Community Public Health Nursing Flashcards
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A nurse is applying the Precede-Proceed model to plan a diabetes prevention program. Which phase involves identifying predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors?
Answer: Educational and ecological assessment
The educational and ecological assessment phase (Phase 3) of Precede-Proceed identifies predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors that influence behavior.
Which criterion distinguishes a 'sentinel event' in public health surveillance?
Answer: A case whose occurrence signals a possible failure of prevention or control
A sentinel event is one that, by its occurrence, signals that something went wrong in the prevention system and warrants investigation.
A community health nurse advocates for fluoridation of the municipal water supply. This is an example of which public health role?
Answer: Policy advocate
Advocating for evidence-based policy changes such as water fluoridation reflects the policy advocate role in community/public health nursing.
Which outbreak investigation step occurs IMMEDIATELY after establishing the case definition?
Answer: Finding and counting cases
After defining a case, the next step is to systematically search for and count all cases meeting that definition.
The healthy immigrant effect refers to the observation that:
Answer: Newly arrived immigrants are often healthier than native-born peers but health deteriorates over time
Newly arrived immigrants tend to be healthier than US-born counterparts due to self-selection, but this advantage diminishes with longer US residence.
A school nurse notices increased absenteeism among students from one neighborhood after heavy rain. The nurse's BEST action reflecting environmental health practice is to:
Answer: Investigate potential environmental causes such as flooding or mold exposure
Linking absenteeism patterns to environmental events like flooding requires investigation into physical hazards such as mold or contaminated water.
Primary care differs from public health nursing primarily because public health nursing focuses on:
Answer: Improving health across entire populations
Public health nursing's defining characteristic is its population focus — it aims to improve the health of communities rather than individual patients.