Deck 9: Public Health Policy

Question 1

What is the focus of the Division of Nursing?

A) Enhancing nursing's competence in providing high-tech skills
B) Applying disease prevention, environmental health, and health promotion concepts
C) Providing scholarships for advanced nursing education
D) Ensuring distribution of qualified nursing personnel to meet the nation's health needs

Answer 1

Ensuring distribution of qualified nursing personnel to meet the nation's health needs

Question 2

A nurse is working with a member of the military. Which of the following describes the department that provides this person with health care services?

A) Defense
B) Labor
C) Agriculture
D) Justice

Answer 2

Defense

Question 3

A nurse investigates the interpretation of a state's right to grant abortions. Which of the following branches of government would the nurse be looking at?

A) Executive
B) Legislative
C) Judicial
D) Federal

Answer 3

Judicial

Question 4

A nurse researcher wants to get information on the occurrence of an internationally important disease. Which of the following websites would be the best place to seek this information?

A) The United Nations
B) The WHO
C) The World Bank
D) The World Health Assembly

Question 5

An occupational health nurse maintains a log of injuries from contaminated sharps. Which of the following describes why the nurse must do this?

A) Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
B) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
C) Department of Labor (DOL)
D) Department of Defense (DOD)

Question 6

What term described when planning, delivering, and financing responsibility for programs is shifted from the federal level to the state level?

A) Evolution
B) Devolution
C) Block granting
D) State administration

Question 7

A local health department provides a hypertension screening to all individuals. Which of the following general categories of health care functions is being used?

A) Direct services
B) Financing
C) Information
D) Policy setting

Question 8

A nurse is employed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS). Which of the following branches of government is the nurse working for?

A) Judicial
B) Executive
C) Legislative
D) Health

Question 9

The agency most heavily involved with the health and welfare concerns of United States citizens is the:

A) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS).
B) Public Health Service (PHS).
C) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
D) World Health Organization (WHO).

Question 10

What is one effect of the use of block grants?

A) A reduction of federal expenditures
B) A decreased ability of states to spend money on programming
C) The guaranteed continuation of programs with demonstrated effectiveness
D) The shift from hospital-based to community-based nursing care

Question 11

A nurse discusses with legislators the importance of passing legislation to ban smoking in all public places. Which of the following is the nurse becoming involved in?

A) Policy
B) Politics
C) Law
D) Health policy

Question 12

A nurse supported the passage of needlestick legislation. Which of the following best describes the role of employers because of this legislation?

A) Use universal precautions when dealing with all patients.
B) Select safer needle devices as they became available.
C) Provide needle disposal boxes.
D) Incinerate all infectious waste, including needles.

Question 13

What was the first major federal government action relating to health?

A) The Social Security Act
B) The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
C) The Public Health Service (PHS)
D) Medicare and Medicaid

Question 14

A nurse is working for the federal government to provide for the protection of the public's health. Which of the following actions would the nurse most likely complete?

A) Interpreting decisions related to women's right to privacy
B) Setting up immunization clinics for smallpox vaccine
C) Regulating nursing at the state level
D) Monitoring the influx of disease at the borders

Question 15

A nurse is interested in census data. Which federal department's website would be a good place to start?

A) Department of Labor (DOL)
B) USDHHS
C) Commerce Department
D) World Health Organization (WHO)

Question 16

A nurse becomes actively involved in the development of a health policy in the community. Which of the following describes why this is an important role of the nurse?

A) Government and policy have a large impact on nursing and health.
B) Policy affects nursing values as set forth by Florence Nightingale.
C) Political science is a course of study that parallels nursing.
D) Nurses must interpret laws to fit their practice.

Question 17

A nurse acts to protect the health, safety, and welfare of citizens, such as requiring immunizations of children before admission to school. Which of the following levels of power is being used?

A) Executive
B) Legislative
C) Judicial
D) Police

Question 18

The Office of Homeland Security has a mission to rebuild the crumbling public health infrastructures of each state and to provide what service?

A) Vaccines for smallpox
B) Regulation of nuclear weapons
C) Surveillance of bioterrorism threats
D) Regulation of foreign nurses entering the United States

Question 19

A nurse provides health services for women and children in the community. Which of the following provides the provisions to offer these services?

A) Sheppard-Towner Act
B) Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy program
C) Early Periodic Screening and Developmental Testing (EPSDT) program
D) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program

Question 20

A doctorally prepared nurse (PhD) at a university wants to submit a grant to study the impact of a nursing activity on patient outcomes. From which of the following federal agencies could this nurse potentially seek funding?

A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
B) National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
C) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
D) World Health Organization (WHO)

Question 21

When a school nurse reports suspected child abuse, there is a breach of confidentiality. Which of the following best describes why this breach is allowed?

A) Civil immunity
B) Sovereign immunity
C) Nurse practice act
D) Respondeat superior

Question 22

States have certain continuing education requirements for persons to renew a nursing license. Which of the following best describes the type of law that is being used?

A) Constitutional law
B) Legislation and regulation
C) Judicial and common law
D) Police power

Question 23

A nurse would like to propose legislation requiring all schools to employ a registered nurse. Which of the following would be the first step taken as the nurse implements the legislative process?

A) Introducing the bill to the legislature
B) Moving the bill to the other house
C) Developing the policy option into a bill
D) Hearings, testimony, and lobbying

Question 24

A nurse is writing to a legislator to advocate for funds to support advanced practice nursing education. Which of the following considerations should be made by the nurse? (Select all that apply.)

A) Limit the letter to one page in length.
B) Identify oneself as a nurse.
C) Provide only factual information.
D) Share personal knowledge about the issue.
E) Arrange a face-to-face meeting as soon as possible.

Question 25

A nurse is sued for malpractice and goes to court. Which of the following types of law is being used?

A) Constitutional
B) Common
C) Judicial
D) Institutional

Question 26

A nurse who is working in a home care setting attends a local legislative meeting. Which of the following best describes why the nurse needs to be knowledgeable of health policy?

A) Provide safe nursing care.
B) Prevent elder abuse.
C) Receive payment for the services provided.
D) Influence future legislation.

Question 27

A nursing student is researching various health care services that are provided in prisons. Which of the following describes these services?

A) Funded by the Department of Defense (DOD).
B) Focus on health promotion interventions.
C) Must be provided at an adequate level.
D) Are available to those diagnosed with a chronic illness.

Question 28

A nurse believes additional funding is necessary to support a home-delivered meal program for the elderly. Which of the following would be the best way to share these ideas with a legislator?

A) Send an email.
B) Write a formal letter.
C) Attend a town hall meeting.
D) Schedule a face-to-face visit.

Question 29

The state orders a person newly diagnosed with tuberculosis to be quarantined. Which of the following best describes the type of law that allows the state to do this?

A) Constitutional
B) Common
C) Judicial
D) State

Question 30

The practices of health care providers, nurses, and other health care professionals are differentiated by which of the following?

A) Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA)
B) State board of nursing
C) Scope of practice
D) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)

Question 31

By what means does the Center for Disease Control (CDC) accomplish its mission? (Select all that apply.)

A) Implementing prevention strategies
B) Detecting and investigating health problems
C) Dictating world health policy
D) Fostering safe and healthful environments
E) Protecting the population from bioterrorism events

Question 32

A nurse is found to be negligent. Because of the doctrine of respondeat superior, who is responsible for the negligence?

A) The institution's administrator
B) The nurse's immediate supervisor
C) The nurse's employer
D) The nurse

Question 33

Congress's legal base for actions in health care includes which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A) Providing for the general welfare
B) Raising funds to support research
C) Regulating commerce among the states
D) Providing spending power
E) Increasing revenue by raising taxes