Week 3 Community Health

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Multiple Choice

A nurse is planning measures to reduce the incidence of obesity. Which of the following interventions affects the environment, according to the epidemiological triangle?

• Determine whether clients have a family history of obesity

• Measure clients’ BMI

• Provide low-fat meal options at public schools

• Ask affects adults to keep a diary of food intake

Multiple Select

A nurse is preparing an education program on disease transmission for employees at a local day care facility. When discussing the epidemiological triangle, the nurse should include which of the following factors as agents?

• Resource availability

• Ethnicity

• Toxins

• Bacteria

• Altered immunity

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A nurse is reviewing data on the rates of varicella zoster (chicken pox) for a county. If there were 416 cases of varicella in one year among a population of 32,000 people, what should the nurse record as the incidence rate per 1,000 people?

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Which activity would the community health nurse be involved with at the primary level of prevention?

• Screening

• Partner notification

• Immunization

• Isolation

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A nurse is preparing an educational program on cultural perspectives in nursing. The nurse should include that which of the following factors are influenced by an individual’s culture? (select all that apply).

• Nutritional practices

• Family structure

• Health care interactions

• Biological variations

• Views about illness

Multiple Choice

Which would characterize a culture?

• Inherited

• Static

• Individualized

• Tacit

Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a client who is from a different culture than the nurse. When beginning the cultural assessment, which of the following actions should the nurse take first?

• Determine the client's perception of their current health status

• Gather data about the client’s cultural beliefs

• Determine how the client’s culture can affect the effectiveness of nursing actions

• Gather information about previous client interactions with the healthcare system