Test Bank - Stamler and Yius Community Health Nursing:

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Test Bank - Stamler and Yiu's Community Health Nursing:

A Canadian Perspective, 6th Edition (Dosani, 2025), Chapter 1-33 | All Chapters Covered/ Newest Version 2024

Chapter 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada.

Multiple Choice Questions

• Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
• To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of

health and prevention of

• To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their

health needs

• To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will

increase their level of health

• To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing

particularly on mothers and children - Correct Answer - (B) To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health needs.To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing particularly on mothers and children.

• CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
• The service is provided in the natural environment of people
• The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and

problems

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• Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified - Correct

Answer - (B) The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and problems.Community-based practice means providing care to people in their own natural

environments: the home, school and workplace, for example.

• Population- focused nursing practice requires which of the following processes?
• Community organizing
• Nursing, process
• Community diagnosis
• Epidemiologic process - Correct Answer - (C)

Community diagnosis Population-focused nursing care means providing care based on the greater need of the majority of the population. The greater need is identified through community diagnosis.

• RA 1054 is also known as the Occupational Health Act. Aside from the number of

employees, what other factor must be considered in determining the occupational health privileges to which the workers will be entitled?

A. Type of occupation,: agriculture, commercial, industrial

• Location of the workplace in relation to health facilities
• Classification of the business enterprise based on net profit
• Sex and age composition of employees - Correct Answer - B. Location of the

workplace in relation to health facilities Based on R.A. 1054, an occupational nurse must be employed when there are 30 to 100 employees and the workplace is more than 1 km. away from the nearest health center.

• A business firm must employ an occupational health nurse when it has at least how

many employees.

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C. 201

• 301 - Correct Answer - B. 101

• When the occupational health nurse employs ergonomic principles, she is performing

which of her roles?

• Health care provider
• Health educator
• Health care coordinator
• Environment manager - Correct Answer - D. Environment manager

Ergonomics is improving efficiency of workers by improving the worker's environment through appropriately designed furniture, for example.

• A garment factory does not have an occupational nurse. Who shall provide the

occupational health needs of the factory workers?

• Occupational health nurse at the Provincial Health Office
• Physician employed by the factory
• Public Health nurse of the RHU of their municipality
• Rural Sanitary inspector of the RHU in their municipality - Correct Answer - C. Public

Health nurse of the RHU of their municipality

• a school nurse is discussing levels of prevention with a teacher. which of the following

activities should the nurse identify as a primary prevention strategy?

• provide nutritional counseling for students who have diabetes
• conduct vision and hearing screening for kindergarten enrollment
• demonstrate proper hand washing techniques
• report suspected child neglect to the proper authorities - Correct Answer - c.

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• a school nurse is conducting hearing screening procedures in an elementary school.

which of the following instructions should the nurse provide when preforming the Rinne test?

• after i place the tuning fork on your scalp, tell me if you hear the sound better in one

ear or the same in both ears

• you'll wear headphones and press the button when you hear a sound
• after i place this tuning fork behind your ear, tell me when you no longer hear the

sound

• use your finger to close one ear while i whisper some numbers into your other ear -

Correct Answer - c. after i place this tuning fork behind your ear, tell me when you no longer hear the sound

• a palliative care nurse is teaching a client who has cancer about the services that

are available for the client. which of the following statements should the nurse identify as an indication that the client understands the teaching?

• I can begin palliative care when i have less than 6 months to live
• this type of care can help me with pain control
• my family will not be involved with this type of care program
• if I begin palliative care, i will have to stop my chemotherapy - Correct Answer - b. this

type of care can help me with pain control

• a nurse is assessing a new client. which of the following information should the

nurse include in the cultural portion of the assessment?

• employment status
• history of illness
• sexual orientation
• food preferences - Correct Answer - d. food preferences
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