Public Health Nursing Exam 2 - Questions, Answers and Rationales

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Public Health Nursing Exam 2 - Questions, Answers and Rationales An intervention by the United States federal government to protect the health of its citizens was the establishment of the Marine Hos... pital Service, presently known as the Public Health Service. Its purpose was to: 1. Set policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants 2. Establish hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home 3. Establish and promote environmental interventions such as adequate housing and sanitation for urban cities 4. Provide health care for merchant seamen to protect seacoast ports and cities from epidemics Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve public health. Its purpose was to secure its maritime trade and seacoast cities. Nurses who provided care to people in their homes and provided that care to several people at a time were called: 1. Private duty nurses 2. Visiting nurses 3. Public health nurses 4. Community staff nurses Correct by definition Neighborhood centers that provided health care and social welfare programs were called: 1. Settlement houses 2. Nursing care centers 3. Nurse-managed clinics 4. Public health services Correct by definition. Nursing centers, nurse-managed clinics, and public health services are not necessarily in neighborhoods. An accomplishment for which the Frontier Nursing Service was noted is: 1. Improvement of the care of sick and injured soldiers 2. Establishment of a fee-for-service program for workers at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 3. Reduction of infant and maternal mortality regardless of environmental conditions 4. Increasing funding for communicable disease treatment The Frontier Nursing Service nurses were trained in nursing public health and midwifery and provided care to rural and inaccessible areas, which led to reduced mortality. A major provision of the Social Security Act of 1935 was the establishment of: 1. The Frontier Nursing Service to provide nursing service to rural communities 2. State and local community health services and training of personnel 3. District nursing to provide home health care to sick people 4. Community-based settlement houses Title VI of the Social Security Act established state and local community health services and training of personnel. Which of the following trends in health issues in the United States between 1900 and 1955 is accurate? 1. There was a rise in chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer. 2. There was a rise in communicable disease. 3. The crude mortality rate increased dramatically. 4. The life span after diagnosis remained the same. Leading causes of death in 1955 were heart disease and cancer, while in 1900 they were pneumonia and tuberculosis. All other answers are false. A 66-year-old woman is retired and no longer has health insurance through her place of employment. Which of the following programs would be appropriate for her health insurance needs? 1. Medicare 2. Medicaid 3. Social Security 4. Economic Opportunity Act The Social Security Act was amended to include health insurance benefits for the elderly, which is addressed through Medicare. Which of the following programs provided funds for neighborhood health centers, Head Start, and other community action programs? 1. Medicare 2. Medicaid 3. Social Security 4. Economic Opportunity Act Funding for neighborhood health centers, Head Start, and other community action programs began in 1964 with the Economic Opportunity Act. The impact of World War I on public health nursing included which of the following? Select all that apply: 1. Many communicable diseases were eradicated. 2. The depletion of the ranks of public health nurses to the war. 3. The feeling that the greatest patriotic duty was to stay at home. 4. Inadequate funding was the major obstacle to extending nursing services in the community. Both World Wars I and II depleted the public health nurse population as nurses went off to war. The feeling of patriotism extended to the idea that patriotic duty could also be served on the home front. Which statement about Florence Nightingale's ideas about ethics is correct? a. Nursing is a call to service, and the moral character of persons entering nursing is important. b. Ethical principles are based on the values of the individual nurse. c. Society will dictate the ethical principles to which nurses must adhere. d. Ethics are very important in times of war, such as in the Crimean War, when she set up public health centers. Florence Nightingale saw nursing as a call to service and viewed the moral character of persons entering nursing as important. When nurses apply the knowledge and processes of ethics to the examination of ethical problems in health care, they are using: a. Values b. Morality c. Ethics d. Bioethics Bioethics applies the knowledge and processes of ethics to the examination of ethical problems in health care. A nurse in the 1960s would have referred to which code of ethics to guide ethical decision making? a. Nightingale Pledge b. Code for Professional Nurses c. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements d. International Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Ethics for Nurses [Show More]

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