1. Which is the primary goal of A. Community organizing .

community health nursing? B. Nursing, process

A. To support and supplement the C. Community diagnosis
efforts of the medical profession in D. Epidemiologic process
the promotion of health and
prevention of 4. RA 1054 is also known as the
B. To enhance the capacity of Occupational Health Act. Aside
individuals, families and communities from the number of employees,
to cope with their health needs what other factor must be
C. To increase the productivity of the considered in determining the
people by providing them with occupational health privileges to
services that will increase their level which the workers will be entitled?
of health A. Type of occupation,: agriculture,
D. To contribute to national commercial, industrial
development through promotion of B. Location of the workplace in
family welfare, focusing particularly relation to health facilities
on mothers and children C. Classification of the business
enterprise based on net profit
2. CHN is a community-based D. Sex and age composition of
practice. Which best explains this employees
statement? 
A. The service is provided in the 5. A business firm must employ an
natural environment of people occupational health nurse when it
B. The nurse has to conduct has at least how many employees.
community diagnosis to determine A. 21
nursing needs and problems B. 101
C. The service are based on the C. 201
available resources within the D. 301
community
D. Priority setting is based on the 6. When the occupational health
magnitude of the health problems nurse employs ergonomic
identified principles, she is performing which
of her roles? 
3. Population- focused nursing A. Health care provider
practice requires which of the B. Health educator
following processes? C. Health care coordinator
D. Environment manager
7. A garment factory does not have D. For people to be organized in their
an occupational nurse. Who shall health efforts
provide the occupational health
needs of the factory workers? 10. We say that a Filipino has
A. Occupational health nurse at the attained longevity when he is able
Provincial Health Office to reach the average life span of
B. Physician employed by the factory Filipinos. What other statistic may
C. Public Health nurse of the RHU of be used to determine attainment
their municipality of longevity?
D. Rural Sanitary inspector of the A. Age-specific mortality rate
RHU in their municipality B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop’s index
8. “Public health services are given D. Case fatality rate
free of charge”. Is this statement
true or false? 11. Which of the following is the
A. The statement is true; it is the most prominent feature of public
responsibility of government to health nursing?
provide haste services A. It involves providing home care to
B. The statement is false; people pay sick people who are not confined in
indirectly for public health services the hospital
C. The statement may be true or B. Services are provided free of
false; depending on the Specific charge to people within the
service required catchment area
D. The statement may be true or C. The public health nurse functions
false; depending on policies of the as part of a team providing a public
government concerned. health nursing service
D. Public health nursing focuses on
9. According to C.E. Winslow, preventive, not curative services
which of the following is the goal
of Public Health?  12. According to Margaret
A. For people to attain their Shetland, the philosophy of public
birthrights and longevity health nursing is based on which
B. For promotion of health and of the following?
prevention and diseases A. Health and longevity as birthrights
C. For people to have access to basic B. The mandate of the state to
health services protect the birthrights of its citizens
C. Public health nursing as a
specialized field of nursing B. Conducting random classroom
D. The worth and dignity of man inspection during measles epidemic
C. Taking remedial action on an
13. Which of the following is the accident hazard in the school
mission of the Department of playground
Health? D. Observing places in the school
A. Health for all Filipinos where pupils spend their free times
B. Ensure the accessibility and quality
of health 17. When the nurse determines
C. Improve the general health status whether resources were maximized
of the population in implementing Ligtas Tigdas, she
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino is evaluating:
people by the year 2020 A. Effectiveness
B. Efficiency
14. Region IV Hospital is classified C. Adequacy
as what level of facility?  D. Appropriateness
A. Primary
B. Secondary 18. You are a new B.S.N. graduate.
C. Intermediate You want to become a Public
D. Tertiary Health Nurse. Where will you
apply?
15. What is true of primary A. Department of Health
facilities? B. Provincial Health Office
A. They are usually government-run C. Regional Health Office
B. Their services are provided on an D. Rural Health Unit
out-patient basis
C. They are training facilities for 19. RA 7160 mandates devolution
health professionals of basic services from the national
D. A community hospital is an government to local government
example of this level of health units. Which of the following is the
facilities major goal of devolution?
A. To strengthen local government
16. Which is an example of the units
school nurse’s health care provider B. To allow greater autonomy to local
function? government units.
A. Requesting for BCG from the RHU C. To empower the people and
for school entrance immunization promote their self-reliance
D. To make basic services more complication. You will answer, to
accessible to the people the;
A. Public health nurse
20. Who is the Chairman of the B. Rural health midwife
Municipal Health Board? C. Municipal health officer
A. Mayor D. Any of these health professionals
B. Municipal Health Officer
C. Public Health Nurse 24. You are the public health nurse
D. Any qualified physician in a municipality with a total
population of about 20,000. There
21. Which level of health facility is are3 health midwives among the
the usual point of entry of a client RHU personnel. How many more
into the health care delivery midwife items will the RHU need?
system? A. 1
A. Primary B. 2
B. Secondary C. 3
C. Intermediate D. 4
D. Tertiary
25. If the RHU needs additional
22. The public health nurse is the midwife items, you will submit the
supervisor of rural health request for additional midwife
midwives. Which of the following items for approval to the:
is a supervisory function of the A. Rural Health Unit
pubic health nurse? B. District Health Office
A. Referring cases or patients to the C. Provincial Health Office
midwife D. Municipal Health Board
B. Providing technical guidance to
the midwife 26. As an epidemiologist, the nurse
C. Proving nursing care to cases is responsible for reporting cases
referred by the midwife or notifiable diseases. What law
D. Formulating and implementing mandates reporting cases of
training programs for midwives notifiable diseases?
A. Act 3573
23. One of the participants in a B. RA.3753
hilot training class asked you to C. RA 1054
whom she should refer a patient in D. RA 1082
labor who develops a
27. According to Freeman and A. Line
Heinrich, community health B. Bar
nursing is a developmental service. C. Pie
Which of the following best D. Scatter diagram
illustrates this statement?
A. The community health nurse 30. Which step in community
continuously develops himself organizing involves training of
personally and professionally potential leaders in the
B. Health education and community community?
organizing are necessary in providing A. Integration
community health services B. Community organization
C. Community health nursing in C. Community study
intended primarily for health D. Core group formation
promotion and prevention and
treatment of disease. 31. In which step are plans
D. The goal of community health formulated for solving community
nursing is to provide nursing services problems?
to people in their own place A. Mobilization
of .residence B. Community organization
C. Follow-up/extension
28. Which disease was declared D. Core group formation
through Presidential Proclamation
No. 4 as a target for, eradication in 32. The public health nurse takes
the Philippines? an active role in community
A. Pioliomyelitis participation. What is the primary
B. Measles goal of community organizing?
C. Rabies A. To educate the people regarding
D. Neonatal Tetanus community health problems
B. To mobilize the people to resolve
29. The public health nurse is community health problems
responsible for presenting the C. To maximize the community’s
municipal health statistics using resources in dealing with health
graphs and tables. To compare the problems
frequency of the leading causes of
mortality in the municipality, 33. An indicator of success in
which graph will you prepare? community organizing is when
people are able to:
A. Participate in community activities A. Clinic consultation
for the solution of a community B. Group conferences
problem C. Home visit
B. Implement activities for the D. Written communication
solution of the community problem
C. Plan activities for the solution of 38. The typology of family nursing
the community problem problems is used in the statement
D. Identify the health problem as a of nursing diagnosis in the care of
common concern families. The youngest child of the
delos Reyes family has been
34. Tertiary prevention is needed diagnosed as mentally retarded.
in which stage of the natural This is classified as:
history of disease?  A. Health threat
A. Pre-pathogenesis B. Health deficit
B. Pathogenesis C. Foreseeable crisis
C. Predromal D. Stress point
D. Terminal
39. The delos Reyes couple have 6-
35. Isolation of a child with year old child entering school for
measles belongs to what level of the first time. The delos Reyes
prevention? family has a:
A. Primary A. Health threat
B. Secondary B. Health deficit
C. Intermediate C. Foreseeable crisis
D. Tertiary D. Stress point

36. On the other hand, Operation 40. Which of the following is an

Timbang is_____ prevention? advantage of a home visit?
A. Primary A. It allows the nurse to provide
B. Secondary nursing care to a greater number of
C. Intermediate people
D. Tertiary B. It provides an opportunity to do
first hand appraisal of the home
37. Which type of family-nurse situation
contact will provide you with the C. It allows sharing of experience
best opportunity to observe family among people with similar health
dynamics? problems
D. It develops the family’s initiative in taken from the bag
providing for health needs of its C. Put on an apron to protect her
members uniform and fold it with the right side
out before putting it back into the
41. Which is CONTRARY to the bag.
principles in planning a home visit? D. At the end of the visit, fold the
A. A home visit should have a lining on which the bag was placed,
purpose of objective ensuring that the contaminated side
B. The plan should revolve around is on the outside.
the family health .needs
C. A home visit should be conducted 44. The public health conducts a
in the manner prescribed by RHU study on the factors contributing
D. Planning of continuing care should to the high morality rate due to
involve a responsible-family member heart diseases in the municipality
where she works. Which branch of
42. The PHN bag is an important epidemiology does the nurse
tool in providing nursing care practice in this situation?
during a home visit. The most A. Descriptive
important principle in bag B. Analytical
technique states that it; C. Therapeutic
A. Should save time and effort D. Evaluation
B. Should minimize if not totally
prevent the spread of infection 45. Which of the following is a
C. Should not overshadow concern function of epidemiology?
for the patient and his family A. Identifying the disease condition
D. May be done in variety of ways based on manifestations presented
depending on the home situation, by a client
etc. B. Determining factors that
contributed to the occurrence of
43. To maintain the cleanliness of pneumonia in a 3 year old
the bag and its contents, which of C. Determining the efficacy of the
the following must the nurse do? antibiotic used in the treatment of
A. Wash his/her hands before and the 3 year old client with pneumonia
after providing nursing care to the D. Evaluating the effectiveness of the
family members implementation of the Integrated
B. In the care of family member’s, as Management of Childhood Illness
much as possible, use only articles
46. Which of the following is an D. There is gradual build up of cases
epidemiologic function of the before we epidemic becomes easily
nurse during an epidemic?  noticeable
A Conducting assessment of
suspected cases to detect the 49. In the investigation of an
communicable diseases epidemic, you compare the present
B. Monitoring the condition of the frequency of the disease with the
cases affected by the communicable usual frequency at this time of the
disease year in this community. This is
C. Participating in the investigation to done during which stage of the
determine the source of epidemic investigation?
D. Teaching the community on A. Establishing the epidemic
preventive measures against the B. Testing the hypothesis
disease C. Formulation of the hypothesis
D. Appraisal of facts
47. The primary purpose of
conducting an epidemiologic 50. The number of cases of Dengue
investigation is to; fever usually increases towards the
A. Delineate the etiology of the end of the rainy season. This
epidemic pattern of occurrence of Dengue
B. Encourage cooperation and fever is best described as;
support of the community A. Epidemic occurrence
C. Identify groups who are at risk of B. Cyclical variation
contracting the disease C. Sporadic occurrence
D. Identify geographical location of D. Secular occurrence
cases of the disease in the
community 51. In the year 1980, the World
Health Organization declared the
48. Which is a characteristic of Philippines, together with some
person-to-person propagated other countries in the Western
epidemic? Pacific Region, “free” of which
A. There are more cases of the disease?
disease than expected A. Pneumonic plaque
B. The disease must necessarily be B. Poliomyelitis
transmitted through a vector C. Small pox
C. The spread of the disease can be D. Anthrax
attributed to a common vehicle
 in terms of which characteristic of
a diagnostic examination?
52. In the census of the Philippines A. Effectiveness
in 1995, there were about B. Efficacy
35,299,000 males and about C. Specificity
34,968,000 females. What is the D. Sensitivity
sex ratio?
A. 99.06:100 55. Use of appropriate technology
B. 100.94:100 requires knowledge of indigenous
C. 50.23% technology. Which medical herb is
D. 49.76% given for fever, headache and
cough?
53. Primary health care is a total A. Sambong
approach to community B. Tsaang gubat
development. Which of the C. Akapulko
following is an indicator of success D. Lagundi
in the use of the primary health
care approach? 56. What law created the
A. Health services are provided free Philippine institute of Traditional
of charge to individuals and families and Alternative Health Care?
B. Local officials are empowered as A. RA 8483
the major decision makers in matters B. RA4823
of health C. RA 2483
C. Health workers are able too D. RA 3482
provide care based on identified
health needs of the people 57. In traditional Chinese medicine,
D. Health programs are sustained the yielding, negative and
according to the level of feminine force is termed:
development of the community A. Yin
B. Yang
54. Sputum examination is the C. Qi
major screening tool for D. Chai
pulmonary tuberculosis. Clients
would sometimes get false 58. What is the legal basis of
negative results in this exam. This Primary Health Care approach in
means that the test is not perfect the Philippines?
A. Alma Ata Declaration of PHC
B. Letter of Instruction No 949
C. Presidential Decree No. 147
D. Presidential Decree 996

59. Which of the following

demonstrates inter-sectoral
linkages?
A. Two-way referral system
B. Team approach
C. Endorsement done by a midwife to
another midwife
D. Cooperation between PHN and
public school teacher

60. The municipality assigned to

you has a population of about
20/000. Estimate the number of 1-
4 year old children who be given
Retinol capsule 200.000 every 6
months.
A. 1,500
B. 1,800
C. 2,000
D. 2,300