Which step in community organizing involves training of potential leaders in the community?
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Answer: (D) Core group formation
In core group formation, the nurse is able to transfer the technology of community organizing to the potential or informal community leaders through a training program.
The public health nurse is responsible for presenting the municipal health statistics using graphs and tables. To compare the frequency of the leading causes of mortality in the municipality, which graph will you prepare?
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Answer: (B) Bar
A bar graph is used to present comparison of values, a line graph for trends over time or age, a pie graph for population composition or distribution, and a scatter diagram for correlation of two variables.
Which disease was declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 4 as a target for, eradication in the Philippines?
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Answer: (B) Measles
Presidential Proclamation No. 4 is on the Ligtas Tigdas Program.
According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a developmental service. Which of the following best illustrates this statement?
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Answer: (B) Health education and community organizing are necessary in providing community health services.
The community health nurse develops the health capability of people through health education and community organizing activities.
As an epidemiologist, the nurse is responsible for reporting cases or notifiable diseases. What law mandates reporting cases of notifiable diseases?
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Answer: (A) Act 3573
Act 3573, the Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases, enacted in 1929, mandated the reporting of diseases listed in the law to the nearest health station.
If the RHU needs additional midwife items, you will submit the request for additional midwife items for approval to the:
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Answer: (D) Municipal Health Board
As mandated by R.A. 7160, basic health services have been devolved from the national government to local government units.
You are the public health nurse in a municipality with a total population of about 20,000. There are health midwives among the RHU personnel. How many more midwife items will the RHU need?
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Answer: (A) 1
Each rural health midwife is given a population assignment of about 5,000.
One of the participants in a hilot training class asked you to whom she should refer a patient in labor who develops a complication. You will answer, to the;
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Answer: (C) Municipal Health Officer
A public health nurse and rural health midwife can provide care during normal childbirth. A physician should attend to a woman with a complication during labor.
The public health nurse is the supervisor of rural health midwives. Which of the following is a supervisory function of the pubic health nurse?
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Answer: (B) Providing technical guidance to the midwife
The nurse provides technical guidance to the midwife in the care of clients, particularly in the implementation of management guidelines, as in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.
Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into the health care delivery system?
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Answer: (A) Primary
The entry of a person into the health care delivery system is usually through a consultation in out-patient services.