ATI RN COMMUNITY HEALTH PROCTORED EXAM

ATI RN COMMUNITY HEALTH PROCTORED EXAM

VERSION 9

National Prevention Strategy targets intervention in multiple setting to move the health of the populations from

• Poor to rich
• Wellness to health
• Shift from sickness to prevention
• Sadness to happiness

Rational: Called for under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Developed by National Prevention Council

Four Strategic Directions:

• Building healthy and safe community environments
• Expanding quality preventive services in both clinical and community settings
• Empowering people to make healthy choices
• Eliminating health disparities

To understand the causes of health and disease, epidemiology studies:

• Individuals
• Families
• Groups
• Populations

a nurse is teaching a client diagnosed with gonorrhea how to prevent reinfection and further spread. Which of the following describes the action taken by the nurse?Primary prevention Secondary promotion 1 / 2

Tertiary prevention Secondary prevention Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and prompt treatment of disease, injury, or disability.Primary prevention refers to those interventions aimed at focuses on chronic care and rehabilitation, Primary health care refers to the first line of care provided to patients typically by a physician or other health care provider.PHNs utilize registries to identify children with delayed or missing immunizations. They subsequently follow up with families by phone calls or home visits. Which of the following levels of practice is being implemented?Policy Systems Individual Community A nurse who is involved in identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease is using which intervention?

• Screening
• Referral and follow-up
• Surveillance
• Health teaching

The factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease are

described using:

• descriptive epidemiology.
• analytic epidemiology.
• distribution.
• determinants.

Determinants are the factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease, which may be individual, relational, social, communal, or environmental. Descriptive epidemiology seeks to describe the occurrence of a disease in terms of person, place, and time. Analytic epidemiology focuses on the investigation of causes and associations. Distribution describes who has the disease and where and when the disease occurs.A client is receiving PHC services. Which of the following expectations would the client have?

• The care would be provided by a physician.
• Private insurance would be necessary to receive care.
• The emphasis of care provided would be on prevention.
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