Chapter 8 Practice Test

A nurse is employed by a local health department. Which of the following would be one of her primary responsibilities?

A parish nurse is concerned about the number of parishioners who smoke. How would the parish nurse best address this issue?

Partnering with school-based clinics and local pediatric dentists so that children can have access to preventive dental care is an example of a(n):

Which of the following health concerns should the nurse have as a priority when planning care for a community?

A nurse who is new to the area wants to get a feel for the community she will be working with. Which of the following would be the best way for the nurse to start learning about the community?

A community believes many people in that community lead sedentary lives because they lack safe areas in which to exercise. What action should the nurse take in order to confirm or reject these beliefs?

A nurse is interviewing members of a substance abuse unit at a local Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. Which of the following parts of a community is the nurse assessing?

The study of a population is referred to as (a):

The process of dynamic change with adaptation in the systems parts, and how community systems and subsystems interact is known as:

A nurse is assessing a community from both a developmental and risk perspective. Which of the following characteristics would be of most interest to the nurse?

Using developmental theory, a community nurse assesses the community and determines that the majority of residents who are 45 years of age or older lead sedentary lives. Which of the following would be the priority for this nurse to promote?

Which of the following demonstrates the nurse using subjective data to indicate a health concern in the health-perception health-management pattern?

After assessing the community, the nurse concludes that the community is having difficulty meeting its nutritional-metabolic pattern. Which of the following findings would the nurse most likely have discovered during the assessment?

A nurse is assessing a communitys exposure to pollutants by examining contaminated soil, air, water, and food. Which functional health pattern is being assessed by the nurse?

Which functional health pattern provides information about problem-solving and decision making within communities?

Within a community there is an elevated high-school dropout rate and its high school students are experiencing a decreased sense of self-worth. Based on this data, the community is at highest risk to experience an alteration in which of the following functional health patterns?

A nurse is working with a community that is experiencing an alteration in its values-beliefs pattern. Which of the following is most likely to result because of a disturbance in this functional health pattern?

A nurse is using the technique of mapping while implementing the nursing process in the community setting. The nurse is engaging in which aspect of the nursing process?

A nurse is collecting data regarding the number of crosswalks within a community. Which perspective is being used to gather this data?

A community nurse has collected rates of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents involving teenagers. Which action should the nurse take next?

In response to the growing elderly population, community health nurses should do which of the following? (select all that apply)

Which of the following is a stage of change? (select all that apply)