Community-Based Nursing: An Introduction, 3rd Edition Test Bank
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McEwen: Community-Based Nursing, 3rd Edition
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Chapter 1: Opportunities in Community-Based Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. 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
2. 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
3. Currently, approximately what percentage of nurses in the United States do not work in acute
Test Bank
Chapter 1: Opportunities in Community-Based Nursing Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. 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
2. 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
3. Currently, approximately what percentage of nurses in the United States do not work in acute
4. 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
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
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