ATI RN
Community Health Assessment Questions Questions
Question 1 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 2 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 3 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.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health care system. Why is this involvement important?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about the current health care system and all the problems that result from people not seeking care until they are desperately ill. Nurses, as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, whose work is central to our current health care delivery system, can also be instrumental in working politically to create a health care delivery system that will meet health needs.
Question 5 of 5
What is the primary problem seen in Healthy People 2020's emphasis on choosing healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as daily exercise or healthy food choices?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Although all responses are accurate, the primary problem is the emphasis on personal choices in the Healthy People 2020 objectives. Emphasis on personal choices ignores the need for community responsibility and action that addresses environmental or cultural restraints to health.