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Community Health Assessment Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is using the Framework for Developing Health Communications to create a health program in the community. Which is the first step the nurse would take?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Understanding the intended audience's learning needs and targeting the program or message to the audience is key to activating effective health education. After understanding the audience's needs, it will be important to determine the factors related to health problems, assess health resources available, and establish goals and objectives.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is helping clients to change their behavior. Which would be most effective?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange is the five As approach to counseling as seen, for example, in smoking cessation programs. The other responses are not as comprehensive as the five A approach to counseling.
Question 3 of 5
Which variables are missing from both the Health Belief Model (HBM) and Health Promotion Model (HPM)? (Select ONE that does not apply.)
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The models are very useful in relation to changing individual behaviors, but they do not address the complex relationships among social, structural, and physical factors in the environment, such as lack of social support systems or inaccessible health services. Changes are needed to improve care for socially and politically disenfranchised groups. Knowledge is always within a social context and is always bound to power relationships. A nurse cannot assign power and control to an individual. The individual must take on power, although perhaps with the nurse's guidance.
Question 4 of 5
Which provides the most accurate way to explain community health nursing?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Not only is community a context or place where a community health nurse gives care, but the community as a whole is the focus of the nurse's efforts. Being employed outside a medical center, providing care within the community, and working for a public health department all describe settings where a community health nurse may be employed, but do not demonstrate the emphasis on providing population-focused care.
Question 5 of 5
Which best describes how people typically respond when asked of what community are they a member?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Although individuals might well respond in terms of any of the possible responses, the most common response is in terms of geographic location of one's home or place of residence. Traditionally, a community is an entity delineated by geopolitical boundaries; this view best exemplifies the dimension of location.