ATI RN
Community Assessment Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
After completing a master's degree, a nurse took a course in marketing. Should the agency reimburse the nurse's tuition costs?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Social marketing can enhance public health efforts by influencing population behaviors, making the course relevant and beneficial to the agency.
Question 2 of 5
Which best describes one of the most fundamental nursing principles suggested by Nightingale?
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.
Question 3 of 5
Which best describes why community health education programs are important?
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.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse is planning a health education program in the community. Which consideration must be made by the nurse?
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.
Question 5 of 5
Which needs to be considered when using the Health Belief Model (HBM)?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The HBM is a value expectancy theory that addresses factors that promote health-enhancing behavior. The HBM considers perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and other sociopsychological and structural variables. Self-efficacy, defined as the notion that an individual can act successfully on a given behavior to produce the desired outcome, was later added to the HBM.