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The document defines public health as the science and art of preventing disease, promoting health through organized community efforts, and applying scientific knowledge to reduce health inequalities and ensure the best health outcomes. It also defines public health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease. Community health nursing aims to enhance individuals' and communities' capacity to address their health needs and maximize wellness.

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The document defines public health as the science and art of preventing disease, promoting health through organized community efforts, and applying scientific knowledge to reduce health inequalities and ensure the best health outcomes. It also defines public health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease. Community health nursing aims to enhance individuals' and communities' capacity to address their health needs and maximize wellness.

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The World Health Organization defines public health as:

Science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through
organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment.
The art of applying science in the context of politics so as to reduce inequalities in health while
ensuring the best health for the greater number.
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity.
A service rendered by a professional nurse with communities, groups, families, individuals at
home, in health centers, clinics, schools, places of work for promotion of health, prevention of
illness, and care of the sick at home and rehabilitation.

Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?


Group of answer choices
To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health needs
and maximize their potential for high level wellness
To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of health and
prevention of illness.
To recognizes the impact of different factors on health and has a greater awareness of his/ her
client’s lives and situations
To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children

The utilization of the nursing process in the different levels of clientele- individuals, families,
population group and communities, concerned with the promotion of the health, prevention of
disease and disability and rehabilitation is defined by;
Group of answer choices
Maglaya
Shetland
Nisces
Freeman

The public health nurse is the supervisor of rural health midwives. Which of the following is a
supervisory function of the public health nurse?
Group of answer choices
Providing technical guidance to the midwife
Referring cases or patients to the midwife
Proving nursing care to cases referred by the midwife
Formulating and implementing training programs for midwives

he health of individuals and communities are affected by a combination of factors. Based on the
World Health organization’s list of heath determinants, which of the following incorrectly affects
the health of an individual?
Group of answer choices
Intelligence
Higher salary
Traditions
Low educational level

As a Public Health Nurse, what is your primary function or responsibility?


Group of answer choices
Health Teaching
Reporting of cases
Health promotion
Community Diagnosis

Community health is a part of paramedical and medical intervention/ approach which is


concerned on the health of the whole population. Its aim is to;
Group of answer choices
Health promotion, disease prevention and management of factors affecting health
Science of public health, public health nursing skills and social assistance function
Individual, family and community
School health nursing, occupational health nursing- workplace and public health nursing- home

A public health nurse has different roles in the community, one of her roles is to identifies needs,
priorities, and problems of individuals, families, and communities, this term refer to?
Group of answer choices
Planner/ Programmer
Provider of Nursing care
Trainer/ Health Educator
Community organizer

Nursing, together with public health, is one of the helping professions in the health care system
which operates at three level of clientele, these are;
Group of answer choices
Individuals, families and communities
Biological and social science, ecology, clinical nursing
Medical Officer, Public Health Nurse, Rural Health Midwife
Community diagnosis, vital statistics, priority setting

Which of the following is the most prominent feature of Public Health Nursing?
Group of answer choices
Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative services.
It involves in providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital
Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area
The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing public health nursing service

Maria’s daughter who is working as a nurse in the community hospital was diagnosed with
Covid. The neighbours are asking and are anxious about the situation. Maria has to determine
what information will be released from the family. Maria is fulfilling the role of:
Group of answer choices
A. Health Manager
B. Provider
C. Gatekeeper
D. Problem solver

In what stage of family development the family is to allocate its resources well.
Group of answer choices
A. Newly Weds
B. Childbearing family
C. Family with preschooler
D. Family with Teen-agers

Duvall’s model of Family development is applicable to all family structures.


Group of answer choices
A. Yes
B. No
C. Maybe
D. Sometimes
The family is the most frequent focus of health decisions and action because the needs of each
member has to be considered.
Group of answer choices
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C. Sometimes true, sometimes false
D. No need to ask
Nurse Stef plans to disseminate information on safety precautions for Covid19 in their barangay
where there is no internet signal. She needs to make sure that everybody will be informed so she
made pamphlets on Covid19 to be distribute to each family. This is because.
Group of answer choices
A. The family is developing
B. The family can do something to perform their developmental tasks
C. The family is an effective and available channel for health workers
D. The family can correct its own health problems

Nurse Stef reviews the records of patients who are enrolled in the DOTS program for patients
who has TB. She needs to ensure that each patient follows strictly the therapeutic regimen.
Which of the following role Nurse Stef is fulfilling.
Group of answer choices
A. Counselor
B. Facilitator
C. Coordinator
D. Health Monitor

Nurse Stef in the rural health unit received a report that a patient suffered from Stroke/CVA at
home and is unconscious. She is being asked for help by the family. Their barangay is 2-hour-
drive from the nearest hospital. She immediately informed the Municipal Doctor who is in a
seminar and headed to the patient’s home. Upon arriving she immediately rendered first aid.
Nurse Stef is performing which role?
Group of answer choices
A. Counselor
B. Provider of Care
C. Coordinator
D. Health Monitor

Nurse Stef called the ambulance driver to pick up the patient for possible transport to the city.
She also called the hospital admission staff that they will be bringing a patient for possible
admission and reported the details over the phone. Nurse Stef is performing which role.
Group of answer choices
A. Counselor
B. Provider of Care
C. Coordinator
D. Health Monitor

Nena sees to it that their house is clean and orderly where she can see her children playing
without fear of getting sick or getting injured. This is because it is the task of the family is to:
Group of answer choices
Recognize if there are interruptions in health
Making decisions about seeking health care/ to take action
Utilize community resources for health care
Maintaining a home environment conducive to health maintenance

 "Hindi na, wag na lang kung jan din lang, Baka lumala pa sakit ko. Doon nalang ako sa bayan,
Mr. Ricardo Cruz said when asked if he would like to go to the health center despite being told
that there are free medicines and services available in the health center which is just 3 blocks
away from their home. The family is unable to to the following health task.
Group of answer choices
Recognizing interruptions of health development
Making decisions about seeking health care/ to take action
Providing care to all members of the family
Utilize community resources for health care

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