HESI: NUR206 / NUR 206 (Latest
2024 / 2025 Update) Community Nursing Concepts Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Fortis
Question:
A nurse is planning a nutrition class for a group of senior citizens at a community center and wants to emphasize the amount and types of fat in some foods versus others. What is the best teaching method for the nurse to use?
- Display posters with foods and tell seniors about fat content
- Determine foods most often eaten by this group and discuss the nutritional
- Show a movie about cooking with foods that are low in fat but delicious
- Ask each senior to bring a food for others to taste, then estimate the fat
panel of each product
contained in these foods
Answer:
- Determine foods most often eaten by this group and discuss the nutritional
panel of each product
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Question:
An adult male who has diabetes is laid off from his job of 15 years where he had health care benefits. By law, he is provided with Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) benefits. What is likely to be his greatest concern in planning for his health care during the next year?
- Paying for his health care
- Obtaining quality medical care
- Selecting a primary care provider
- Having required lab work completed
Answer:
- Paying for his health care
Question:
A prescription for discharge is written for an elderly female client who has asked to be discharged to her home. The client lives alone and is able to walk 10 to 15 feet with assistance. What action should the nurse implement first?
- Review the home medication schedule with the client and family
- Arrange for a bedside commode to be delivered to the home
- Meet with the case manager to plan a home safety evaluation
- Provide the client with information about medical alert devices
Answer:
- Meet with the case manager to plan a home safety evaluation
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Question:
The nurse at a migrant health center notes an increased incidence of dermatitis in seasonal farm workers at a local fruit farm. In response to this finding, it is most important for the nurse to obtain which information as a part of a community assessment?
- Availability of fresh water for washing hands after work
- Air pollution levels in the surrounding community
- Number of hours of worker's exposure to direct sunlight
- Percentage of poisonous plants in the work fields
Answer:
- Availability of fresh water for washing hands after work
Question:
A teenage boy with a history of recurring atopic dermatitis (eczema) tells the school nurse that he wants to play high school football. Which action should the nurse take?
- Encourage the teenager to join the swim team instead of the football team
- Notify the parents of problems associated with perspiration for those with
- Tell the teenager to shower with a non-perfumed soaps immediately after
- Inform the football coach of the teenager's skin condition and its
eczema
practice
manifestations.
Answer:
- Tell the teenager to shower with a non-perfumed soaps immediately after
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Question:
The wife of an older adult man who has had diabetes mellitus for the past 10 years reports to the home health nurse that her husband fell yesterday while taking his daily walk in the neighborhood. He has a bruised hand and a small abrasion on his left knee. The nurse assess that his neurologic vital signs are stable. To reduce risk for future falls, which assessment is most important for the nurse to obtain?
- Current blood sugar level
- Degree of paresthesia in feet
- Wound healing of knee abrasion
- A1c glycosylated hemoglobin
Answer:
- Degree of paresthesia in feet
Question:
The home health nurse visits a young male client with AIDS who has Kaposi's sarcoma and peripheral neuropathies. His parents, who are the care-takers, tell the nurse that their son sleeps most of the times. The nurse assess that the client is semi-conscious with stable vital signs, cries out in pain when turned or moved, has a Duragesic pain patch in place, and skin lesions that are closed and dried. Which intervention should the nurse implement?
- Remove the Duragesic patch as directed by prescription
- Give a complete bed bath to further assess the client
- Discuss end-of-life decisions with the client's parents
- Call for ambulance transportation to the hospital immediately
Answer:
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