Evolve Community Health Quiz #1/#2

What does a community-based nurse do as a change agent? Select all that apply. The nurse empowers clients and their families to creatively solve problems. The nurse works with clients to solve problems and helps clients identify an alternative care facility. The nurse helps clients gain the skills and knowledge needed to provide self-care. The nurse empowers clients to become instrumental in creating change within a health care agency. The nurse does not make decisions but rather helps clients reach decisions that are best for them

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The nurse manager appointed a registered nurse (RN) to provide hospice care for a client and explained the tasks to be performed. Which tasks has the nurse manager delegated to the RN? Select all that apply. Providing total client care Performing all the hygiene tasks Teaching the client and family members Teaching the client about personal hygiene Assisting the client in performing daily activities

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How does a nurse play the role of a "change agent" in a community-based nursing practice? By helping clients identify and clarify health problems By establishing relationships with community service organizations By establishing an appropriate plan of care, based on assessment of clients By identifying and implementing new and more effective approaches to problems

By identifying and implementing new and more effective approaches to problems

What purpose does a community health center serve in preventive and primary care services? Community health centers are outpatient clinics that provide primary care to a specific population. Community health centers aim to increase worker productivity, decrease absenteeism, and reduce the use of costly medical care. Community health centers emphasize program management, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community health principles. Community health centers include a complete program designed for health promotion and accident or illness prevention in the workplace.

Community health centers are outpatient clinics that provide primary care to a specific population

Which role does a nurse play when helping clients to identify and clarify health problems and to choose appropriate courses of action to solve those problems? Educator Counselor Change agent Case manager

Counselor

What role is the nurse expected to have in a community-based nursing practice if there is a sudden spread of malaria? Educator Collaborator Epidemiologist Client advocate

Epidemiologist

A nursing student is recalling information about hospice care. What is hospice care? Hospice care is a resident's temporary or permanent home, where the surroundings have been made as homelike as possible. Hospice care offers an attractive long-term care setting with an environment akin to the client's home, which offers the client greater autonomy. Hospice care is a service that provides short-term relief for people providing home care to an ill, disabled, or frail older adult. Hospice care is a system of family-centered care that allows clients to remain at home in comfort while easing the pains of terminal illness.

Hospice care is a system of family-centered care that allows clients to remain at home in comfort while easing the pains of terminal illness.

A client who has become a mother for the first time appears anxious about her new parenting role. The nurse recommends that she join a support group for new mothers at the local YWCA. Which type of prevention is this? Tertiary Primary Secondary Therapeutic

Primary

The nurse at a community healthcare center focuses on providing primary preventive care. What is the focus of primary preventive care? Rehabilitating the client Treating early stages of disease Preventing complications from illness Promoting health in healthy individuals

Promoting health in healthy individuals

A client with bone cancer is receiving hospice care at home. The hospice program also provides respite care. What is the purpose of respite care? Assisting the client with meals and personal care Providing short-term relief to the family caregiver Providing skilled nursing interventions for the client Providing counseling and treatment for behavioral problems

Providing short-term relief to the family caregiver

How is public health nursing different from community health nursing? Public health nursing focuses on population. Public health nursing focuses on health promotion. Public health nursing is part of a primary healthcare delivery system. Public health nursing requires nurses to hold a graduate degree

Public Health nursing focuses on population

A client on hospice care is receiving palliative treatment. A palliative approach involves planning measures aimed to do what? Restore the client's health. Promote the client's recovery. Relieve the client's discomfort. Support the client's significant others

Relieve the client's discomfort

A hospice nurse visits the home of a female client in the terminal stage of cancer 3 days each week to provide physical care and emotional support. The nurse observes that the client's adolescent children are having difficulty talking with their mother. The nurse suggests a family meeting, knowing what? It is important to solve family problems before death occurs. They will be unable to deal with their feelings until after their mother dies. A deeper level of knowledge will help the children understand what their mother is going through. The opening of communication increases the ability of family members to work through their reactions to the terminal illness

The opening of communication increases the ability of family members to work through their reactions to the terminal illness

A client with colon cancer is receiving hospice care at home. What is the focus of hospice care? To ease the pain from illness To provide curative treatment To assist with activities of daily living To adapt to the limitations due to illness

To east the pain from illness

What is the main focus of community health nursing? To meet the acute care needs of a population To improve the quality of health in a population To influence political processes affecting public policies To assess the healthcare needs of an individual or family

To improve the quality of health in a population

The nurse is having difficulty understanding a client's decision to have hospice care rather than an extensive surgical procedure. Which ethical principle does the client's behavior illustrate? Justice Veracity Autonomy Beneficence

autonomy

A nurse in a hospice program cares for clients and family members who are coping with imminent loss. What is the most important factor in predicting a person's potential reaction to grief? Family interactions Social support system Emotional relationships Earlier experiences with grief

earlier experiences with grief

A hospice nurse is caring for a dying client and his wife. What factor will be a major determinant in the mourning outcome for the wife? Duration of the relationship shared by the couple Age of the wife at the time of the husband's death Health of the surviving spouse at the time of the death Importance of the deceased person as a source of support

importance of the deceased person as a source of support

A hospice nurse is caring for a dying client while several family members are in the room. When the client dies, the initial nursing intervention during the shock phase of a grief reaction is focused on what? Staying with the individuals involved Directing the individuals' activities at this time Mobilizing the support systems of the individuals Presenting the full reality of the loss to the individuals

staying with the individuals involved