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PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.
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Pre-board Examination for Community Health Nursing for SPLBE 2018
Understanding of the Concepts and Principles of Community Health Nursing will enable the nurse to provide care effectively and
efficiently
1. The primary goal of Community Health Nursing is:

a. to enhance the capability of families, groups and communities to cope with their health and illness problems.
b. to increase the productivity of the people
c. to contribute to national development
d. to support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of health and prevention of
illness.
2. Community Health Nursing is premised on the belief that:

a. the community health nurse can solve health problems of the community
b. the community is the recipient of the experience of the CHN
c. health problems are multi-causal thus intervention is multidisciplinary in nature
d. health activities should be viewed independently from other development activities of the government
3. Community Health Nursing is concerned with:

a. the promotion of health and prevention of illness
b. the health needs of the people within a therapeutic institution
c. third level of prevention
d. ecologic studies
4. Community health which is the art and science of promoting health and efficiency, prolonging life and preventing
disease through organized community efforts is directed towards:
a. assisting every citizen to be free from disease
b. assisting every citizen to realize his birth right of health and longevity
c. assisting every citizen to get social services
d. assisting every citizen to have medicine at low cost
5. Community health Nursing a field of nursing practice is directed towards:

a. the individual patient
b. the entire community
c. care of the families
d. health education in the community
6. The concept of community health nursing is a population based service means that it is:
a. provided to priority families in the community
b. provided in the health center only
c. provided in the home only
d. provided in the areas where the people of the community reside and work
7. the philosophy of Community Health Nursing is based on the concept of:

a. Ability to relate
b. unified whole
c. rights of man
d. worth and dignity of man
8. Community Health Nurse given an orientation may learn that community health nursing is all, except:
a. utilizes philosophy, objectives, contents and practice of CHN
b. synthesis of nursing and community health services
c. with responsibility to serve the total population
d. getting census of population in the community
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9. A basic purpose to further community health is attained thru:

a. developing and enhancing capabilities of families
b. providing care of the sick in the home
c. campaigning for construction of sanitary toilets
d. surveying population of the community
10. Which of the following best describe community health nursing?

a. utilizes home visits as primary interventions
b. demands nurse’s participation in all community programs
c. consider community needs in planning nursing programs
d. mostly concerned with care of the sick
11. The ultimate goal of community health is:

a. self-reliance of the community
b. improved health of the citizenry
c. prevention and control of diseases
d. active and supportive community life
12. Community Health Nursing services are based on the:

a. community health care plan prepared by the municipal health office
b. health needs and problems of individuals, families and community
c. program, projects and needs of the municip0al government
d. program and projects of the new administration of the health department
13. Which of the following statements is not correct?

a. Every individual has a unique optimum level of functioning
b. the responsibility of the nurse should be made clear to the other health-related workers and members of the
health team
c. Health education is an integral part of nursing
d. Public health nursing is not involved with values and changes in the society it serves
14. Which of the following indicates the effectiveness of public health services?
a. health educated community
b. health informed community
c. community utilization of health facilities
d. community dependence on health personnel for health services
15. Which of the following indicates ineffective preventive health services?

a. high maternal death rates
b. high death rates from cancer
c. high morbidity rates]
d. high mortality rates from communicable diseases
16. The following are general principles when working with the community, except one:
a. know the community where you are serving
b. work with the community
c. talk about specific benefits of health services offered
d. make specific predictions about how many cases or death will be prevented by utilizing any type of service
17. In the community oriented nursing practice, the approach is:

a. follow up of students through the hospital OPD (out Patient Department)
b. patient or family participation in the care
c. primary care of individual
d. health team approach with community participation and follow-up of vulnerable groups
18. The concept that CHN is carried out through a multidisciplinary approach implies that CHN is:

a. a general approach
b. a community-based
c. an ecologically-based
d. a comprehensive and integrated health care
19. The community health nurse participate in the following activities, except:
a. defining the health and health related needs and problems
b. organizing and mobilizing resources in the community
c. evaluating the results of health activities
d. none of the above
20. Community healthy nursing program planning is similar to any planning activity, the purpose of which is to:
a. decides who is to carry out the plan
b. decides what is to be done
c. clarifies differences among available alternatives
d. clarifies administrative functions
21. In planning of any nursing activity, the community health nurse must develop objectives. The purpose of formulating
objectives is:
a. to know the background of the problem
b. to assess the needs of the program
c. to provide direction and come out with strategies
d. to evaluate the program
22. Which of the following is a nursing assessment?

a. participates in the formulation of health plan
b. oversees the nursing output in the different program
c. monitors the status of nursing output
d. determines nursing needs and requirements
23. Which of the following functions refers to evaluation?

a. assess periodically strategies and activities as to their effectiveness and appropriateness
b. provides or arrange for nursing care
c. maintains surveillance for occurrence of diseases and symptoms of notifiable diseases
d. determine training needs of personnel
24. To evaluate a community health program effectively, the program directors must have previously established:
a. objectives
b. long term goals
c. program personnel
d. client/patient population
25. The public Health Nurse is required to record care/services provided to individuals and families. She should understand
the purpose of these records which is or the following?
a. contribute to the care of the patient
b. interpret the work to the public and other agencies
c. provide excellent source of information for appraising and interpreting nursing
d. all these purposes
26. Preparation for a career as a community health nurse emphasizes being a:

a. nurse practitioner
b. specialist
c. generalist
d. researcher
27. The goal of the National Health Plan is:

a. to promote health
b. partnership in PHC
c. health for all
d. health citizenry
28. The advent of the restructured health care delivery system has brought about:
a. more effective utilization of manpower
b. more emphasis on specialization
c. lesser case load for community health nurse
d. provision of restructured health care in areas
29. While the midwife provide care to individuals within her catchment areas, it is the nurse’s responsibility to review the
management by the midwife of selected number of patients. This review share focus on which of the following areas:
a. correctness of assessment of patient’s needs
b. appropriateness and adequacy of medications given
c. faithfulness to procedures/guidelines on proper treatment/management
d. all of these
30. Considered as the Key strategy in arresting the rapid increase in the number of deaths from health problems:
a. specialized hospitals
b. advancement in medical technology
c. public awareness and health education
d. all of the above
31. In the rural health unit, the midwife is administratively supervised by the:
a. supervising midwife
b. public health nurse
c. rural health physician
d. municipal mayor
SITUATION: The family is the fundamental unit of society. The CHN utilizes a holistic approach in assessing the family as a
social system, utilizing the nursing process to facilitate achievement of development task.
32. Nursing process generally can be interchangeable use with:

a. nursing practice or nursing care
b. primary health care
c. decision making and problem solving
d. research and evaluation
33. As a social system, the family is in a:

a. constant state of change
b. predictable state of change
c. state of periodic change
d. steady non-changing state
34. The family performs health tasks such as:

a. adoption of social
b. reproduction
c. transmission of culture
d. seeking health care
35. the family provides affection, security, identity, affiliation, socialization and control for individual members within the
family which is responsible for defining:
a. basic goals
b. basic functions
c. family goals

d. health care system
36. Specific kinds of behavior contributing to wellness are learned primarily within the:
a. family
b. community
c. school system
d. health care system
37. If the CHN is to identify total family needs it becomes necessary to:
a. focus on the family as a unit
b. focus on the family members
c. identifies deviant behavior of family members
d. identifies deviant roles of family members
38. When the nurse is scheduled to visit a family, it is important to review the family records thoroughly before visiting so
that she can;
a. analyze what is known so far the existing health needs of the family
b. plan the health program the health agency should take
c. implement strategies for health education
d. familiarize herself with the personal characteristics of each family member
39. When the nurse takes note of the family coping index as a basis for her nursing care plan she is involved in:
a. intervention
b. assessment
c. evaluation
d. diagnosis
40. In identifying mutual family goals the most appropriate strategy of the nurse would be to set:
a. small, achievable goals
b. large, achievable goals
c. goals that are easy to achieve
d. goals that are difficult to achieve
41. The CHN identified nursing needs of the family through:

a. nature of the problems presented
b. typology of nursing problems
c. coping index
d. any of the above
42. This area in family health nursing which helps determine the maturity and integrity of the family in meeting the usual stresses
and problems in life.
a. social competence
b. therapeutic competence
c. emotional competence
d. physical competence
43. Of these four coping areas in family health nursing, which one is concerned with the interpersonal relationship in making
decisions, giving support, showing respect and attention and managing the budget?
a. health attitude
b. use of community facilities
c. physical environment
d. family living
SITUATION: In working with high risk families, the CHN’s responsibilities are to strengthen the families response to crisis
situations and facilitate adoption to prevention orientation in promotion family health.

44. A health problem accompanied by an inability to resolve the problem is termed:

a. Health need
b. Crisis
c. Developmental failure
d. Anxiety reaction
45. Which of the following would the community mental health nurse identify as a situation crisis?
a. marriage
b. losing a job
c. birth of the first child
d. retirement
46. The initial process of sorting or triage in disaster should be done immediately to detect
a. consciousness
b. convulsions
c. threats to life
d. fracture
SITUATION: Participation in community needs assessment by the CHN means assessing health needs and patters of health
care/provision of nursing interventions and enhancing educational processes and providing diverse roles and responsibilities in
Community Health Nursing
47. The community can best be defined as:

a. a population categorized by demographic determinants
b. a geographic location with political and economic boundaries
c. an area of interaction with individuals, groups and institutions
d. a place where there is a collection of people and social system
48. Epidemiology is defined as:

a. the study of the distribution and determinants of health and diseases in the human population
b. the study of epidemic diseases
c. a study of cause and effect relationship
d. the study of random distribution of diseases in the community
49. Epidemiology as a descriptive science provides knowledge about disease. With these functions what does it seek to
analyze?
a. the agent
b. host
c. the environment
d. all of these factors
50. The functions of epidemiology is to:

a. analyze individual cases of diseases
b. observe population groups
c. study health in population groups and final cause for its variation
d. investigate environmental factors causing disease patterns
51.In health statistics, mortality records include:

a. individual records of live births and fetal deaths
b. individual records of the deaths indicating dates and causes with or without medical attendance
c. records of communicable diseases and important chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease
52. Which of the following cases will be counted under maternal deaths?
a. a pregnant woman who dies due to vehicular accident

b. a postpartum mother who died of uterine bleeding

c. a woman with uterine myoma
53. The number of new cases of specific diseases that occur during a defined
period of time in a population exposed during the time is known as the:
a. prevalence rate
b. incidence rate
c. morbidity rate
d. proportionate rate
54. The total number of existing cases of specific diseases at the particular time in a defined time period in a population is
called
a. prevalence rate
b. incidence rate
c. morbidity rate
d. proportionate rate
55. The Swaroop-uemura index is;

a. the proportion of deaths at age 50 year and over to all deaths
b. the way to measure the risk of dying of a given population
c. the traditional measurement in knowing the mortality index
56. To get the Crude Birth Rate, CHN may use this formula
a. total number of livebirth x 1000
midyear population
b. total number of registered birth x 1000
total deaths
c. total number of registered birth x 1000
population of women 15-44 years
d. total number of 0-1 year x 1000
population of women 15-44 years
57. In order to get a picture of the community, it is necessary that he/she conducts
a. home visit
b. mass information drive
c. mother’s class
d. community health survey
58. A community health survey is an analysis of:

a. the status of health education
b. health education program
c. data for introducing changes
d. the population and environment that influence the health of the community
59. Community assessment is best attained trough

a. home visit
b. clinic visits
c. conference
e. survey
60. Community diagnosis are based on interdependent reactions and changing conditions stated below except:
a. health capability
b. health actions to solve problems
c. supervision and coordination

d. demography and health status
61 The ways and directions in which the community is likely to work on its health problems
a. health status
b. health capability
c. health resources
d. health action potential
62. In making community diagnosis the nurse should consider one of these in determining the coping ability of the
community in solving health problems:
a. health status
b. health capability
c. health resources
d. health action
63. Components of population change are considered to be:

a. crude birth rate, crude death rate and fertility
b. marriage and fertility rates and childbearing women
c. fertility, morbidity and mortality
d. natality, births, mortality and migration
64. Primary health care is a practical approach to health development and improve quality and quantity of care to include
the following, except:
a. recognizes interrelationship between health and socio-economic developments
b. effective provision of community health based, sustainable at cost, government and community can afford
c. organize health task force with specialist to access patients for hospitalization
d. achieve acceptable level of health and well-being by active participation of the community
65. One of the aims of primary health care is:

a. promotion of self-reliance in the community
b. individual, and as a group
c. looking for alternative of care in the community
d. dependency on health resources
66. The elements of primary health care are the following except:
a. promotive, protective, curative and rehabilitative
b. accessible and available to all
c. availability of medical specialists
d. integrated health services
67. Support health mechanisms to sustain primary health care includes all, except:
a. improvement of the referral system
b. provision of maternal and child health care
c. formation and use of information system
d. improvement of the working conditions of health personnel
68. The Primary Health Care goal of Health for All means
a. people are managing their own health care
b. People can take care of their own health needs
c. Health centers and hospitals become support facilities
d. all of the above
69. One characteristic of PHC is that it is acceptable which means

a. it takes into account local customs and traditions
b. it is near the population it serves

c. it is affordable
d. it mainly uses western medicine
70. On the main implementation strategies, this approach links private and government agencies to have a wider base for
health care:
a. community organization
b. intra/intersectoral collaboration
c. health planning
d. financial and logistic support
71. This PHC strategy is needed so that people in the barangays can identify their problems, implement and evaluate their
programs
a. community organization
b. social mobilization
c. intra/intersectoral coordination
d. income generating projects
72. Communities have to be organized before PHC can be implemented because:

a. There is always a need for a leader to guide the people
b. People who are organized can work better and faster
c. An organization is more readily recognized by politicians
d. it is the fad to organize communities
73. PHC is implemented by:

a. health center staff
b. hospital medical staff
c. GOs, NGOs and communities
d. A, B, and C
74. The coordination between the Department of Health and the Department of Education, Culture and Sports is an
example of:
a. intersectoral coordination
b. intra-sectoral coordination
c. social mobilization
d. all of the above
75. Organizing the community is the responsibility of:

b. barangay health workers
c. barangay leaders
d. NGOs
e. A,B,C and D
76. The tasks of the Barangay Health Workers related to the elements of PHC is/are the following except:
a. Identification and management of moderate illnesses
b. Health education
c. Monitoring of treatment
d. Inform next higher level in case of outbreaks
77. Monitoring and supervising in PHC is done by:

b. members of the Primary Health Care Committee
c. hospital staff trained in PHC
d. any of the above
e. all of the above

78. Primary health care focuses its services to the:

a. patient in the clinics and the hospital
b. people in the rural and urban areas
c. unserved and underserved population
d. entire citizenry
79. An essential health care based on appropriate technology made available, accessible and affordable to the community:
a. primary health care
b. health cooperative like “Botika sa Baryo”
c. community organization
d. community development
80. All of the following are principles of essential health, except:

a. equitable distribution
b. focus on prevention
c. individual participation
d. multi-sectoral approach
81. When the primary health care nurse motivates individual to change unhealthy practices and beliefs she is doing:
a. clinician role
b. developmental role
c. facilitative role
d. supportive role
82. The cornerstone of Primary Health Care as a partnership approach includes:

a. active community participation and involvement
b. supportive mechanisms and development of technology
c. intra/intersectoral linkages
d. all of the above
83. Tsaang Gubat is use medicinally as:

a. anti-spasmodic
b. anti-fungal
c. diuretic
d. anti-helminthic
84. Community development is:

a. an attempt to judge or evaluate observed facts
b. the control of all factors of man’s physical environment
c. maximizing the family’s capacity for independent action
d. building the concern of community members to help improve the quality of care
85. When the CHN involves people to identify common health problem and motivate them to work together, she is
concerned with:
a. community survey
b. community hygiene
c. community diagnosis
d. community organization
86. CHN, motivation others to the action required for improvement of a problem situation is:
a. assessment
b. mobilization
c. planning
d. evaluation
87. The important foundation in community organizing is to bring together several indigenous leaders. This is:

a. integration
b. core group formation
c. representation
d. mobilization
88. This is a method of establishing rapport with the people and exercising effort to imbibe community lifestyle with them:
a. integration
b. core group formation
c. representation
d. socialization
89. The community health nurse can best control present problems on drug addiction through;
a. treatment center
b. rehabilitation center
c. massive screening program
d. continuing education
90. School health program for an area where intestinal parasitism is rampant includes:
a. physical fitness program
b. deworming program
c. provision of food cafeteria services
d. provision of food supplementary program
91. School nursing as a subspecialty of community health nursing should engage in activities which are focused on:
a. health education and health services in school
b. only health services in schools
c. only on health education on schools
d. health education and health services in schools and in the community
92. The redesigned Approach in School Health Nursing (RASHN) has the concepts of PHC, the features are the following
except:
a. school clinics are improved and made functional
b. referrals are strengthened
c. problems and constraints on logistics and supports
d. teachers assume their role as school health guardian
93. The main goal of an occupational health curse is:

a. prevent illness and maintain homeostasis
b. prevents job related accidents
c. promote and maintain highest degree of well-being of workers
d. established policies to promote health of workers
94. The scope and practice of an occupational health nurse is influence by factors within the work setting, overriding
influence of which is the:
a. nurse’s comfort with the occupational role
b. number of employees
c. policy established by administration within the occupational setting
d. cost of occupational health programs
95. The focus of environmental health services is:

a. food sanitation
b. preservation and improvement of environment
c. investigation of food borne disease outbreaks
d. insect and rodent control

SITUATION: the following questions refer to concepts of communicable diseases:
96. which of the following is typical in diphtheria?

A. koplick’s spots
B. Pseudomembrane
C. ghon
D. risus sardonicus
97. This sexually transmitted disease is characterized by cheesy curd-like vaginal discharges
A. trichomoniasis
B. Gonorrhea
C. moniliasis
D. syphilis
98. this is considered as the most dangerous pertussis:

A. catarrhal stage
B. Paroxysmal stage
C. Convalescent stage
D. prodromal stage
99. Type of parasitism caused by eating infected pork and beef:

A. Ascariasis
B. taeniasis
C. filariasis
D. trichuriasis
100. The following diseases can be transmitted through skin penetration EXCEPT
A. Tetanus
B. Hookworm infection
C. Hepatitis A
D. ascariasis

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PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.

Pre-board Examination for Community Health Nursing for SPLBE 2018

1. The primary goal of Community Health Nursing is:

2. Community Health Nursing is premised on the belief that:

3. Community Health Nursing is concerned with:

5. Community health Nursing a field of nursing practice is directed towards:

7. the philosophy of Community Health Nursing is based on the concept of:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

9. A basic purpose to further community health is attained thru:

10. Which of the following best describe community health nursing?

11. The ultimate goal of community health is:

12. Community Health Nursing services are based on the:

13. Which of the following statements is not correct?

15. Which of the following indicates ineffective preventive health services?

17. In the community oriented nursing practice, the approach is:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

22. Which of the following is a nursing assessment?

23. Which of the following functions refers to evaluation?

26. Preparation for a career as a community health nurse emphasizes being a:

27. The goal of the National Health Plan is:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

32. Nursing process generally can be interchangeable use with:

33. As a social system, the family is in a:

34. The family performs health tasks such as:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

d. health care system

41. The CHN identified nursing needs of the family through:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

44. A health problem accompanied by an inability to resolve the problem is termed:

47. The community can best be defined as:

48. Epidemiology is defined as:

50. The functions of epidemiology is to:

51.In health statistics, mortality records include:

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b. a postpartum mother who died of uterine bleeding

55. The Swaroop-uemura index is;

58. A community health survey is an analysis of:

59. Community assessment is best attained trough

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d. demography and health status

63. Components of population change are considered to be:

65. One of the aims of primary health care is:

69. One characteristic of PHC is that it is acceptable which means

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

72. Communities have to be organized before PHC can be implemented because:

73. PHC is implemented by:

75. Organizing the community is the responsibility of:

77. Monitoring and supervising in PHC is done by:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

78. Primary health care focuses its services to the:

80. All of the following are principles of essential health, except:

82. The cornerstone of Primary Health Care as a partnership approach includes:

83. Tsaang Gubat is use medicinally as:

84. Community development is:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

93. The main goal of an occupational health curse is:

95. The focus of environmental health services is:

PREBOARD EXAMINATION CHN 2018 SPLBE.COM NURSING REVIEW

SITUATION: the following questions refer to concepts of communicable diseases:

96. which of the following is typical in diphtheria?

98. this is considered as the most dangerous pertussis:

99. Type of parasitism caused by eating infected pork and beef:

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