Exam 11: Health Promotion Through Education

Which is the best example of a positive learning environment for a group of developmentally disabled adults?

A community health nurse is trying to change a client's attitudes about weight loss due to a recent diagnosis of diabetes. Which domain would be used when teaching this client?

The community health nurse is presenting sexuality education to a group of sixth-grade students. The community health nurse tells the students that they must never have unprotected sexual intercourse or they will die from a sexually transmitted infection and displays pictures of people dying from AIDS. The nurse is using which change strategy?

When implementing a program for teaching parenting to a group of teenagers, the community health nurse determines that the group is in the changing/moving stage of change when the group demonstrates:

The community health nurse evaluates his or her own past personal habit of smoking as he or she prepares to talk to a group of people about the importance of smoking cessation. The nurse recalls that he or she had several unsuccessful attempts before quitting 1 year ago today. The nurse decides to share this information with the group and tells them that all the attempts he or she had made before stopping smoking were necessary steps for his or her eventual success. Which principle of change was the nurse enacting?

Which statement most accurately describes the nurse's role as an educator related to the social determinants of health?

A community health nurse has been getting good attendance and group participation in Saturday class on newborn care for young mothers. The participants receive free transportation and a $10 food voucher for attending. When they participate, prizes are distributed. This nurse is using behavioral theory to encourage clients, focusing the teaching on which concept?

The community health nurse must apply the social determinants of health when caring for clients:

The community health nurse is talking to a group of clients about the health importance of consuming a low-fat diet. The clients are members of a particular cultural group who grows their own food and consumes a lot of animal protein. The clients state that their forefathers ate a diet that was high in animal protein and they had lived into their 90s. The community health nurse expects this argument and points out that their ancestors did not have the luxury of modern machines and they had to engage in a lot more activity than the current generation. This is an example of which principle of effecting change?

Which are examples of a community health nurse providing health promotion teaching? Select all that apply.

A community health nurse is applying the normative-reductive strategy of change when working with clients. In doing so, the nurse engages them into changing their behavior in addition to providing education, based on which assumption?

A community health nurse is preparing a teaching program for a group of elementary school-aged children about substance abuse awareness. The nurse would implement strategies that address which cognitive phase of development for this age group of students?

A community health nurse is providing informal teaching to groups of parents about typical childhood developmental milestones. Which modality would the nurse most likely be using?

A community health nurse develops a written teaching plan for a community education program about nutrition and salt reduction. Which objective would reflect synthesis learning in the cognitive domain?

Which is the proper sequence of stages of change?

When a community health nurse is planning to teach a group of new immigrants from a non-English-speaking country about the need for immunizations, the nurse should include which in his or her plan?

A client who needs to lose weight as part of an overall plan to become healthier has contracted with a nurse for behavior change. The client is working on increasing fruits and vegetables in his or her diet and currently consumes less than one fruit or vegetable per day. The nurse knows that the client is in the unfreezing stage of change when the client stated:

A community health nurse is assessing a client who has expressed wanting to lose weight. The client states, "I need to do this because it is affecting my diabetes." Which stage of the health belief model is the client in?

Which statement about teaching at three levels of prevention is most accurate?

Which factors would the nurse consider related to the social determinants of health? Select all that apply.