Public Health Exam #1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) . In 1988, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report on the future of public health and its mission that defined
public health as:
- what public-private partnerships do to treat vulnerable
- what the government does to ensure that vital programs
- what the U.S. Public Health Service does to prevent
- what society does collectively to ensure the conditions in
populations.
are in place.
disease, promote health, and deliver services.
which people can be healthy. - Correct Answers ✅d A registered nurse is seeking a position as a public health nurse. In reviewing the job description, the nurse would expect to find a description of a position that focused on
functions such as:
- monitoring pregnant teenagers for symptoms of
- offering free hypertension screening and treatment referral
- partnering with local seasonal farm workers to design a
complications of pregnancy.
at local health fairs to low-income, uninsured, community members.
program aimed at preventing illness and injury, and advocating for this population with local political and community leaders. 1 / 4
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- preventing injury among a population of elderly residents
in an assisted living facility and treating residents' chronic illnesses. - Correct Answers ✅c A public health nurse leader is encountering barriers when trying to shift the public health agency's efforts to a population-focused practice. The reasons peers are not supportive of the proposed shift to a population focus are
most likely related to:
- agency colleagues' push for nurses to focus on population
- costs associated with staff training and revision of
- lack of support from the agency's funding sources.
- opinions that nursing should focus on the provision of
initiatives.
documents.
direct client care and services. - Correct Answers ✅d The role and goals of the community health nursing practice
can best be described as:
- community-based interventions aimed at promoting,
- education of nurses and other staff working in community-
- population-level strategies aimed at promoting, preserving,
preserving, and maintaining the health of populations residing in institutional facilities such as nursing homes.
based and community-oriented settings to improve the overall effectiveness of their programs to meet client needs.
and maintaining the health of populations through the 2 / 4
Public Health Exam #1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) delivery of personal health care services to individuals, families, and groups in an effort to improve the health of the community as a whole.
- activities targeted at improving the health status of clients
served by community-based health service agencies such as hospice and home health agencies. - Correct Answers ✅c A community-oriented nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the middle school. The next step in a population- focused practice is to make information available about the health of the middle school students. This describes the core
public health function of:
- assessment.
- assurance.
- policy development.
- research. - Correct Answers ✅a
The state public health agency has received multiple complaints regarding the availability of elder transportation services to a specific county senior center. The state agency assigns a public health nurse to work with the community to evaluate its program for elder transportation services to publicly sponsored eldercare programs. The public health
core function applied is:
- assurance.
- policy development.
- primary prevention. 3 / 4
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- public transportation. - Correct Answers ✅a
A nurse planning a smoking cessation clinic for adolescents in
the local middle schools and high schools is providing:
- community-oriented care.
- community-based care.
- secondary care.
- tertiary care. - Correct Answers ✅a
A community-oriented nurse conducts home visits to new parents to assess the health status of the infant, the parent- child relationship, the parents' knowledge regarding the care of the infant, and the need for health department and social services referrals to support the needs of the new parents
and the infant. This can best be described as an example of:
- clinical community health practice.
- community-based practice.
- population-focused practice.
- public health nursing. - Correct Answers ✅a
Nurses should consider opportunities for population-focused practice that result from the rapid transformation of health care delivery from a medical model to a health promotion/disease prevention model. An example of such
opportunity is:
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