NURSING PRACTICE I

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This test drill contains 100 test questions.
2. Read INSTRUCTIONS TO EXAMINEE printed on your answer sheet.
3. Shade only one (1) box for each question on your answer sheet. Use a No.2 pencil only. Two or more boxes shaded will invalidate
your answer.
4. AVOID ERASURES.

NAME: _____________________________________________________________________ SCORE: _________________

Situation 1. Public Health Nurses integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal, clinical
understanding of the health and illness experience of individuals and families within the population.

1. To facilitate community involvement and empowerment, it is the utmost importance that the community health nurse to:

A. Act as a Facilitator
B. Forge partnership with the people
C. Participate in community gatherings
D. Organize community programs.

2. By principle community work maximizes community participation involvement. To make this possible, which of the
following is primarily utilized for community participation and involvement. To make this possible which of the following is
primarily utilized for community services?

A. Local government assistance C . Funds from the government programs

B. Intersectoral Donations D. Available resources in the community

3. A community public health nurse is best defined as a nurse who:

A. Applies concepts and knowledge from nursing and public health.

B. Gives care to families in the community
C. Has a baccalaureate and previous experience in the community health.
D. Is employed outside an institution such as hospital or care facility.

4. When caring for a family or community, the most important variable for care to be acceptable to the recipients

A, Knowledge about the disease outbreak in the community

B. Physically and mentally fit for the job
C. Nursing approaches are culturally congruent
D.Good Moral Conduct
5. The community health nurse promotes equity in providing health services that promote and preserve
the health of the populations. Which of the following actions of the nurse illustrate this concept?

A. Providing competent nursing care to individuals and families in the catchment population
B. Focusing on the control of the leading causes of illness and death in the community.
C. Offering health education on the health promotion and preservation and disease prevention
D. Supporting and implementing health policies that uphold social justice.

Situation 2. As a Public health Nurse, it is important to know the definition and concepts of Public Health Nursing.

6. According to the World Health Organization Public Health Nursing is best defined as:

A. Achievement of optimum wellness

B. A mixture of public health and public health nursing with some phases of social assistance
C. Renders service that is equitable and accessible to the community
D. Complete state of physical, psychological, and socio cultural well being and not merely the absence of the disease.

7. According to C.E Winslow which of the following is the goal of public health?

A. For people to attain their birthrights and longevity

B. For promotion of health and prevention of illness
C. For people to attain self reliance
D.For people to access to basic health services

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Situation 3. There are several factors in the ecosystem which affects the optimum level of functioning (OLOF) of individuals, families
and communities. The nurse must be knowledgeable on this.

11. Modern concept of health refers to:

A. How the individuals maintain a maximum level of wellness

B. How individuals can be called disease free
C. How individual avoid diseases
 D. How individuals can avail their immune system

12. In the Health Care Delivery System, ideally rehabilitation begin:

A. Upon admission of the client in the health care system

B. Upon discharge of the client from the health care system
C. After the client’s physical condition stabilizes.
D. Soon after the client had requested for rehabilitation services.

13. The Factor in the ecosystem affecting the individual’s health, that is involved in the menace of pollution, basically man made is:

A. Socio-economic influences C. Behavioral

B. Health Care Delivery System D. Environmental

14. The factor in the ecosystem affecting the individuals health that is involved in the provision of essential health services whether
community-based, accessible, sustainable and affordable is the:

C. Socio-economic influences C. Behavioral

D. Health Care Delivery System D. Environmental

15. Which is not an example of behavioral influences in OLOF on health status?

A. Cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking

B. Exposure to toxic substances in the workplace
C. Sedentary lifestyle of an office worker
D. A grandmother with an adult-onset diabetes

Situation 4. Nurse Glenda is a newly registered nurse who is on duty at the Rural Health Unit.

16. During standard health clinic visit, the first activity performed by Nurse Glenda is:

A.Preparing and retrieving individual health records

B.Establishing rapport like greeting the client
C.Eliciting client’s chief complaint
D.Telling the client on the nature of his or her illness and giving health teachings

17. Upon interview, Nurse Glenda will write the chief complaint of Mang Pedro who reported to have cough for 2 weeks in the:

A.Individual treatment record

B.Target client list
C.Output tables
D.Reporting forms

18. On a Wednesday morning, Nurse Glenda is scheduled to give immunization to infants in her catchment area. She took a vaccine
stored in a freezer. Which vaccine is this?

A.DPT
B.Oral polio vaccine
C.Hepatitis B vaccine
D.Tetanus toxoid

19. Nurse Glenda checked the thermo badge to ensure that vaccines are stored in proper temperature. She ensures that vaccine
storage temperature at the freezer is between:

A.20C to 8 0C
B.00C to 8 0C
C.-150C to -250C
D.-50C to -150C

20. Proper storage of vaccine at the right temperature follows which of the following principle:

A.Target setting
B.Risk approach
C.Supplemental Immunization Activities
D.Cold chain and logistics

21. Nurse Glenda’s co worker who is a midwife will be filed for malpractice if she performs which of the following:

A. Monitoring fetal heart rate

B. Giving IM injection to the mother
C. Inserting IV to the mother
D. Suturing the perineal area of the mother

22. Nurse Glenda is correct when she administered Measles Vaccine on which of the following site:

A. SubQ C. IM
B. ID D.Oral

23. BCG vaccine is usually given at birth. Who invented the this vaccine?
 A. John Snow C. Sanofi Pasteur
B. Robert Koch D. Burt Carl Garlin

24. What law mandates the compulsory vaccination for children below 8 years old.

A. PD 996
B. RA 9173
C. PD 961
D. RA 9600

25 . Black fever/john snow

Situation 5. Alternative medicines include the use of herbal medicines, and the practice of acupressure, acupuncture and
aromatherapy.

26. Which of the following laws paved way for the creation of the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care?

A. R.A. 7610 C. R.A. 7160

B. R.A. 8423 D. P.D. 965

27. The herbal plant used as an anti-helmintic, which expels round worms that cause ascariasis, is:

A. Tsaang gubat C. Lagundi

B. Niyug-niyogan D. Bayabas

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