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Jackie A.
Buot BSN -4
1. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into the health
care delivery system?
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Intermediate
D. Tertiary
Answer: (A) Primary

The entry of a person into the health care delivery system is usually through a consultation in
out-patient services.
2. The public health nurse is the supervisor of rural health midwives. Which of the following is
a supervisory function of the public health nurse?
A. Referring cases or patients to the midwife

B. Providing technical guidance to the midwife
C. Proving nursing care to cases referred by the midwife
D. Formulating and implementing training programs for midwives
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.
3. 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;
A. Public health nurse

B. Rural health midwife
C. Municipal health officer
D. Any of these health professionals
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.
4. You are the public health nurse in a municipality with a total population of about 20,000.
There are3 health midwives among the RHU personnel. How many more midwife items will
the RHU need?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer: (A) 1
Each rural health midwife is given a population assignment of about 5,000.
5. If the RHU needs additional midwife items, you will submit the request for additional
midwife items for approval to the:
A. Rural Health Unit

B. District Health Office
C. Provincial Health Office
D. Municipal Health Board
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.
6. As an epidemiologist, the nurse is responsible for reporting cases or notifiable diseases.

What law mandates reporting cases of notifiable diseases?
A. Act 3573
B. RA.3753
C. RA 1054
D. RA 1082
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.
7. According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a developmental service.

Which of the following best illustrates this statement?
A. The community health nurse continuously develops himself personally and professionally
B. Health education and community organizing are necessary in providing community health
services
C. Community health nursing in intended primarily for health promotion and prevention and
treatment of disease.
D. The goal of community health nursing is to provide nursing services to people in their own
place of .residence
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.
8. Which disease was declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 4 as a target for,
eradication in the Philippines?
A. Pioliomyelitis
B. Measles
C. Rabies
D. Neonatal Tetanus
Answer: (B) Measles

Presidential Proclamation No. 4 is on the Ligtas Tigdas Program.
9. 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?
A. Line
B. Bar
C. Pie
D. Scatter diagram
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.
10. Which step in community organizing involves training of potential leaders in the
community?
A. Integration
B. Community organization
C. Community study
D. Core group formation
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.

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Jackie A.

Answer: (A) Primary

A. Referring cases or patients to the midwife

Answer: (B) Providing technical guidance to the midwife

A. Public health nurse

Answer: (C) Municipal Health Officer

A. Rural Health Unit

Answer: (D) Municipal Health Board

6. As an epidemiologist, the nurse is responsible for reporting cases or notifiable diseases.

Answer: (A) Act 3573

7. According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a developmental service.

Answer: (B) Measles

Answer: (B) Bar

Answer: (D) Core group formation

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