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1
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Surveillance

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Monitoring health events through collection of data

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Outreach

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Activities intended to locate populations at risk and provide information/services

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Screening

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Identifying those w/ risk factors or asymptomatic disease

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Policy enforcement

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Compels others to comply with laws, rules

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Social marketing

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Commercial marketing designed to influence populations

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Advocacy

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Pleading cause or acting with focus on developing a community, system individually or family’s ability to act on their own behalf.

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Service learning

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Structured learning experience incorporating community service in response to community identified concerns

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Aggregate

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People residing in an area or a group/set of persons under study

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Population

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People who share a common characteristic

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Pedagogy

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Belief that learning is achieved better with a teacher

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Androgogy

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Belief that self teaching is better

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A nurse performs activities to meet the primary goals of public health. Which of the following is the nurse most likely to complete?

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Conducting infant car seat check

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A nurse nurse working in the community with an aggregate/population. Which best exemplifies an aggregate/population.

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Students in county school system

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14
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A nurse is identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease. What is this?

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Screening

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A nurse is implementing a community assessment with plans to do a population interventions. Which of the following underlying principles should the nurse use to facilitate active participation?

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People will participate when they see issues as worthy of their time

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16
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A PHN is conducting a community assessment. Which of the following is best example of this action

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Compiling recent data from the county health department on tuberculosis cases

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The community/public health nurse working in the role of educator of groups of clients does which of the following

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Uses learning principles to increase understanding about health/fitness

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18
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The pub health nurse recognizes that removing barriers will improve health care utilization patterns. Which demonstrates removal of barrier to health care?:

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Providing services for rural population by using mobile clinic

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Which of the following are social determinants of health(double check this one)

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Safe housing
Access to health care
Job training
Exposure to crime and violence

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Which of the following is not a health disparity

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Immunizations

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A PHN is developing a measurable outcome health status indicator that can be used at the individual level of practice. Which would they use? (they got this wrong so im pretty sure this is the correct answer)

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50 year old woman receives annual mammograms

NOT schools answer

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A PHN is conducting an assessment of the community health. Which is being accomplished through this activity?

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Assess a social network of interacting individuals usually in a defined territory.

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23
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A PHN is utilizing health teaching at systems level to influence population health. Which of the following interventions is being implemented?

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Advocating for increased taxes on tobacco products

24
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A PHN utilizes the nursing process at all levels of practice. Which demonstrates this?

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Analyzing needs of the community, systems, individuals, and families

25
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A community health nurse collects data about the number and proportion of persons age 25 or older with a HS education. Which best describes this data?

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Sociodemographic characteristics

26
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A nurse interviews key informants and observes behaviors int he community. What type of data is being collected?

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Qualitative

27
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A nurse is planning a pop health program focused on not texting and driving. Which factor is most important to consider before implementing?

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The community’s readiness to participate in this program (I think?)

28
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A nurse is teaching a class of 10y/o about hand washing. They know the following must be met before psychomotor learning will occur?

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Must have the necessary ability, sensory image of how to wash hands, and opportunity to practice.

29
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A nurse is using population focus when providing public health nursing care. Which following statement best describes the care being given?

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Attention is given to the pop or community as a whole, regardless of whether they do or do not access the healthcare system.

30
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A nurse is working in the community w/ an aggregate population. Who is the nurse most likely to interact with>?

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Students in county school system

31
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A nurse who is involved in identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease is using which intervention

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Screening

32
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A population is best defined as

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Collection of individuals sharing at least one common characteristic

33
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The public health/comm nurse is aware that health promotion programs ar primarily designed to accomplish which goal?

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Expand the potential for health and personal development.

34
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What is the purpose of objectives for a program?

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Provide direction to create, implement, and evaluate program

35
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Which is an example of a population health nurse conducting a community assessment?

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Conducting a windshield survey

36
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Which of the following factors most influences a client’s ability to learn from a health education program

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The client’s belief that the information will be useful or enjoyable

37
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Which of the following represents a qualitative assessment activity which a pop health nurse might use when working to develop a program to improve children’s health needs?

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Attend a community meeting with to discuss community member’s concerns for childrens’ health.

38
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Which of the following statements about pub health is accurate?

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Historically, gains in the health of populations have been related largely to changes in safety, sanitation, and personal behavior.

39
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A public health nurse is working with first responders and teaching a class about recognizing influenza in patients. The nurse begins class by reviewing basic physiology of the lung.

Which principle of effective education is this?

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Stimulating recall of prior learning

40
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Health education is often used as a strategy when working w/ vulnerable pop. The benefits of health ed. can be greatly affected by the individual’s or group’s:

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Health literacy

41
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Examples of public health laws instituted to protect the health of anchorage residents include `

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Community wide smoke-free business

Monitoring and licensing community water systems

Mandating immunizations of children entering school

42
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What is the priority for a nurse working with a community and/or population?

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Collective good of the population

43
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A nurse promotes alliances among organizations for a common purpose. Which of the following pub. health interventions is being implemented?

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Coalition building

44
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As an advocate, the nurse must understand the role and carefully organize advocacy efforts in order to be effective.

Before approaching legislators or key individuals the most important consideration is:

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Understand the issue and know the facts

45
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Because socioeconomic values are important facts that predispose people to vulnerability, assessment should include evaluation of the individual’s or family’s

  • Exposure to airborne toxins
  • Adequacy of income
  • Perceived stress
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Adequacy of income?

46
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An example of a vulnerable group experiencing multiple risk factors is:

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Persons depend on illicit substances who also test positive for HIV

47
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T/F: In service learning, studnts place their roles as health professionals in a larger societal context

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True

48
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T/F:Service learning is an opportunity to provide an emphasis on community concerns and determinants of health while partnering between communities and health profession schools using reciprocal learning and reflective practice model

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True

49
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A community health nurse who is working with persons with TB should recognize that:

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Homelessness and inadequate community resources contribute to problems among this population

50
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How can nurses provide social justice?

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Advocating for policies to improve social conditions

51
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A public health nurse is employed by the state’s dept. of health policy. They’re currently working with a team to collect data to determine whether a policy implemented earlier had achieved the desired outcome.

The focus of the nurse’s current work is similar to which phase of the nursing process?

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Evaluation

52
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A community/pub health nurse frequently visits homeless shelters to address the concerns of this vulnerable population. Considering environment in shelters, which of the following would be an appropriate secondary prevention measure to implement?

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TB screening

53
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A nurse working in the role of educator with groups of clients may:

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Use learning principles to increase understanding about mental illness

54
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The wide variations in health services and health status between certain population groups are referred to as:

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Health disparities

55
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When a local health dept. provides a HTN screening to all individuals, which general category of healthcare functions is being used?

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Direct services

56
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Assurance

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Role of public health that ensures essential services are available

57
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Policy development

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Activities intended to inform persons about health issues, mobilize community partnerships and develop plans to support health efforts.

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