ATI RN
Community Health Assessment Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is helping a community develop its capacity to address future problems. Which activity is the nurse most likely implementing?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Although such activities are educational, collaborative, and ideally do address problems in some order by priority, building a community's capacity to address future problems is called developing community competence.
Question 2 of 5
All of the needed objective data on a specific health problem are available for the community health nurse. Which best describes why the nurse would also interview community residents about the health problem?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The nurse must understand the community's perspective on health status, the services used or required, and their concerns. Official data do not capture this type of information. Data collected directly from an aggregate may be more insightful and accurate.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse was debating about which approach to use to both obtain data about community needs and encourage community participation in their resolution. Which approach would be most effective in meeting both goals?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: All of the responses would be helpful in obtaining information about the community. However, only focus groups promote group interaction and encourage further participation in planning solutions to identified problems.
Question 4 of 5
A community health nurse found a very small number of families in the community who were desperately in need of basic preventive health services. Which ethical approach supports expending agency resources on these few, but needy, families?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Each response is an accurate portrayal of a branch of ethics. Beneficence and social justice would give moral advantage to the most vulnerable. By caring for these families, the demands of utilitarianism (the most good for the largest number) would also be met as caring for the weakest supports the whole community.
Question 5 of 5
Which are considered the most important determinants of a healthy community?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The public is more concerned with quality-of-life issues, with the most important determinants of a healthy community being low crime rates and a child-friendly neighborhood environment. Although employment opportunities are important, many are low-paying, no-benefit service positions that are inadequate to support family life. Although the food may be expensive, most cities have safe food and water supplies. Choices of worship and housing variety, while valuable, are not consistently identified as top determinants.