A new public health nurse carefully assessed all the local mortality and morbidity data in preparation for making appropriate planning suggestions at a meeting next week. What other action is crucial before the nurse can feel prepared?

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Understanding the community’s culture and values through direct interaction is essential for effective planning, beyond just data or internal assessments.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Historically, public health nurses prioritized collective political activity and community collaboration to address social determinants like poverty, rather than individual care.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Although Nightingale would probably agree with each of the listed suggestions, she emphasized that health teaching is one of the most fundamental nursing principles.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Health education is designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health. Health education is unable to prevent disease from occurring, and it is not the most cost-effective way to improve health.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Community health education with the community as client is based on practical, useful, and scientifically sound methods and widely accessible technology. An effective program relates economic, political, and epidemiological factors to internal behavioral and communication factors. Thus the program activities are viewed within a sociopolitical structure especially within the local environmental settings.