Comm Health Nursing Practice (FINAL)

What Act has as its cornerstones publicly administered, comprehensive, universal, portable, and

accessible?

a. Hospital Insurances and Diagnostic Services Act

b. Constitution Act

c. Canada Health Act

d. American Medicare Act

c. Canada Health Act

What is one of the primary objectives of Canadian health care policy according to the Canada Health

Act (1984)?

a. Facilitate reasonable access to hospital care

b. Protect the health care system from privatization

c. Restore stable health care funding to the provinces

d. Protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well-being of the residents of Canada

d. Protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well-being of the residents of Canada

How has the Canada Health Act (1984) been successful in ensuring all Canadians have access to the

health care they need?

a. Creating specific mechanisms to ensure accountability and transparency

b. Establishing criteria and conditions for insured health care services that must be met before federal transfer of funds are made

c. Penalizing provinces that do not comply with the public health aspects of the act

d. Determining the extent to which each province and territory has satisfied the conditions and criteria of the Act

b. Establishing criteria and conditions for insured health care services that must be met before federal transfer of funds are made

Which model dominated public and political thinking about health during the time that the Canadian

Medicare System was created in 1957?

a. Healthy lifestyle model

b. Socio-environmental model

c. Biomedical model

d. Health promotion model

c. Biomedical model

Which document was considered revolutionary by the global community and led to a

reconceptualization of health promotion?

a. The Lalonde Report

b. The Declaration of Alma Ata

c. The Ottawa Charter

d. The Social Determinants of Health

a. The Lalonde Report

How does Canada rank in the world with respect to healthcare?

a. Canada has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world

b. Canada's universal coverage is more costly and less effective than the privatized U.S. health care system

c. Canada's life expectancy at birth ranks among the highest in the world

d. Canada spends less than one-half as much per capita on healthcare than Japan

c. Canada's life expectancy at birth ranks among the highest in the world

What are the four determinants of health identified in the Lalonde Report (1974)?

a. Socio-environmental, biomedical, disease prevention, and health promotion

b. Gender, culture, working conditions, and education

c. Biological, emotional, spiritual, and psychological

d. Environment, lifestyle, human biology, and healthcare system

d. Environment, lifestyle, human biology, and healthcare system

What provided the basis for the Ottawa Charter?

a. Epp Report

b. Alma Ata Declaration

c. Canada Health Act

d. British North America Act

a. Epp Report

What is involved in a system that focuses on primary care?

a. People accessing health care services at the first point of contact

b. Health education, proper nutrition, and disease prevention

c. Health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention

d. Accessible, affordable, and acceptable health care

a. People accessing health care services at the first point of contact

In which province do Family Health Teams deliver primary health care?

a. Quebec

b. Nova Scotia

c. Ontario

d. British Columbia

c. Ontario

Who funds public health in Canada?

a. Provinces and municipalities

b. Municipalities

c. Federal government

d. Provincial and federal government

a. Provinces and municipalities

Which of the following is a challenge of public health in Canada?

a. There is decreased complexity and increased funding

b. While funding is decreasing, it is still adequate

c. Public health infrastructure was constructed

d. There is disparity in human resources among provinces

d. There is disparity in human resources among provinces

Which services have been steadily growing in Canada over the past 35 years?

a. Public health

b. Acute care

c. Home care

d. Long term care

c. Home care

Mr. Jones lives in Ontario and requires home care nursing and support services. Who would deliver

these services?

a. Social services branch of the department of health

b. Local public health units

c. Agency contracted by the Local Health Integration Network

d. Local health authority

c. Agency contracted by the Local Health Integration Network

Role clarity has been identified as an issue for community health nurses. What is a component of role

clarity?

a. Understanding the role of other health care professionals

b. Sharing a common language to describe the role

c. Leadership development

d. Access to specialized expertise

b. Sharing a common language to describe the role

What would help community health nurses to be valued more by other health care professionals?

a. To be able to describe their role with confidence

b. Quality supervision and management

c. Access to ongoing education and training

d. Stronger leadership in the area

a. To be able to describe their role with confidence

Which of the following is identified as attributes of nurse leaders that contribute to effectiveness:

a. Avoiding risk taking

b. Organizational ability

c. Social awareness

d. Comfort with routines

c. Social awareness

Within a context of community health nursing practice, which organizational supports positively

influence practice?

a. A work environment that disestablishes leadership

b. A work environment that devalues unique contribution of staff

c. A work environment that has unstable funding

d. A work environment that has access to resources

d. A work environment that has access to resources

Transformational leadership practices include which of the following?

a. Building relationships and trust

b. Creating disempowering work environments

c. Creating a culture that supports knowledge stasis

d. Avoiding taking any risks

a. Building relationships and trust

Professionals working in health service organizations with strong leadership demonstrate which of the

following?

a. Lower levels of organizational effectiveness

b. Decreased organizational commitment

c. Increased ability to lead a stagnant workforce

d. Greater sense of affiliation with organizational goals

d. Greater sense of affiliation with organizational goals

Which of the following personal resources are necessary for developing and sustaining leadership?

a. Personal identity

b. Leadership expertise

c. Community attributes

d. Family supports

b. Leadership expertise

What is one way to strengthen collaborative leadership at the national level?

a. Promoting community health solutions across sectors

b. Creating an empowering work environment

c. Cultivating personal supports

d. Willingness to be risk averse

a. Promoting community health solutions across sectors

What term refers to "the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or

events in specified populations"?

a. Nosology

b. Epidemiology

c. Susceptibility

d. Biologic plausibility

b. Epidemiology

Who is believed to be the first person to notice and record the relationship between the

environment and health

a. Labonte

b. Nightingale

c. Epp

d. Hippocrates

d. Hippocrates

A nurse is working with the school-aged population during the prepathogenesis period.

What primary prevention activity would promote the health of this population?

a. Case finding children who may have been exposed to a teacher with hepatitis A

b. Teaching handwashing and respiratory hygiene

c. Providing antimicrobials for newly diagnosed contacts

d. Advocating for testing of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at a schoolbased clinic

b. Teaching handwashing and respiratory hygiene

A nurse is working with a student nurse and explains that 12% of deaths were from colorectal cancer in 2010. What word is used to describe this type of statistical

information?

a. Crude mortality

b. Relative risk

c. Prevalence

d. Proportional mortality

d. Proportional mortality

What statistic is used to answer the question, "How likely is it that I will die from this disease?"

a. Case-fatality rate

b. Specific mortality rate

c. Relative risk

d. Incidence

a. Case-fatality rate

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics

to understand population health. The PHN is comparing the incidence of childhood

asthma in a population exposed to a certain air pollutant with the incidence in a

population not exposed to that pollutant to determine relative risk. The PHN asks the

student to select the statistic, which supports that the risk for asthma is greater in the

exposed population. What is the correct answer?

a. <1.0

b. 0.05

c. 1.0

d. >1.0

d. >1.0

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics

to understand population health. The PHN asks the nursing student to develop some

questions for a survey about smoking behaviour. Which question would be best at

eliciting information on period prevalence?

a. "Do you currently smoke?"

b. "Have you smoked within the last six months?"

c. "Have you ever smoked?"

d. "At what age did you start smoking?"

b. "Have you smoked within the last six months?"

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics

to understand population health. The nursing student wants to administer a survey about

smoking behaviours to students in various grade levels within the school district to

identify the best grade to initiate health education. A follow-up survey will be

administered to assess the effectiveness of the educational program. What type of

research design would be best at providing the epidemiological information needed in

this scenario?

a. Cross-sectional study

b. Cohort design

c. Randomized control trial

d. Case-control methodology

a. Cross-sectional study

A public health nurse (PHN) is explaining to a nursing student how to use health statistics

to understand population health. The PHN asks the nursing student how participant

privacy will be managed in the study. What strategy presented by the student would be

best at meeting this ethical concern?

a. Data will be used in a confidential manner

b. The survey will be anonymous

c. The participants will sign a consent form

d. Ethics approval will be sought

b. The survey will be anonymous

A nurse in a large urban centre is working to provide prophylactic agents to exposed

vulnerable hosts. What action is the best example of this goal?

a. Providing varicella-zoster immune globin (VZIG) to appropriate children after a classmate is diagnosed with chickenpox

b. Administering human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine to girls in grade 6

c. Routinely immunizing 1-year-old children for measles, mumps, and rubella

d. Tuberculosis (TB) testing exposed students at a high school after a student is diagnosed with TB

a. Providing varicella-zoster immune globin (VZIG) to appropriate children after a classmate is diagnosed with chickenpox

The public health nurses (PHNs) are busy responding to seasonal influenza in a

community of approximately 75 000 people. An assisted living facility has an increased

number of influenza cases among the residents. A nurse is doing an inservice with the

nursing staff at the facility about the transmission of the influenza virus. Which is an

example of direct transmission?

a. Inhaling a droplet from a sneeze

b. Shaking a contaminated hand

c. Drinking tainted water

d. Touching a contaminated doorknob

b. Shaking a contaminated hand

The public health nurses (PHNs) are busy responding to seasonal influenza in a

community of approximately 75 000 people. An assisted living facility has an increased

number of influenza cases among the residents.The PHNs are trying to protect the

residents from the flu. What is an example of a primary prevention initiative?

a. Increasing assessments of the ill to identify complications early

b. Screening individuals for signs of influenza

c. Instructing individuals to sneeze into one's arm

d. Administering Tamiflu to ill residents

c. Instructing individuals to sneeze into one's arm

The public health nurses (PHNs) are busy responding to seasonal influenza in a

community of approximately 75 000 people. An assisted living facility has an increased

number of influenza cases among the residents. Family members of the residents have

been following FluWatch on the Public Health Agency of Canada web page. What type of

reporting is FluWatch?

a. Statistics Canada information

b. Surveillance data

c. Health Reports

d. Reportable disease

b. Surveillance data

What statement best describes a cohort study?

a. It focuses on a group of people exposed to a particular health problem or potential stressor over time

b. The researcher manipulates some of the variables in order to ascertain the effect of the manipulation

c. The individuals in the group with the disease are matched with individuals who are similar in some characteristics (e.g., age, gender) but who have not manifested the disease in question

d. Selected variables within a specific population are studied to look for evidence of association and causality

a. It focuses on a group of people exposed to a particular health problem or potential stressor over time

What is an example of tertiary prevention of a communicable disease?

a. Observing clients taking tuberculosis medication

b. Demonstrating vaccine efficacy rates

c. Encouraging frequent handwashing during flu season

d. Immunizing students during a meningitis outbreak

a. Observing clients taking tuberculosis medication

What agency in Canada is currenlty responsible for gathering surveillance data on

reportable diseases?

a. Health Canada

b. Statistics Canada

c. Canadian Institutes of Health Information (CIHI)

d. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

d. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

A nurse is concerned about a recent outbreak of measles in a group of migrant workers. How

would the nurse explain the concept of incidence to a new staff member?

a. The rate at which new cases occur in a population during a specified period

b. A measurement of disease frequency

c. Occurs frequently and with predicted regularity

d. The proportion of a population that is affected by the disease at a specific time

a. The rate at which new cases occur in a population during a specified period

Which epidemiological model best allows a nurse to visualize the relationships between various

determinants of health?

a. Causation criteria

b. Epidemiological triangle

c. Web of causation

d. Venn diagram

c. Web of causation

What is the purpose of epidemiology?

a. The study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states in specified populations

b. To provide statistics to direct health care funding to the appropriate cause

c. To predict and control challenges to population health

d. An area of medicine that deals with the study of the causes of disease in populations

c. To predict and control challenges to population health

A nurse wants to know the current rate of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection in

women aged 25 years as indicated by abnormal Pap smears. Which type of research

design would be best to answer this question?

a. Manipulation methodology

b. Cross-sectional

c. Prospective cohort

d. Randomized controlled

b. Cross-sectional

What type of research design was used in the Framingham Heart Study?

a. Case series

b. Cohort

c. Cross-sectional

d. Case-control

b. Cohort

What term is used to answer the question "how bad is it?" and to describe the effect of a

given disease?

a. Survival rate

b. Incidence rate

c. Prevalence rate

d. Mortality rate

a. Survival rate

Which of the statements below is true of the epidemiologic model

a. The classic epidemiologic model contains four elements: The agent, host, environment, and vector

b. The vector is the contagious or non-contagious force that can begin or prolong a health problem

c. The host is the human being in which the disease occurs

d. The agent is a factor that moves between the host and environment

c. The host is the human being in which the disease occurs

Which of the following is included in the most commonly cited criteria for causation?

a. Specificity

b. Sensitivity

c. Qualitative replication

d. Strength of screening

a. Specificity

Which of the following terms is used to compare the number of deaths from a specific cause within the entire population?

a. Specific mortality rate

b. Infant death date

c. Crude mortality rate

d. Relative death rate

c. Crude mortality rate

Why are Aboriginal people in Canada a vulnerable population?

a. More likely to take health for granted

b. Live north of the 60th parallel

c. More likely to have adverse health outcomes

d. Live in a sensitive physical environment

c. More likely to have adverse health outcomes

What was the purpose of the Northwest Coast tribes' traditional potlatch?

a. Celebration marking the transition from boyhood to manhood

b. The post-hunt community meal

c. Ceremonial welcoming of a new life into the tribe

d. Method of redistributing resources

d. Method of redistributing resources

What does it mean to be a status Indian?

a. Consider one's ethnic status to be Inuit

b. Recognized Indian under the federal Indian Act and has a treaty number

c. Has mixed heritage because one parent was Aboriginal and the other non- Aboriginal

d. Culturally an Indian, but the individual's tribe did not sign a treaty

b. Recognized Indian under the federal Indian Act and has a treaty number

What was the purpose of establishing First Nations health authorities?

a. Force the provincial governments to give up control of First Nations health care

b. Allow regional health authorities to absorb First Nations health care

c. Ensure the federal government would always provide First Nations health care

d. Prepare for the transfer of control of health services to First Nations

d. Prepare for the transfer of control of health services to First Nations

What disease is currently epidemic among First Nations people?

a. Breast cancer

b. Trauma

c. Diabetes

d. Smallpox

c. Diabetes

What would a nurse working in a First Nations community be prepared to do?

a. Be an independent care provider needing few networks or contacts

b. Work to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

c. Work with preventable conditions such as typhoid

d. Combat the effects of a long life expectancy among seniors

b. Work to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

What was the purpose of the White Paper in 1969?

a. To recognize the Métis Nation of Canada

b. To set up the current reserve system

c. To abolish treaties and the Indian Act

d. To allow women who married non-Aboriginals to apply for status

c. To abolish treaties and the Indian Act

A nurse is working as a program planner for the federal department responsible for

managing the reserves and treaty Indians. What agency does the nurse work for?

a. Public Health Agency of Canada

b. Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development

c. First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB)

d. Health Canada

b. Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development

Mrs. Crowfoot attended a residential school in northern Alberta in the 1960s.

What was she likely to have experienced during this time?

a. Regular visits from her parents

b. Traditional language classes

c. High-quality education

d. Hunger

d. Hunger

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern

community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. Which of the

following intergenerational issues is Spottenfawn most likely to have experienced?

a. Appropriate use of prescription medications

b. Loss of parenting skills

c. Ability to take care of nutritional needs

d. Smaller social support networks

b. Loss of parenting skills

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern

community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. Spottedfawn lives

with her extended family of 10 in a small house. The adults in the home are all female.

What health challenge is she most likely trying to manage?

a. Obesity

b. Breast cancer

c. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

d. Respiratory tract infection

a. Obesity

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern

community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. A nurse is working

with Spottedfawn. How can the nurse enhance Spottedfawn's experience with the

health care system?

a. Affirming the client's personal and cultural identity

b. Understanding the community's oral history

c. Being informed of the values and norms of the community

d. Using expert nursing knowledge to select appropriate resources for the client

a. Affirming the client's personal and cultural identity

A nurse is planning a presentation on diet and diabetes to a First Nations community.

What dissemination strategy would be most culturally appropriate?

a. Incorporate one's own experiential knowledge into the information session

b. Have all pamphlets translated into the local language

c. Provide the statistics for diabetes in First Nations communities

d. Use family and community networks to share information

d. Use family and community networks to share information

Mathew is a nurse working in a remote First Nations community. The client is using

traditional medicine to treat a wound. Mathew is experiencing moral distress because

he believes that a Western therapy is required to treat the wound. How should Mathew

resolve his moral distress?

a. Ask another nurse to take on this client so that Mathew does not have to compromise his standards of practice

b. Contact the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada for guidance

c. Transfer care to a Shaman or herbalist in keeping with the client's belief system

d. Tell the client that Western medicine is needed because the wound is not

healing with the traditional approach

b. Contact the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada for guidance

Which of the following statements is true of health care delivery and Aboriginal people?

a. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people the same way they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

b. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Metis people the same way they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

c. Health care services are delivered to Inuit and Metis people in a different way than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

d. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people in a different way than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

d. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people in a different way than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

Which of the following represents a linguistic and cultural grouping of Aboriginal people?

a. Eastern Subarctic

b. Southern Artic

c. Western Woodlands

d. Northeast Atlantic

a. Eastern Subarctic

Which of the following statements is true of the way of life of Aboriginal people before colonization?

a. Childcare and education were the responsibility of the women

b. Elders provided for the community

c. Sharing of resources was expected

d. Transgression was dealt with by the provincial leader

c. Sharing of resources was expected

Which of the following are examples of diseases that Europeans brought to Canada?

a. Heart disease, tuberculosis, and cancer

b. Smallpox, tuberculosis, and measles

c. Hypertension, rubella, and mumps

d. Syphilis, cancer, and measles

b. Smallpox, tuberculosis, and measles

Why were Aboriginal people relegated to living on reserves?

a. Because they wanted to live together with people who understood their culture and language

b. Because they did not trust the European settlers and did not want to live with them

c. Because Britain developed the treaty method to claim land that the Aboriginal people occupied

d. Because they decided the European settlers might come want to live close by to experience Aboriginal culture

c. Because Britain developed the treaty method to claim land that the Aboriginal people occupied

What was the purpose of residential schools?

a. To promote and preserve Aboriginal culture and heritage

b. To provide Aboriginal children with a more comfortable living space

c. To ensure Aboriginal children had acquired immunity to diseases

d. To assimilate Aboriginal children into the general population

d. To assimilate Aboriginal children into the general population

Which of the following statements is true of Inuit people?

a. They are treated in the same manner as registered Indians by the federal government

b. They are treated differently than status Indians by the federal government

c. They are treated in the same manner as non-status Indians by the federal government

d. They are treated in the same manner as Metis by the federal government

a. They are treated in the same manner as registered Indians by the federal government

Which of the following statements is true of Aboriginal people in Canada?

a. Metis make up 53% of Aboriginal people

b. First Nations make up 61% of Aboriginal people

c. Inuit make up 15% of Aboriginal people

d. First Nations make up 85% of Aboriginal people

b. First Nations make up 61% of Aboriginal people

Which province/territory has the highest proportion of Aboriginal people in comparison

to the total population?

a. British Columbia

b. Manitoba

c. Yukon

d. Nunavut

d. Nunavut

The rate of tuberculosis is how many times higher in the Aboriginal population than in

the non-Aboriginal population?

a. 10 times higher

b. 4 times higher

c. 6 times higher

d. 12 times higher

c. 6 times higher

Why is healthy child development an important health indicator for Aboriginal

populations?

a. Because the infant morbidity rate is three times higher than non-Aboriginal populations

b. Because one third of the Aboriginal population are classified as children

c. Because there is enough food for all of the Aboriginal children

d. Because the high immunization rates are a strength of Aboriginal communities

b. Because one third of the Aboriginal population are classified as children

What is the most common disease that can be attributed to modifiable environmental factors?

a. HIV

b. Diarrhea

c. Upper respiratory infections

d. Myocardial Infarction

b. Diarrhea

What percentage of deaths can be attributed to environmental causes?

a. 46%

b. 23%

c. 38%

d. 12%

b. 23%

Which Canadian document was the first to link the environment to health?

a. Ottawa Charter

b. The Report of the Walkerton Inquiry

c. A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians

d. Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada

c. A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians

Using the DPSEEA Framework, what is a driving force that can influence the state of the environment?

a. Poverty

b. Water quality and supply

c. Air pollution

d. Public policy

a. Poverty

At what level in the DPSEEA Framework are community health nurses involved?

a. Exposure and effects

b. State of the environment

c. Pressures

d. Driving forces

a. Exposure and effects

Environmental hazards that impact health can exist in the home, workplace, and neighbourhood. What is an example of a hazard in the neighbourhood that can impact health?

a. Working in a car assembly plant

b. Winter driving

c. Use of Lysol spray in the bathroom

d. Substandard housing

b. Winter driving

What is an example of pressure in the DPSEEA framework?

a. Poverty

b. Overcrowding

c. Air pollution

d. Greenhouse gases

d. Greenhouse gases

Mr. Chagnon works in a coal mine. What type of environmental factor will most likely influence his health?

a. Ergonomic

b. Chemical

c. Biological

d. Physical

b. Chemical

Mr. Salle works in a plant producing solvent. How might he be exposed to

environmental hazards?

a. Absorption

b. Penetration

c. Ingestion

d. Inhalation

a. Absorption

What is an example of the first line of defence to control exposure to environmental hazards?

a. Changing jobs

b. Respirators

c. Limiting repetitive motion

d. Ventilation systems

d. Ventilation systems

What is used to show the relationship between the amount of exposure to an agent and

the elicited response in the population?

a. Susceptibility

b. Dose-related histogram

c. DPSEEA framework

d. Epidemiology

d. Epidemiology

What is the purpose of an environmental health assessment?

a. Determine the level of exposure

b. Determine a possible link between an environmental exposure and health

c. Discover the relationship between the dose of the environmental agent and the

response

d. Identify toxins in the environment

b. Determine a possible link between an environmental exposure and health

The federal government reports on what environmental indicator?

a. Ultraviolet (UV) index

b. Population density

c. Ozone levels

d. Fluoride levels in water

c. Ozone levels

A tire dump is burning upwind from a small community. An environmental risk

assessment is done. What information will this provide?

a. Who in the community is at greatest risk

b. The financial cost of the exposure

c. Current information for the community

d. The level of exposure that will impact health

d. The level of exposure that will impact health

What is an example of federal environmental legislation?

a. Food and Drug Act

b. Environmental Protection Act

c. Occupational Health and Safety Act

d. Clean Air Act

a. Food and Drug Act

Where would an occupational health nurse work?

a. Hockey arena

b. Community centre

c. Sawmill

d. Elementary school

c. Sawmill

What organization has a national voice influencing health and safety regulations across Canada?

a. Worksafe

b. Labour Ministry

c. Canadian Nurses Association

d. Occupational Health Nursing Association

d. Occupational Health Nursing Association

A nurse who is assessing hazard control would consider which to be an administrative control?

a. Wearing gloves when working with biological hazards

b. Rotating workers for two-hour periods through a high heat area

c. Replacing the dangerous cleaning solution with a safe product

d. Enclosing workers in a noise-free control room

b. Rotating workers for two-hour periods through a high heat area

What is an occupational health nurse?

a. A nurse with an occupational health nursing certificate through the Canadian Nurses Association

b. A nurse certified through the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses

c. A nurse with additional training in health and safety

d. A nurse registered with the Canadian Occupational Nurses Association

c. A nurse with additional training in health and safety

Mr. Chevez and Mr. Ferris work in a fertilizer plant. What type of environmental factor

may have an influence on their health?

a. Occupational

b. Physical

c. Inhalation

d. Chemical

d. Chemical

Mr. Chevez and Mr. Ferris work in a fertilizer plant. Despite similar exposure, Mr. Chevez

develops a respiratory condition. What would account for Mr. Ferris remaining healthy?

a. Mr. Ferris is resistant

b. Mr. Chevez had a pre-existing health condition

c. Mr. Ferris had less exposure

d. Mr. Chevez is hypo-susceptible

a. Mr. Ferris is resistant

Mr. Chevez and Mr. Ferris work in a fertilizer plant. What type of nurse would work with the employees of the fertilizer plant?

a. Public health nurse

b. Occupational health nurse

c. Hazard control nurse

d. Community health nurse

b. Occupational health nurse

Mr. Chevez and Mr. Ferris work in a fertilizer plant. The nurse institutes hazard controls at the plant. What would be the first line of defence?

a. Developing a policy to limit exposure

b. Changing jobs within the plant

c. Improving ventilation

d. Using personal respirators

c. Improving ventilation

What term is best used to describe conditions that occur from exposures that are unique

to the workplace and unlikely to occur in concentrated form in daily life?

a. Occupational diseases

b. Environmental health

c. Environmental factors

d. Workplace exposures

a. Occupational diseases

Jane is completing an environmental health assessment. She is collecting information

about Mrs. Jones's social activities. What type of information is Jane collecting?

a. Residential information

b. Occupational information

c. Environmental information

d. Recreation information

d. Recreation information

How many people in Canada are estimated to experience homelessness in a year?

a. 150 000

b. 30 000

c. 100 000

d. 200 000

d. 200 000

Which statement is true about homelessness in Canada?

a. More people in the Maritimes are homeless

b. Aboriginal people account for 20% of the homeless

c. One in 15 Canadians has either been homeless or come close to it

d. Rates are highest for unattached individuals in the 45 to 64 age group.

d. Rates are highest for unattached individuals in the 45 to 64 age group.

Poverty can be determined by many criteria. One criterion is, "any family that had to spend more than 70% of its income on food, clothing and shelter." What criterion of poverty is this?

a. Basic needs approach

b. Market basket measure

c. Highest attainable income measure

d. Low-income cut-off measure

d. Low-income cut-off measure