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151. A community health nurse is using community organizing principles. What is a critical step in community organizing?

A. Making decisions for the community
B. Identifying community leaders, building relationships, and empowering residents to identify and address their own health issues
C. Ignoring community input
D. Imposing solutions from outside
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

150. A community health nurse is assessing an older adult for signs of self-neglect. What is a critical indicator?

A. Well-kept home and good hygiene
B. Unsanitary living conditions, poor hygiene, malnutrition, and neglecting medical care
C. Regular social activity
D. Independent living
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

149. A community health nurse is planning a program to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in adolescents. What is a critical secondary prevention strategy?

A. Promoting abstinence only
B. Providing accessible STI testing and counseling services
C. Treating only symptomatic individuals
D. Ignoring high-risk behaviors
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

148. A home care patient with Type 1 Diabetes is experiencing repeated episodes of hypoglycemia despite stable insulin doses and consistent meals. What medicinal concern is immediate?

A. Patient needs more insulin
B. Possible need for insulin regimen adjustment, assessment of exercise patterns, or changes in food intake
C. Patient needs to eat less
D. Patient needs a higher dose of oral medications
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

147. A community health nurse is involved in global health partnerships. What is a critical principle for effective global health collaboration?

A. Imposing solutions from donor countries
B. Mutual respect, shared ownership, and capacity building within local communities
C. Prioritizing financial gain
D. Ignoring local context
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

146. A community health nurse is providing home-based care for a client with a chronic illness who expresses feelings of hopelessness and loss of control. What is the most critical nursing intervention?

A. Tell them to ignore their feelings
B. Empower the client by fostering self-efficacy, encouraging shared decision-making, and connecting to support resources
C. Take over all care decisions
D. Blame them for their feelings
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

145. A community health nurse is advocating for increased access to affordable housing. What is a critical social determinant of health that affordable housing impacts?

A. Access to luxury goods
B. Health outcomes, educational attainment, and food security
C. Preference for certain architecture
D. Climate change
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

144. A home care patient with heart failure is prescribed a beta-blocker. They report feeling excessively tired and their heart rate is 50 bpm. What medicinal concern is immediate?

A. Patient needs more fluid
B. Possible bradycardia or hypotension due to beta-blocker, requiring physician notification and possible dose reduction
C. Patient needs more exercise
D. Patient needs a higher dose of the medication
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

142. A community experiences a sudden outbreak of a highly antibiotic-resistant infection (e.g., MRSA). What is the immediate public health response strategy?

A. Encourage widespread antibiotic use
B. Implement strict infection control measures, isolation, contact tracing, and judicious use of antibiotics
C. Ignore the resistance
D. Promote sharing of personal items
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

141. A community health nurse is working with a community to address environmental health issues. What is a critical strategy for community engagement?

A. Ignoring community input
B. Engaging community members as active participants in identifying issues and developing solutions
C. Imposing solutions from outside
D. Blaming the community for environmental problems
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

140. A home care patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is prescribed a phosphate binder to be taken with meals. The patient reports not taking it because they forget. What medicinal teaching point is critical?

A. Take it only when feeling unwell
B. Take the phosphate binder with meals to bind dietary phosphorus and prevent hyperphosphatemia
C. Take it once a day at any time
D. Take it after meals
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

139. A community health nurse is planning a primary prevention program for substance abuse in adolescents. What is a critical intervention?

A. Providing treatment for addiction
B. Promoting positive coping skills, refusal skills, and healthy peer relationships
C. Focusing only on punitive measures
D. Ignoring peer pressure
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

138. A community health nurse is providing care to a family experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). What is the most critical initial nursing intervention?

A. Tell the victim to confront the abuser
B. Assess immediate safety, provide resources for safe housing and support, and offer non-judgmental support
C. Ignore the situation as it is a private matter
D. Advise the victim to stay for financial reasons
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

137. A community health nurse is conducting an environmental health assessment. What is a critical environmental health issue related to climate change?

A. Increased biodiversity
B. Vector-borne disease spread (e.g., malaria, dengue) due to changes in vector habitats
C. Cooler global temperatures
D. Reduced natural disasters
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

136. A home care patient with chronic pain is prescribed a transdermal opioid patch. They report new, excessive sedation and slow breathing. What is the immediate clinical action?

A. Apply another patch
B. Remove the patch, assess respiratory status, administer naloxone if indicated, and notify the physician
C. Leave the patch on and monitor
D. Tell the patient to sleep it off
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

135. A community health nurse is advocating for policies that promote health in all policies (HiAP). What is a critical principle of HiAP?

A. Health is solely a healthcare sector responsibility
B. Integrating health considerations into policymaking across all sectors (e.g., education, housing, transportation)
C. Health is a private matter
D. Health is only about treating illness
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026

134. A home care patient with a chronic respiratory condition is prescribed a short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) inhaler for rescue. They report using it more than 2-3 times per week. What medicinal concern is immediate?

A. Patient needs more SABA
B. Uncontrolled asthma/COPD, requiring physician notification and adjustment of maintenance therapy
C. Patient is addicted to SABA
D. Patient should stop all inhalers
nmdcat.online BS Nursing
Jun 6, 2026
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