All Free Community Health Nursing MCQs with Answers
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- A. A single patient receiving treatment in a hospital
- B. A population sharing a place, interest or common health concern
- C. A group of nurses working in the same health facility
- D. A family member providing care to one relative
Explanation: Community health nursing considers groups of people who share a location, identity, need or health concern.
Correct answer: A population sharing a place, interest or common health concern- A. Resource assessment
- B. Nursing diagnosis
- C. Outcome evaluation
- D. Case management
Explanation: Resource assessment identifies the people, organisations, facilities and services available to address community needs.
Correct answer: Resource assessment- A. Air quality and housing conditions
- B. Availability of hospital beds
- C. Genetic history of the children
- D. Number of community volunteers
Explanation: Indoor smoke exposes children to harmful air pollutants and is linked with respiratory illness.
Correct answer: Air quality and housing conditions- A. Neonatal mortality rate
- B. Infant mortality rate
- C. Maternal mortality ratio
- D. Under-five mortality rate
Explanation: The infant mortality rate includes deaths during the first year of life per 1,000 live births.
Correct answer: Infant mortality rate- A. Advise the patient to stop treatment when symptoms improve
- B. Teach cough hygiene and improve ventilation in shared rooms
- C. Recommend that all family members take antibiotics without assessment
- D. Tell the family to keep the patient permanently isolated outdoors
Explanation: Cough hygiene, good ventilation and correct treatment reduce the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Correct answer: Teach cough hygiene and improve ventilation in shared rooms- A. Assessment
- B. Planning
- C. Implementation
- D. Evaluation
Explanation: Implementation is the stage in which planned interventions are carried out.
Correct answer: Implementation- A. Community participation
- B. Institutional dependency
- C. Individual case management
- D. Clinical delegation
Explanation: Community participation means residents take part in identifying needs, making decisions, contributing resources and reviewing results.
Correct answer: Community participation- A. Cultural and communication barrier
- B. Biological susceptibility
- C. Seasonal disease variation
- D. Shortage of essential medicines
Explanation: Language differences and failure to provide culturally responsive communication can prevent people from understanding and using services.
Correct answer: Cultural and communication barrier- A. Repeat the same diet instructions more firmly
- B. Link families with social support and affordable local food resources
- C. Advise families to avoid eating until better food is available
- D. Refer every family directly to a tertiary hospital
Explanation: Connecting families with available social and food resources addresses the economic determinant that limits healthy choices.
Correct answer: Link families with social support and affordable local food resources- A. Whether the station was photographed during the launch
- B. Whether residents have skills, supplies and responsibility for maintenance
- C. Whether the nurse personally approves the station design
- D. Whether the project received attention on social media
Explanation: Sustainability depends on local skills, continuing supplies, ownership and clear responsibility for maintenance.
Correct answer: Whether residents have skills, supplies and responsibility for maintenance- A. It enables people to increase control over factors affecting their health
- B. It provides treatment only after a disease has been diagnosed
- C. It measures deaths caused by a disease in a population
- D. It transfers all health decisions to medical specialists
Explanation: Health promotion helps individuals and communities gain control over the conditions that influence health.
Correct answer: It enables people to increase control over factors affecting their health- A. Primordial prevention
- B. Primary prevention
- C. Secondary prevention
- D. Tertiary prevention
Explanation: Primordial prevention prevents the development of risk factors in a population, such as preventing tobacco use before it becomes common.
Correct answer: Primordial prevention- A. Attack rate
- B. Case fatality rate
- C. Point prevalence
- D. Crude birth rate
Explanation: An attack rate is the proportion of an at-risk group that develops illness during a specific outbreak.
Correct answer: Attack rate- A. Epidemiological triad
- B. Chain of referral
- C. Levels of prevention
- D. Continuum of care
Explanation: The epidemiological triad consists of agent, host and environment, with the vector included in the environmental context.
Correct answer: Epidemiological triad- A. Case fatality rate
- B. Incidence rate
- C. Attack rate
- D. Infant mortality rate
Explanation: Case fatality rate reflects the severity of a disease by comparing deaths from the disease with the number of people who have it.
Correct answer: Case fatality rate- A. Active participation of learners
- B. One-way delivery of information
- C. Use of technical terminology
- D. Separation of teaching from practice
Explanation: Active participation improves understanding because learners practise the skill and receive immediate clarification.
Correct answer: Active participation of learners- A. Family-centred approach
- B. Disease-centred approach
- C. Institution-centred approach
- D. Procedure-centred approach
Explanation: A family-centred approach considers the family system, its relationships, strengths and caregiving capacity when planning care.
Correct answer: Family-centred approach- A. Outreach service
- B. Inpatient service
- C. Palliative service
- D. Quarantine service
Explanation: Outreach services extend preventive and promotive care to people who have difficulty reaching a health facility.
Correct answer: Outreach service- A. Adaptation to community characteristics
- B. Uniformity of communication
- C. Restriction of community feedback
- D. Separation from local culture
Explanation: Community programmes should be adapted to language, literacy, culture and local practices so that people can understand and use the…
Correct answer: Adaptation to community characteristics- A. It identifies assets that can support community action
- B. It replaces assessment of community health problems
- C. It determines the treatment dose for each patient
- D. It limits responsibility to the health department
Explanation: A resource inventory identifies local assets that can be coordinated to address health needs and strengthen self-reliance.
Correct answer: It identifies assets that can support community action