Test Bank For Community-Based Nursing An Introduction 3rd Edition By Melanie McEwen
Chapter 1: Opportunities in Community-Based Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- Over the past two decades, the health care delivery system has changed dramatically. Among the changes are:
| 1. | Care is becoming more focused on acute health care rather than health promotion and illness prevention. |
| 2. | Hospital-based health care delivery has received increasing emphasis. |
| 3. | There has been a change in emphasis from treating illness to maintaining health. |
| 4. | There has been a move from focusing on aggregates or populations to focusing on the individual. |
ANS: 3 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page Reference: 4
OBJ: 1 TOP: Introduction
- Factors that have served to produce the current nursing shortage in the United States include all of the following except:
| 1. | Heavy workloads and inadequate staffing. |
| 2. | Increasing age of the general population and growing need for long-term management of chronic diseases. |
| 3. | Perceived lack of opportunity for job placement and advancement. |
| 4. | Relatively low wages. |
ANS: 4 DIF: Comprehension REF: Page Reference: 5 (Box 1-1) OBJ: 2 TOP: Trends in Nursing Employment
- Currently, approximately what percentage of nurses in the United States do not work in acute care (hospital) settings?
| 1. | 11% |
| 2. | 22% |
| 3. | 33% |
| 4. | 44% |
ANS: 4 DIF: Knowledge REF: Page Reference: 7
OBJ: 2 TOP: Trends in Nursing Employment
- The two broad goals of Healthy People 2010 focus on:
| 1. | Achieving access to preventive care for all Americans and increasing life expectancy. |
| 2. | Eliminating health disparities and increasing quality years of healthy life. |
| 3. | Promoting public health core functions (assessment, assurance, and health policy) and decreasing mortality. |
| 4. | Reducing mortality in infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders and improving health surveillance. |
ANS: 2 DIF: Comprehension REF: Page Reference: 9
OBJ: 3 TOP: Healthy People 2010
- All of the following are “focus areas” described in Healthy People 2010 except:
| 1. | Access to quality health services. |
| 2. | Cancer. |
| 3. | Oral health. |
| 4. | Senior health. |
| 5. | Tobacco use. |
ANS: 4 DIF: Knowledge
REF: Page Reference: 10 (Healthy People 2010 box) OBJ: 3
TOP: Healthy People 2010
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