Community Public Health Nursing Flashcards
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Which action BEST exemplifies a community health nurse functioning in the coalition builder role?
Answer: Convening local stakeholders to develop a shared asthma action plan
Coalition building involves bringing together diverse community partners to collectively address a health issue.
A nurse is evaluating the cultural appropriateness of a health education brochure. Which element is MOST important to assess?
Answer: Whether images and language reflect the target community's values and norms
Culturally appropriate materials must reflect the target group's cultural values, language, images, and health beliefs to be effective.
An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurs at a community picnic. The epidemiological tool MOST useful for identifying the food source is:
Answer: Cohort study with attack rates by food item
A retrospective cohort study calculating food-specific attack rates among picnic attendees is the standard method for foodborne outbreak investigation.
Which document provides the national framework for disease prevention and health promotion for the decade 2021–2030?
Answer: Healthy People 2030
Healthy People 2030 sets science-based national objectives to improve health and well-being over the decade 2021–2030.
A community nurse is addressing opioid overdose deaths. Distributing naloxone to at-risk individuals and their families BEST represents which harm reduction principle?
Answer: Reducing the immediate risk of death without requiring sobriety
Harm reduction meets people where they are, prioritizing survival and reducing the severity of consequences without requiring abstinence.
A nurse is collecting data to determine the health needs of a rural underserved population. Which data source provides community-level self-reported health behavior data by state?
Answer: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
The BRFSS is a state-based telephone survey that collects self-reported data on health behaviors, chronic conditions, and preventive service use.
According to the nurse's role in emergency preparedness, which function does the COHN perform during the mitigation phase of the disaster cycle?
Answer: Identifying workplace structural hazards to prevent future disasters
Mitigation involves identifying and correcting hazards before a disaster occurs to reduce its likelihood or impact.