Practice Questions

72. A community experiences a sudden, widespread cybersecurity attack on its healthcare system. What is the immediate public health concern?

A. Inability to access social media
B. Disruption of patient records, inability to access medical history, and compromised critical care services
C. Increased video game usage
D. Longer wait times for non-essential services
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71. A community health nurse is working with a community affected by environmental pollution. What is a critical aspect of environmental justice?

A. Allowing pollution in low-income areas
B. Ensuring that all people, regardless of race, income, or origin, have equal protection from environmental hazards
C. Prioritizing economic development over environmental protection
D. Ignoring community concerns about pollution
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70. A home care patient with Parkinson’s disease is experiencing severe dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). What medicinal intervention is most appropriate regarding medication administration?

A. Crush all medications and mix with food
B. Assess swallowing ability, consult with speech therapist, and consider liquid formulations or crushing/administering via feeding tube if necessary
C. Administer solid pills without liquid
D. Give all medications at once
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69. A community health nurse is developing a program to address the high rates of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease and diabetes. What is a critical primary prevention strategy?

A. Treating complications of NCDs
B. Promoting healthy lifestyles (diet, exercise), screening for risk factors, and advocating for healthy environments
C. Focusing only on genetic predisposition
D. Providing only medication
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68. A community health nurse is using social marketing principles to promote healthy eating. What is a critical aspect of social marketing?

A. Focusing only on individual blame
B. Understanding target audience, tailoring messages, and promoting benefits of healthy behaviors
C. Ignoring audience preferences
D. Using only complex scientific terms
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67. A community health nurse is addressing global health issues. What is a critical factor contributing to global health disparities?

A. Universal access to healthcare
B. Poverty, lack of access to clean water/sanitation, inadequate healthcare infrastructure, and political instability
C. Equal distribution of resources
D. Advanced technology in all regions
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66. A home care patient with a chronic wound is showing signs of localized infection (e.g., redness, warmth, pain, purulent drainage). What is the immediate clinical action?

A. Apply more dressing without assessment
B. Obtain wound culture, notify physician, and consider topical/oral antibiotics as ordered
C. Ignore the symptoms
D. Clean with harsh antiseptic
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65. A community health nurse is evaluating the effectiveness of a health education program using a pre-test/post-test design. What is a critical challenge in interpreting the results?

A. Limited sample size
B. Confounding variables, Hawthorne effect, and ensuring content validity of the tests
C. Too many participants
D. Lack of data
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Jun 6, 2026

64. A home care patient with hypertension is prescribed a new calcium channel blocker. They report significant ankle swelling. What medicinal teaching point is critical?

A. Discontinue the medication immediately
B. Ankle swelling is a common side effect; elevate legs and report to physician if severe
C. Increase salt intake
D. Take a double dose to reduce swelling
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