Community Health Midterm

Question 1

o Screening

Answer 1

identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in
populations.

Question 2

o Surveillance

Answer 2

“an ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to
the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice”

Question 3

o Referral

Answer 3

makes a connection to necessary resources to prevent or resolve problems or concerns. Follow-up
assesses outcomes related to the utilization of the resources.

Question 4

o Health teaching

Answer 4

involves sharing information and experiences through educational activities designed to
improve health knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills

Question 5

o Coalition building

Answer 5

helps promote and develop alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common
purpose. It builds links, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns

Question 6

o Collaboration

Answer 6

enhances the capacity to promote and protect health for mutual benefit and a common purpose.
Collaboration involves exchanging information, harmonized activities, and shared resources

Question 7

o Aggregate population

Answer 7

groups of people with common or similar problems that can be very broad or specific; population-based approach

Question 8

o Community

Answer 8

group of people

Question 9

o Qualitative data

Answer 9

check

Question 10

o Quantitative data

Answer 10

numbers

Question 11

o Community nursing diagnosis

Answer 11

look this up

Question 12

o Risk

Answer 12

check

Question 13

o Windshield Survey

Answer 13

check

Question 14

changes organizations, policies, laws and power structures. Often impacts population health in a more effective and lasting ways than changing individuals

Answer 14

Systems-focused

Question 15

changes community norms, attitudes, awareness, practices ad behaviors of a community or population. Measured by the proportion of the population that actually changes their behavior

Answer 15

Community-focused

Question 16

changes knowledge attitudes, beliefs, practices and behaviors of individuals and families. Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population at risk

Answer 16

Individual/family-focused

Question 17

“an ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to
the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice

tracking case numbers

Answer 17

MN wheel: surveillance

Question 18

systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health
of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and others at risk, and determines control
measures.

contact tracing

Answer 18

MN wheel: disease and health event investigation

Question 19

locates populations of interest or populations at risk and provides information about the nature of the
concern, what can be done about it, and how to obtain services

organization of free testing events

Answer 19

MN wheel: outreach

Question 20

covid testing
identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in
populations.

Answer 20

MN wheel: screening

Question 21

places health issues on decision-makers’ agendas, establishes a plan of resolution,
determines needed resources, and results in laws, rules and regulations, ordinances, and policies. Policy
enforcement compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created in
conjunction with policy development.

legally changing laws/mandates for health

Answer 21

MN wheel: policy development & enforcement

Question 22

process “that uses marketing principles and techniques to change target audience
behaviors to benefit society as well as the individual”

CDC mask wearing flyers

Answer 22

MN wheel: social marketing

Question 23

act of promoting and protecting the health of individuals and communities “by collaborating
with relevant stakeholders, facilitating access to health and social services, and actively engaging key decisionmakers to support and enact policies to improve community health outcomes”

bringing public health issue to light at a meeting

Answer 23

MN wheel: advocacy

Question 24

“the process by which people come together to identify common problems or goals,
mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the objectives they want to accomplish”

Answer 24

MN wheel: community-organizing

Question 25

helps promote and develop alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common
purpose. It builds links, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns

Answer 25

MN wheel: coalition building

Question 26

enhances the capacity to promote and protect health for mutual benefit and a common purpose.
Collaboration involves exchanging information, harmonized activities, and shared resources

Answer 26

MN wheel: collaboration

Question 27

seeks information and generates optimal solutions to perceived problems or issues through
interactive problem-solving.

Answer 27

MN wheel: consultation

Question 28

involves establishing an interpersonal relationship at an emotional level, with the goal of increased
or enhanced capacity for self-care and coping.

Answer 28

MN wheel: counseling

Question 29

involves sharing information and experiences through educational activities designed to
improve health knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills

motivational interviewing

Answer 29

MN wheel: health teaching

Question 30

include: 1) direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority
of a health care practitioner, as allowed by law, and 2) direct care tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts
to other appropriate personnel to perform

Answer 30

MN wheel: delegated functions

Question 31

collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation,
and advocacy for options and services to meet client needs. It uses communication and available resources to
promote safety, quality of care, and cost-effective outcomes.

Answer 31

MN wheel: case management

Question 32

makes a connection to necessary resources to prevent or resolve problems or concerns. Follow-up
assesses outcomes related to the utilization of the resources.

Answer 32

MN wheel: referral and follow up

Question 33

primary prevention

Answer 33

teaching/immunization

Question 34

secondary prevention

Answer 34

screening/mammogram

Question 35

tertiary prevention

Answer 35

treatment of symptoms

Question 36

characteristics of good partnerships in public health

Answer 36

look up in book

Question 37

epidemiologic triangle

Answer 37

agent

host environment

Question 38

community health nursing diagnoses

Answer 38

Incorporate information from the community assessment, general nursing knowledge and epidemiological concepts (especially the concept of risk)
Example: Risk of low birth weight among adolescents who are pregnant in the downtown area related to low income status, lack of availability of nutritious food, and tobacco use as evidenced by lack of secure housing, food bank use, increased rate of unemployment, and smoking among pregnant adolescents

Risk of__________ Among_______ R/T___________

Question 39

ADPIE

Answer 39

see slide 3 in ADPIE overview slideshow

Question 40

Be familiar with primary sources of data in community assessment (windshield surveys, participant observation, key informant interviews, focus groups) and what these are.

Answer 40

Ch. 18 pg. 404

Question 41

• Be aware of historic trends in public health nursing (industrial revolution, WWI & WWII, 1950’s, 1960’s – 1970’s, 1980’s – 1900’s

Answer 41

check

Question 42

• Review the basic components of motivational interviewing

Answer 42

https://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/motivational-interviewing-open-questions-affirmation-reflective-listening-and-summary