Community Health Nursing - The Public Health Nurse

Community Health Nursing - The Public Health Nurse


Chapter 3 - DOH White Page 37 - 87
1. The Public Health Nurse is under what professional organization?
Answer: National League of Philippine Government Nurses
(Subject: Professional Adjustment)
2. What is the Republic Act (R.A) Magna Carta for Public Health workers?
Answer: Seven 3 Zero 5 (R.A. 7305)
(Subject: Professional Adjustment)
This is one of the commonly asked Law Code. Also with a  phase "The Public Office is a Public Trust!"
3. What is the Republic Act (R. A.) Local Government Code?
Answer: Seven 1 Six 0 (R.A. 7160)
(Subject: Professional Adjustment)
This is one of the commonly asked Law Code in connection with CHN.
4. A nursing procedure wherein the patient visits the center to avail the services.
Answer: Clinic Visit
Clue Word: Patient visits the Center. (If you want to learn more about it/ if  you have time - it's a good thing to learn more about the 'Standard Procedures Performed During Clinic Visits' - even a summary of it will do)
5. It is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care.
Answer:  Home Visit
6. Tool by which the nurse will enable to perform nursing procedure with ease and deftness.
Answer: Bag Technique
7. An essential and Indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which she will have to carry along during her home visit.
Answer: Public Health Bag
Bag Technique and Public Health Bag are commonly asked questions. Don't interchange it - 2 points is very important.
Difference between Benedict's Solution and Acetic Acid.  Benedict's - Sugar and Acetic - Ketones (BSAK)
8. ''Empowerment" or building the capability of people for future community action.
Answer: Community Organizing
 ( Read more about COPAR - Community Organizing Participatory Action Research)
5 stages of Organizing: Community Analysis > Design and Initiation > Implementation > Program Maintainance - Consolidation > Dissemination - Reassessment (Good thing you have an idea about this!)
9. It is a study of occurences and distribution of diseases as well as the distribution and determinants of health states or events in specified population.
Answer: Epidemiology
Clue Word: Study of the distribution of disease and Search for the determinants (causes) of disease
The Epidemiologic Triangle: Agent, Host and Environment

10. It is an intermittent occurence of a few isolated and unrelated cases in a given locality.
Answer: Sporadic Occurence
Clue Word: Few and Scattered cases, no relationship between cases, occur ON and OFF (meaning intermittent)
11. It is a continous occurence throughout a period of time, of the usual number of cases in a given locality.
Answer: Endemic Occurence
Clue: Occurring in the locality and the level of occurence is more or less constant throughout a period of time.
12. It is an unussually large number of cases in a relatively short period of time 
Answer: Epidemic Occurence
Clue: Epidemya like Bird Flu
13. It is a simultaneous occurence of Epidemic of the same disease in several countries.
Answer: Pandemic [like A(H1N1)]
14. It is an on-going systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health data.
Answer: Public Health Surveillance
15. Systematic study of vital events such as births, illnesses, marriages, divorce, separation and death . 
AnswerL Vital Statistics
Clue: Disease - Morbid; Death - Mortal (commonly asked questions)
National Statistics Office (NSO) -  statistic on population and its characteristics
Office of the Local Civil Registrar - where death and birth are registered per Municipality or City
16. Shows the relationship between a vital event and those persons exposed to occurrence of said event with given area with specific unit of time.
Answer: Rate
Clue: Rate - SAME event and time
17. It describe the relationship between 2 numerical quantities without taking particular considerations to the place or time.
Answer: Ratio
Clue: Ratio - even without same event and time (simple right!!)
18. Refers to Total Living Population
Answer: Crude Rate/ General Rate
(If you have time, please refresh the different Rate and Ratio formula and definitions Page 76)
19. The fundamental building block or foundation of the Field Health Services and Information System (FHSIS).
Answer: Treatment Record (Tx Record)
FYI: A document where the complaints on consultation and diagnosis are recorded.
20. The second building block of Field Health Services and Information System (FHSIS).
Answer: Target List/ Client List
TREATMENT RECORD + TARGET LIST = Field Health Services and Information System