Chapter 03: Community-Based Nursing Practice

Create a vibrant image depicting community nursing, featuring diverse healthcare professionals engaging with families in a community setting, showcasing health education and outreach programs.

Community-Based Nursing Practice Quiz

Test your knowledge of community-based nursing practice with this comprehensive quiz featuring 20 questions. Designed for nursing professionals and students, this quiz covers essential concepts in public health and community health nursing.

Prepare to enhance your understanding of:

Roles of community health nurses
Vulnerable populations
Health promotion strategies
Community assessments

20 Questions5 MinutesCreated by CaringHeart204

1. A nurse is working as a public health nurse. What will be the nurse’s primary focus?

A. The individual as one member of a group

B. Individuals and families

C. Needs of a population

D. Health promotion

2. A nurse wants to become a specialist in public health nursing. Which educational requirement will the nurse have to obtain?

A. A baccalaureate degree in nursing

B. Preparation at the basic entry level

C. The same level of education as the community health nurse

D. A graduate level education with a focus in public health science

3. A nurse is working as a community health nurse. Which action is a priority for this nurse?

A. Provide direct care to subpopulations.

B. Focus on the needs of the ill individual.

C. Provide first level of contact to health care systems

D. Focus on providing care in various community settings.

4. A nurse is focusing on acute and chronic care of individuals and families within a community while enhancing patient autonomy. Which type of nursing care is the nurse providing?

A. Public health

B. Community health

C. Community-based

D. Community assessment

5. The community health nurse is administering flu shots to children at a local playground. What is the rationale for this nurse’s action?

A. To prevent individual illness

B. To prevent community outbreak of illness

C. To prevent outbreak of illness in the family

D. To prevent needs of the local population groups

6. A nurse attended a seminar on community-based health care. Which information indicates the nurse has a good understanding of community-based health care?

A. It occurs in hospitals.

B. Its focus is on ill individuals.

C. Its priority is health promotion

D. It provides services primarily to the poor.

7. A nurse is using the Healthy People 2020 to establish goals for the community. Which goal is priority?

A. Reduce health care costs.

B. Increase life expectancy.

C. Provide services close to where patients live.

D. Isolate patients to prevent the spread of disease.

8. A nurse is working in community-based nursing. Which competency is priority for this nurse?

A. Caregiver

B. Collaborator

C. Change agent

D. Case manager

9. A nurse observes an outbreak of lice in a certain school district. The nurse collects data and identifies a common practice of sharing lockers, caps, and hair brushes. The nurse shares the information with the school. Which community-based nursing competency did the nurse use?

A. Educator

B. Caregiver

C. Case manager

D. Epidemiologist

10. A nurse is providing screening at a health fair. Which finding indicates the person may be a vulnerable patient who is most likely to develop health problems?

A. One who is pregnant.

B. One who has excessive risks

C. One who has unlimited access to health care.

D. One who uses nontraditional healing practices

11. The instructor is teaching student nurses about identifying members of vulnerable populations when the nursing student asks, “Why is it that not all poor people are considered members of vulnerable populations?” How should the nurse respond?

A. “All poor people are members of a vulnerable population.”

B. “Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they take drugs.”

C. “Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they are homeless.”

D. “Members of vulnerable groups frequently have a combination of risk factors.”

12. The nurse is making a home visit to a Korean mother after the birth of girl. The spouse is pressing different parts of the patient’s hand and lower arm to relieve a headache. What is the nurse’s next action?

A. Tell the spouse to stop and give the mother acetaminophen.

B. Let the spouse finish and then give the mother medication.

C. Ask the mother and/or spouse to explain the procedure.

D. Explain to the spouse that it will not work.

13. A nurse is assessing the social system of a community. Which area should the nurse assess?

A. Housing

B. Economic status

C. Volunteer programs

D. Predominant ethnic groups

14. The nurse is working with a 16-year-old pregnant female who tells the nurse that she needs an abortion. The nurse, acting as a counselor, provides the patient with information on alternatives to abortion, but after several sessions, the patient still insists on having the abortion. What should the nurse, in the counselor role, do next?

A. Encourage the patient to speak with a “Right-to-Life” advocate.

B. Refuse to provide a referral to an abortion service.

C. Provide referral to an abortion service.

D. Delay referral to an abortion service.

15. Before a patient with beginning stage of Alzheimer’s disease is discharged, the community-based nurse is making a visit to the patient’s home. The patient’s daughter and family live in the home with the patient. What is the major focus of this visit?

A. Teach the family how to monitor blood pressure.

B. Demonstrate techniques for providing care.

C. Stress to the family how difficult it will be to provide care at home

D. Encourage the family to send the patient to an extended care facility.

16. While conducting a community assessment, the nurse seeks data on the average household income and the number of residents on public assistance. In doing so, the nurse is evaluating which component of a community assessment?

A. Structure

B. Population

C. Social system

D. Welfare system

17. The nurse uses statistics on increased incidence of communicable disease to influence legislatures to pass a bill for mandatory vaccinations to enroll in school. Which type of nursing will the nurse use in this process?

A. Public health nursing

B. Community-based nursing

C. Community health nursing

D. Vulnerable population nursing

1. A community-based nursing is working with a family. For which key areas will the nurse need a strong knowledge base? (Select all that apply.)

2. Offering which community-based nursing activities indicates the nurse is working in the role of educator? (Select all that apply.)

A. Prenatal classes

B. A child safety program

C. To defend patients’ decisions

D. Creative solutions to local problems

E. To coordinate resources after discharge

3. A nurse is caring for vulnerable populations in a local community. Which patients will the nurse care for in this community? (Select all that apply.)

A. A 47-year-old immigrant who speaks only Spanish

B. A 35-year-old living in own home

C. A 22-year-old pregnant woman

D. A 40-year-old schizophrenic

E. A 15-year-old rape victim

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