N109: Foundations in Nursing Practice

N109: Foundations in Nursing Practice Study Guide 6. The community nurse is doing an assessment of a family. Findings include lowself- esteem and low income resulting in lack of medical care and chronic malnutrition in the family. Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the nurse determines thefirst level of intervention needed as: a. Safety b. Esteem c. Love and belonging d. Physiological 7. When assessing the community for the first time, the nurse knows that she must first: a. Gain acceptance in the community b. Plan the interventions that must occur c. Identify the health problems that must be addressed d. Begin an immunization campaign for the children of the community 8. As the nurse assesses a community, good sources of information may include: a. Direct observation b. Morbidity and mortality reports c. Interviews with individuals in the community d. All the above 9. An appropriate nursing diagnosis that might be developed by a community nurse is: a. Knowledge deficit about child immunization schedules related to inadequate training resources in the community as evidenced by lack of immunizations in the population b. Risk for ineffective community coping c. Impaired social interaction d. Risk-prone health behaviors 10. When evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in the community, the nurse identifies an intervention that is not producing the results expected. The best course of action would be: a. Continue the intervention to allow time for the intervention to be effective b. Alter the intervention after collaborating with the community c. Expand the intervention d. Do nothing The answer key is on page 153.

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