A public health nurse has conducted a community assessment and plans to implement a skin cancer screening protocol at the health dept. This is an example of which intervention level?

A public health nurse has identified obesity as a problem in the school district. The next step is to make information available about the health of the students. This is an example of which core function?

Public health nurse specialists are interested in which of the following:

The most important contribution made by Florence Nightingale to community-oriented nursing was:

A shift in the leading causes of mortality occurred between 1900 and 1955 from pneumonia, TB and diarrhea/enteritis to heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease. Which is not a nursing strategy to reduce communicable disease mortality?

The history of nursing allowed the profession to advance, with a targeted competency of safety as a goal. Safety minimizes risk for harm to client and providers. According to the textbook (pg 40), important aspects of safety include all BUT which of the following:

Primary health care (PHC) differs from primary care in which way:

As the commissioner of the county health department, the nurse will most likely be responsible for:

The US public health system agency that assumes the overall responsibility for regulating health care and overseeing the health status of Americans is the:

A local public health nurse led health center provides preventive care, community screenings, local health assessments, health education, and disease specific interventions to medically uninsured individuals regardless of ability to pay. This is best described as:

Determinants of population health include: physical environment, education, employment, coping skills, healthy child development, health services, sex and culture

Population health emphasizes health at a population level and focuses on reducing inequities, improving health, reducing mortality and morbidity and assessing emerging disease and other health risk to the community.

Managing symptoms of HIV, providing psychosocial support and teaching patients about care and future symptom management strategies is an example of which type of prevention

Teaching clients how to avoid and/or change risky behaviors that may lead to HIV exposure is an example of which type of prevention?

Persistent diarrhea is disproportionately associated with increased risk of death due to:

A public health nurse must be prepared to handle multiple types of health emergencies and crisis. Which types of public health situation(s) would a nurse be expected to prepare for:

The impact of the baby boomer generation on the future of health care can best be described as:

If an employer wants to allow health care decision making to be the responsibility of the individual receiving the care, the employer may select to offer a type of plan that is pre-taxed, typically established by an insurance company or bank and may be applied to health care costs and services. This type of a plan is known as:

Medicaid Programs provide financial assistance to states and counties to pay for medical services for poor older adults, the blind, the disabled and families with dependent children.

The nurse practice act of each set is responsible for:

Professional negligence and the scope of practice are two legal aspects of nursing one must be familiar with.