Community & Public Health Nursing Promoting the Publics Health 9th Edition by Cherie Rector - Test Bank
1.
After teaching a group
of nursing students about the similarities and differences between public health and community
health, which of the following statements by a nursing
student would indicate knowledge
of the similarities and differences between public health and community
health?
A)
“Community health nursing is defined as nursing care that is provided
in a community setting, rather than an institutional setting.”
B)
“Public health nursing
is defined as nursing care that is provided in an institutional setting.”
C)
“Public health nursing
is focused on the health of individuals.”
D)
“Community health nursing can shape the quality of community
health services and improve
the health of the general public.”
Ans: D
Feedback:
Operating within an environment of rapid change and increasingly complex challenges, this nursing specialty holds the potential to shape the quality of community health services and improve
the health of the general
public.
2.
Which of the following statements would best describe the difference between public health
nursing and community
health nursing?
A)
Public health nursing is focused on the private aspects of health, and community health nursing is focused on the public aspects
of health.
B)
In our textbook, the term community
health practice refers
to a focus on specific, designated communities and is a part of the larger public
health effort.
C)
Public health nursing and community
health nursing relate to the very same types of services and perspectives.
D)
Both public health
nursing and community health nursing
are practiced
exclusively within institutions.
Ans: B
Feedback:
In this textbook,
community health practice
refers to a focus on specific, designated communities. It is a part of the larger public health
effort and recognizes the fundamental concepts and principles of public health as its birthright and foundation for practice.
Public health nursing
is focused on the public aspects
of health. Public
health nursing and community health nursing have distinctive types of services and perspectives. Neither public health nursing
nor community health nursing is practiced exclusively within institutions.
3.
Which of the following
is most accurate about the concept
of community?
A)
A community is a collection of people who share some important features of their lives.
B)
Community members live in the same geographic location.
C)
Community members are biologically related.
D)
A community is made up of people
who do not necessarily interact with one another and do not necessarily share a sense of belonging
to that group.
Ans: A
Feedback:
The broad definition of a community is a collection of people who share some important features
of their lives. Community members may not live in the same geographic location as in a common-interest community or a community of solution.
A population is made up of people who do not necessarily interact with one another
and do not necessarily share a sense of belonging to that group.
4.
A group of students are reviewing
material for a test on populations, communities, and aggregates. Which of the following
indicates that the students understand these concepts?
A)
Members of a population share a sense of belonging.
B)
Communities and populations are types of aggregates.
C)
Individuals of a community are loosely
connected.
D)
Members of an aggregate share a strong bond. Ans:
B
Feedback:
An aggregate refers to a mass of grouping
of distinct individuals who are considered as a whole and who are loosely
associated with one another. Communities and populations are types of aggregates. A population is made up of people who do not necessarily interact with one another
and do not necessarily share a sense of belonging
to the group. A community is a collection of people who chose to interact with one another because of common interests, characteristics, or goals, which form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging.
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