CommunityChapter4 Flashcards
A nurse reviewed information before meeting with the community residents who were attending a program on healthful living. Which best describes the action by the nurse?
a. Disease prevention
b. Health promotion
c. Health improvement
d. Specific protection
b. Health promotion
A 50-year-old woman comes to the clinic for her first mammogram. Which best describes the action of this client?
a. Disease prevention
b. Health improvement
c. Health protection
d. Primary health promotion
c. Health protection
Which is the best definition of health?
a. A goal and a resource for living
b. A lack of disease or illness
c. Complete state of well-being
d. Freedom from pain or discomfort
c. Complete state of well-being
A nurse was becoming frustrated. She had given her client extensive information on his health problem, but the client continued to be noncompliant in making needed changes. Which principle had the nurse forgotten?
a. A person may have a higher priority than improving his or her health.
b. Information, while necessary, will not motivate people to change.
c. People need repetition over time to be able to absorb information.
d. Physicians, not nurses, are perceived as experts in health.
b. Information, while necessary, will not motivate people to change.
The nurse working with a client to change behavior to maximize health asked the client to bring his family to the next visit. Which best describes why the nurse wants the family to come with the client?
a. To analyze the family’s beliefs about health
b. To determine the family’s support of the client
c. To establish the family’s communication patterns
d. To evaluate the family’s approval of the proposed changes
c. To establish the family’s communication patterns
A nurse is using the theory of reasoned action when working with a client to exercise on a regular basis. Which would be the easiest way for the nurse to determine if the client will engage in this activity?
a. The client’s intention to exercise regularly
b. The client’s perception of the threat of illness if he doesn’t exercise regularly
c. Society’s emphasis on the importance of regular exercise
d. The pros and cons of regular exercise
a. The client’s intention to exercise regularly
A nurse is using the theory of planned behavior when working with a client to change her behavior and improve her health. Which consideration should be made by the nurse?
a. If environmental limitations may prevent the person from acting
b. The availability of needed environmental supports for the client
c. The client’s belief about factors that may facilitate or impede the behavior
d. If the suggested behavior is actually the most effective approach
c. The client’s belief about factors that may facilitate or impede the behavior
Some people believe that the air within their workplace makes them ill. Which premises support this belief?
a. They consistently feel worse on workdays and weeks without holidays.
b. There has been media coverage of “sick buildings” where there is very little air
exchange with fresh air outside.
c. Research has demonstrated that some buildings emit poisonous vapors that make
anyone who works there ill.
d. When a small group of persons begins to believe something, the others in thelarger group begin to believe it as well.
a. They consistently feel worse on workdays and weeks without holidays.
It is rumored that there is something in the workplace that is causing persons employed there to feel ill. Which action would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?
a. Ask researchers to set up a study to confirm the health hazard in the environment.
b. Assess the risk, including identifying any toxic substance.
c. Confirm the extent to which the illness resulted from intergroup agreement on the illness and cause.
d. Insist that the media not further spread stories of possible sick buildings until the truth of the situation can be studied
b. Assess the risk, including identifying any toxic substance.
Which risk factors are least subject to modification?
a. Choice of lifestyle behaviors
b. Environmental exposure
c. Nutritional options
d. Recreational activities
b. Environmental exposure
Which best describes why risk reduction is of such importance in the United States today?
a. Families suffer when family members die from avoidable causes.
b. Risk reduction activities will decrease insurance costs to individuals and their
employers.
c. The leading causes of death are all related to lifestyle choices.
d. Risk reduction can decrease the ongoing rise in national health care expenditures.
c. The leading causes of death are all related to lifestyle choices.
Which is the cause of most preventable deaths in the United States?
a. Alcohol
b. Drug addictions
c. Sexually transmitted diseases
d. Tobacco
d. Tobacco
A nurse is completing a health history with a client. Which question would be most important to include?
a. How many alcoholic drinks do you have in a day?
b. How many sexual partners have you had in the past month?
c. What nonprescription drugs do you take on a routine basis?
d. What kinds of tobacco do you use daily?
d. What kinds of tobacco do you use daily?
During a health history, the client looked confused and said, “But everybody drinks, like at parties and such. How much drinking do you think is too much?” Which would be most appropriate response by the nurse?
a. “Alcohol should be used only in moderation.”
b. “It’s okay as long as you don’t binge, and you eat food with your drinks.”
c. “Per day, no more than one drink for women and two drinks for men.”
d. “Total abstinence is the only healthy choice.”
c. “Per day, no more than one drink for women and two drinks for men.”
Which best describes the reason why so many Americans are obese?
a. Culture requires eating at celebrations and holidays.
b. For many people, caloric intake is more than needed for their physical activity.
c. Physical education is no longer a required subject in most elementary and
secondary schools.
d. The expected portion size in restaurants has vastly increased over time.
b. For many people, caloric intake is more than needed for their physical activity.
