of the nursing workforce in some areas
AB
Question 20 A nurse is completing an exposure history using the mnemonic I PREPARE. What data would a nurse collect when asking questions about the first “P” ? a. •Present Work b. Potential exposures c. Personal protective equipment use d. Problems with health I-Investigate potential exposure P-Present work R-Residence E-Environmental concerns P-Past work A-Activities R-Referrals/resources E-Educate
A
