Mapua Institute of Technology

San Lorenzo Ruiz School of Health Sciences

Seminar 1 exaM
REMEDIAL EXAM CHN
Name: Date:

Section: Professor Ronnievinn Score:

severe dehydration; patient goes home to your level of

1. What is the basic qualification of the Public Health care. In what way could you provide support?

Nurse at the Regional Office? a. Linkage with public works

a. Three years work experience abroad b. Bring patient for check-up

b. BSN, RN and master’s degree c. Refer clients with same problem

c. Six years as Clinical Instructor d. Give IVF in case of repeat dehydration

d. Relative of the Governor 8. The dual role of the PHC is as Community Health Care

2. What is the qualification of the Public Health developer and community development. How should
Instructor?
the nurse link ad provide care at the same time?
a. Recommended by the mayor
a. Health direction for better tomorrow
b. BSN, RN and master’s degree
b. Health care available even with high cost
c. Experience as CI
c. Health care procedure with supplies
d. Experience PHN
d. Health care accessibility with low cost
3. Functions and responsibilities of the regional training
9. The PHC is a system that emphasizes well being of all
nurse begin the use of the nursing process. Which
segments. What is the result of this effort?
process does she need be design a training program
a. Progressive well being
for nurses and midwives?
b. Progressive nation building
a. Assessment c. Intervention
c. Economic development and technology
b. Evaluation d. Planning
d. Economic progress and self reliance
4. Which area of CHN a nurse train or retain to keep her
10. PHC activities are fully integrated with other sectors.
abreast?
Which of the following sectors is always involved?
a. Community organizing
a. Industries c. Congress
b. Matrix of hospital administration
b. Politician d. Public works
c. Model of health care
11. Traditionally, the most common services of health
d. Use of high tech machines care

5. Which of the following should a PHN retain as nursing delivery system include which of the following?

value in her community health practice? a. Disease prevention and health promotion

a. Spiritual c. Human relation b. Hospice and care of terminally ill

b. Goodwill d. Medical director c. Diagnosis and treatment of disease

6. Who receives referral from intermediate level of care d. Rehabilitation and gerontological care
in

Public Health Care?

a. Chief Nurse c. Cardiologist

b. First hospital personnel d. Medical

director

7. The first line hospital workers are done with care of

 a. Integration c. Devolution

12. Ideally, rehabilitation services begins: b. Reorganization d. Promotion

a. Upon admission of client in the health care 18. What global menace is affecting twelve million
people,
system
and some cases are not even reported according to
b. Upon discharge of client from health care
system 1993 statistics?

c. After the client’s physical condition stabilizes a. Human immunodeficiency

d. Soon after the client’s request for rehabilitation b. Human virus immunodeficiency

services c. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

13. In the Philippines, most if not all, day care centers d. Human deficiency syndrome
can
19. What is the aim of CHN?
be managed and or organized by nurses because
they a. To serve all ages of the population

provide: b. Promoting and preserving health

a. Ambulatory care to clients of all ages and are c. Developing of human being

usually situated in malls d. Limited to certain age only

b. Emergency psychiatric care and counseling to 20. Which of the following is the primary focus of CHN?

clients experiencing extreme stress a. Health food c. Health habits

c. Care and supervision of older clients usually b. Health continuum d. Health promotion

those with emotional disturbance 21. CHN is extended to which of the following?

d. Care and supervision of pre-school children a. Individuals, families and community

usually located in the Barangay b. Female population only

14. Which of the following is an important policy health c. Mature and elderly

trust in the National Health Plan of the DOH? d. Adolescents, adult and elderly

a. Step ladder education c. Information 22. In 1975 the DOH, national Health Plan reviewed the

b. Immunization day d. Anti-smoking health system. What was implemented after the

15. Which exciting programs capture spirit and style? restructuring of the DOH?

a. Health in the hands of the people a. Philippine Heart Center of Asia

b. Collaboration in the health financing b. Alta Mata Restructuring of the WHO

c. Decentralization of health services c. Tertiary hospitals

d. “23 in 93” d. restructured Health Care delivery System

16. Which of the following is an example of preventive and 23. Public health is defined as a science and an art
Public
promotive programs, which embark on family, oriented
Health as an art refers to:
programs?
a. leadership skills of the nurse
a. Hospital with preventive cause infection
b. Organizing people to participate
b. Hospital as center of awareness
c. Creativity in making health programs
c. Preventive programs against smoking
d. Team building in group work
d. Preventive programs against drug addiction
24. Hanlon stresses that Public health is dedicated in
17. Which of the following is believed to be guarantee of
common attainment of highest level of physical health,
effective of health services?
 mental, and social well-being. What is the concise a. Weight reduction c. Mental hygiene

definition? b. Smoking cessation d. Physical fitness

a. Emotional quotient 30. Which of the following characterize health promotive

b. Total well being behavior for client with hypertension?

c. Focus on physical fitness a. Taking medication obtained over the counter for

d. Fragmented health physical symptoms

25. In the community health, assessment of the client b. Having fresh vegetables and fruits regularly
in
requires multidisciplinary approach. Who is the team
her diet
leader of the group?
c. Consulting a physician because of perceived
a. Nursing student c. Trained healer
headache
b. Doctor d. Nurse
d. Withdrawal from work activities because of
26. Which of the following community nursing activities
fatigability
can be considered a primary level of prevention?
31. The DOH has strong TB control program. Which of
a. Conducting adolescent reproductive health the

counseling following specific objectives stipulated in the manual

is
b. Injecting DMPA to family planning acceptors
most important?
c. Administering medications to TB patients who
a. Vaccinate with BCG eligible population
come to the clinic
b. Control persons with TB
d. Teaching a stroke victim how to perform active
c. Decrease prevalence
and passive exercises to prevent contractures
d. Health for all in 2000
27. A nurse is conducting health education on diet and
32. Which of the following procedure should be done
activities for hypertensive clients. This kind of nursing
immediately by the PHN during case finding of TB
activity is an example of what level of prevention?
infected persons?
a. Tertiary c. Quarterly
a. Collection of sputum
b. Primary d. Secondary
b. Distribution of isoniazid
28. A 60-year old client has hypertension. Lack of
exercise c. X-ray mobile unit

increased her vulnerability to hypertension. The age of d. BCG injection

the client and lack of exercise that increased her 33. The role of the PHN is home supervision. Which of
the
vulnerability to hypertension is:
following does the nurse monitor?
a. Life style determinant
a. Appropriate health behavior
b. Negative health behavior
b. Disinfecting utensils
c. Illness behavior
c. Preventive treatment of contrast
d. Risk factor
d. Separation or isolation
29. A nurse should encourage the client age 60 and with
34. Preventive treatment shown to be effective in
lack of exercise to perform which of the following
preventing progression of latent infection is use of
activities to improves her present level of wellness
and inexpensive drug. Which of the following drugs does

decrease the risk of hypertension the doctor order?

 a. isoniazid c. Cephalexin 40. The role of the Public Head Nurse in epidemiological

b. Rifampicin d. Daiteparin investigation is one of the following:

35. Which of the following is an appropriate health a. Referral to other agencies

teaching
b. Transport of carries
for a group of families with TB infected members?
c. Active case finding
a. Enumerations of drugs of choice
d. Community meeting
b. Food choices for menu planning
41. What are these outcome criteria of technology?
c. Mode of transmission and control of spread
a. Unhazardous to children
d. Demonstration of disinfections
b. Effectiveness and safety
36. An important health teaching of the community health
c. Understandable to people
nurse to mothers with children is to prevent Acute
d. Compatibility with supply
Respiratory Infection (ARI). Which of the following is
42. Inclusiveness of technology relates to safety and
the best and LEAST expensive way of RI prevention? cost.

a. Immunization c. Breast feeding Vaccines are expensive but nurse has to explain the

b. Medication d. Ventilation value of prevention. Which among these vaccines is

37. Which of the following terms refers to the study of expensive?

factors that influence the occurrence ad distribution a. DPT c. BCG

or
b. Polio d. Measles and chicken
spread of diseases? pox

a. Mortality c. Epidemiology 43. Feasibility of technology means that method could be

b. Prevalence d. Morbidity used without electricity. If there is no power, what

38. Instant mortality rate means deaths less than one should be the nurse use?
year
a. Autoclave c. LPG stove
of age per thousand live births. Which of the following
b. Sterilization d. Disposable syringe
indicates the correct formula to determine infant
44. Which herbal plant could be used for ailments like
mortality rate?
cough, fever and abdominal pain?
a. Total no. of cases of disease (old & new) at given time
X 100 a. Bayabas c. Herba Buena

Estimated population at that time b. Lagundi d. Sambong

b. No. of deaths from specific disease X 100 45. In acute dehydration, mothers may use solution and
let
No. of cases of the same disease
her baby drink. What is this solution?
c. Live births of the same year X 100
a. Salt solution c. Glucose electrolyte
Deaths under 1 year
b. Pedialyte c. Glucose intolerance
d. Deaths under 1 year X 100
46. To which category do traditional healers belong?
Live births of the same year
a. Barangay Health workers
39. In planning the epidemiological investigation, what is
b. Trained personnel
not a part of establishing facts of presence of
c. Grassroots workers
epidemic?
d. Village couriers
a. Prevalence c. Verify diagnosis
47. What do you call PHC workers who trained in
b. Correlation of data d. Prompt reporting college?
 a. City health unit workers c. Lecture to students in their school

b. RHU workers d. Interview teenagers

c. District hospital 54. Drug dependents should be treated medically and not

d. Intermediate level of care punitively. What would teach the significant others of

48. Who provides back up health service in a diagnostic your client?

facility? a. report to authority any harmful behavior

a. Medical specialists c. First hospital workers b. Promote environment, which would reduce

b. Dialysis centers d. Laboratory and x-ray negative attitude

49. Who provides elementary preventive and curative c. Sanction any untoward behavior

health care to promote healthy environment? d. Reduce allowance of drug dependent

a. Community network 55. Rehabilitation of drug dependents requires a program

b. Village health workers of activities that is carried out by a group of health

c. Council if healers workers. As community health nurse, what is your

d. Barangay Officers nursing goal?

50. Who receives referrals of grassroots level? a. Maximize client’s level of personality

a. Village c. Primary development

b. Intermediate d. Council b. Discontinue medication

51. As a social program, drug dependency is c. Able to go back to school or work

multifaceted.
d. High performance in assigned task
The highest contributing factor to this problem among
56. A baggage porter at the airport has cough and claims
teenagers is which one?
to have seen a doctor but stopped medication for TB
a. Public ignorance
because he is poor. What is your advice to him?
b. Weak family relationship
a. Give him money
c. Peer group pressure
b. Let him stop working
d. Economic condition
c. refer to DSSD
52. As a nurse, your preventive measure to drug
d. Got to the City Health Center
dependence is very important. Which nursing function
57. What would you tell a family member who is
is a priority in CHN? diagnosed

a. Participate in promoting of mental health among of tuberculosis:

families a. let the family see you at RHU

b. Set up mental health clinic with a doctor b. Conduct home visit

c. Invite a psychiatrist lecturer to teenagers c. Refer the Delgado family to Civic club

d. Look for sponsors to hospitalized drug d. Have all members checked for TB

dependence 58. A community health nurse is caring for a client with

53. Case finding is one strategy to prevent increase of tuberculosis. Which of the following is an appropriate

drug dependency among young adults. Which one nursing action?

below should you do as a CHN? a. Boil all utensils

a. recognize early signs and symptoms b. Separate utensils of husband

b. House to house visits

 c. Instruct the client to go to the center for check a. developmental stages
up
b. Safety awareness
d. See nearest doctor
c. Normal sensory functioning
59. The family came to the center. What is your individual
d. Lifestyle habits
care to each TB family member?
65. Measles vaccine is stored at refrigerator temperature
a. Have each one a record
of 35.0 degree C 45.4 degree C and must be kept
b. Go the district hospital for x-ray from

c. Ask if the children had EPI light. How long should the vaccine be exposed after

d. Ask for free medication from center which this is discharged?

60. The youngest child is 3 year-old and is positive for a. 240 minutes c. 12 hours

Tuberculin Test. Why will you not give medicine to b. 8 hours d. 6 hours

her? 66. Which among the following nursing responsibilities

a. She is still young should a nurse do to control patient, contact, and

b. She is cured environment at once?

c. She has immunity a. report to local authority

d. She needs good food only b. Disinfect all bottles

61. To render comfort measure is priority, which include c. Inject attenuated vaccine

care of skin, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. To clean d. Immunize with live vaccine
the
67. If assigned to conduct research related to TB control,
mouth your antiseptic solution is in some form of
which which would provide epidemiological and sociological

one below? information, choose one method of data collection:

a. Water c. Alkaline a. Identify operational problem

b. Sulfur d. Salt b. Prevalence survey

62. As a public health nurse, you teach the mother and c. read related literature

family members the prevention of complication of d. Include TB cases as population

measles. Which of the following should be closely 68. Immunization of contract is a control measure. How

watched? many hours of exposure to the disease could you give

a. temperature fails to drop the vaccine?

b. Inflammation of conjunctiva a. 24 c. 72

c. Inflammation of nasopharynx b. 36 d. 48

d. Ulcerative stomatitis 69. To involve the wives of laborer, the nurse can teach

63. Method of prevention and control is to avoid exposure health habits. Which one is attractive to women to

to infected person. Nursing responsibility for enjoin them?

rehabilitation of the patient is provision of: a. Teaching simple nursing care to the sick in the

a. terminal disinfection c. Immunization home

b. Injection of gamma d. Comfort measures b. Cooking lessons every Friday

64. Which of the following will least likely individual’s c. Fun run for fitness
safety
d. Demonstration of nursing procedure
in the community?
70. Which improvement of Occupational Health Program
 could the PHN get involved? b. Sentinel sites d. AIDS national Council

a. Medical Services for Workers 78. Which program broadens context on women health

b. Industrial Toxicology and safe motherhood?

c. Industrial hygiene a. Family Planning Organization of the Philippines

d. Program for geothermal Workers b. DOH Family Planning Services

71. An example of self-financed project that is supervised c. Family Planning Program of the Philippines

by a nurse is “BOTIKA SA BARYO.” How BOTIKA SA d. JPHIEGO Program on Reproductive Health

BARYO put up? 79. Which innovative scheme provides health manpower

a. Pharmacy Sa Barangay in doctor-less, nurse-less municipalities?

b. RHU Drug Store a. Health human Resource Program

c. Common medicine for BOTIKA SA BAYAN b. Human resource for Health Manpower

d. Common medicine para sa BOTIKA SA BARYO c. Health Manpower Resource Program

72. On health education, which one is the responsibility of d. Resource Manpower of Department of Health

the Community Health Nurse? (DOH)

a. Intensive and responsive IEC campaign 80. Which of these programs promotes backyard

b. Intersection coordination propagation and mass production?

c. Supervision and monitoring a. Herbal collection of Scientific benefits

d. Periodic reporting and recording b. Anthropology and Tradition Medicine

73. Who is the trained health personnel accepted by c. Herbal and Philippine Tradition Medicine
Barrio
d. Indigenous healing
folks to deliver babies?
81. The statistical work in the community vital statistics is
a. Community organization officer
mostly done by the Sanitarian but which of the
b. Community health nurse
program’s data does the nurse do?
c. Traditional healer
a. CD cases c. Maternal Child care
d. Community health worker
b. Primary Health Care d. Vital statistics
74. In case of complication due to improper use of
82. In TB control Program DOH has specific objectives;
technology, to whom should case be referred to?
one on prevention is another program, which is
a. District hospital c. City health officer
focused on children. Which one below is this
b. Midwife d. Rural physician program?

75. In what place the WHO held a meeting where PHC a. Differential Prophylaxis

was discussed? b. Sputum collection and examination

a. Geneva c. Russia c. EPI for BCG vaccine

b. Vienna d. Alma Ata d. Tuberculin Skin Testing

76. Which program is active to identify risk of AIDS? 83. Disinfection of water supply is required in newly

a. AIDS prevention c. AIDS National Council constructed well, repaired pipes, contaminated

b. AIDS Surveillance d. Sentinel site nationwide container and what else?

77. Which program advocates right to protection and a. Unimproved spring c. Surface water

human dignity? b. Open well d. River dam

a. HIV / AIDS patients c. AIDS Prevention

84. Which of the following is an example of tertiary level
of
prevention?
a. teaching a stroke victim how to check bath
water
to prevent burns
b. Administering insulin injection in diabetic
patients
c. Supervising Lamaze class to couples
d. Inserting IUD to a mother with 2 children
85. The promotion and protect of health is a major
responsibility of the Department of health, which can
be the most successful when there is an active
partnership with and / or involvement of:
a. Department of Education and Local
Government
b. Professional Health Association
c. The People and every citizen
d. Non-Government organization
86. Which of the following is a health concern in the
primary level of prevention?
a. Development of Health habits and practices
b. Poverty alleviation
c. early and prompt treatment
d. Case finding
87. The philosophy of CHN practice is based on the belief
that the family is the smallest unit in a democratic
society. Which age group should be the priority of the
nurses in the community?
a. Older persons and terminally ill
b. Adolescents and adults
c. Infants and children
d. All ages regardless of status
88. One important principle of CHN is accurate recording
and reporting of data as basis for evaluating of health
program. This vital responsibility of the nurse must
be
executed for which further purposes?
a. Scheduled of assignment
b. National archives
c. Research and Legal
d. Financial evaluation
89. The Chief Nurse in City and regional Health Officer is
concerned with administration, supervision and
supervision and control of nursing practice to attain
highest quality. Among her function ad
responsibilities,
which one below encompasses development of
leadership skills?
a. Establishment of Good Working relationship
b. Conducting an assembly for instruction
c. Listing of families in each purok
d. Courtesy call with the town mayor
90. Provision of nursing care to clients includes home
visit
and clinic consultation according to priority. Which
one
below should the CHN utilize to reach more people in
the community for Health promotion?
a. Home visit for TB control
b. Community assemblies like mothers class
c. referrals of cases to appropriate agencies
d. reach out clinic for distribution of medicine
91. Hospital waste management program is a
requirement
before constructed of a new facility. The hospital
personnel are required to train in waste management
to prevent which of the following?
a. Communicable disease
b. Nosocomial infection
c. Cross infection
d. Transmission of infection
92. Nursing responsibilities and activities toward of
environmental pollution is beyond measure. The
nurse
is in the best position to conduct health education
through which of the following?
a. development of designs or program
b. Use of communication media
c. Development and distribution of IEC
materials
d. Role modeling approach
93. This EPI is based on 3 principles. Which one is pro- but he attending a seminar. You were available as

people? the RHU nurse. What would you do now if she tells

a. Case findings and treatment on site you that she is bleeding?

b. A basis health services a. Accompany her to the provincial hospital

c. Based on epidemiological situation b. Tell her to go the city

d. Mass approach rather than individuals c. Give transfusion at once

94. Which one is primary elements of EPI? d. Check vital signs

a. Logistics management

b. Target setting

c. Information campaign

d. Surveillance and research

95. Measles is given subcutaneously a dose of 0.5 ml. At

what age is this done?

a. Nine months c. One and half

year

b. Six months d. One year

96. Which collaborating agency in the world helps erase

Polio in children?

a. Canadian International development Agency

b. World Health Organization

c. Rotary International

d. UNICEF

97. What is an incidence rate (Q.V.) used to included all

person in the population who become chronically ill?

a. Immunity c. Mortality

b. Pathogenocity d. Morbidity

98. What is the rate calculated in the same way (q.v.)

using as numerator number of deaths occurring

during

a stimulated time?

a. Immunity c. Mortality

b. Pathogenocity d. Morbidity

99. To promote appropriate health practices of pregnant

women, you as public health nurse must focus on:

a. prompt referral system

b. Linkages with PNA, IMAP and POGS

c. Accurate record and report

d. Public education program

100. A woman came to the RHU to consult with the MHO