PRACTICE SESSIONS Choices:  B.

Organizations that may have different

CHN A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 functions form the community’s sub-system.
B. 2, 3 and 4 C. The bases of organizations are the
C. 3 and 4 interactions, patterns and communication that
SAS 1 D. 2 and 4 transpire in the community.
D. Organizations are made mainly to maintain
1. The PHN's responsibility of care is the: health among people
A. Client 10. A healthy city is one that: (select all that
B. Family apply) 
C. Community A. Maintains the community’s sanitation 8. It is part of the social system and
D. All of these B. Supplies health care needs considered of central importance because of
C. Doles out the need of the people in the its role in health promotion and maintenance
2. The focus of the PHN’s activities is: community and risk reduction:  
A. Primary Prevention  D. Provides recreational activities for the A. Family
B. Curative people B. Economic
C. Rehabilitative C. Educational
D. All of these D. Health
SAS 2
3. Greatest benefit requires coordination
among:   9. To determine the root cause of deaths in the
1. It represents the core that makes up the community, the PHN must assess the: 
A. health care disciplines community: 
B. other disciplines A. Location of the barangay
A. People B. Socio-economic status of the community
C. community B. Sub-systems
D. all of these C. Health care system
C. Health D. Political system
D. Social system
4.Which of the following describes a rural
community?   2. It is the patterned series of 10. The primary group in a society: 
A.  Highly dense in population interrelationships existing between individuals, A. Client
B. People are well- knit and having high groups, and institutions and forming a B. Family
degree of group feeling. coherent whole.  C. Community
C. Complex interpersonal relationship A. Community D. Population group
D. Non-agricultural occupation. B. Sub-systems
C. Health
SAS 3
5. In order to promote optimum use of D. Social system
resources, the PHN must promote: 
A. Best practices that are products of studies. 3. A sub-system component that affects health 1. Which of the following best describes the
B. Best practices are the applied by the due lack of understanding is:  relationship of community to health? 
community. A. Economic A. If there are more businesses and
C. Health practices based from Community B. Educational commercial investments in the community, all
Survey C. Communication positive health outcomes will be expected.
D. Community health practice that is D. Political B. If community members actively join civic
acceptable. activities, people in the community will have
4. A sub-system that provides leisure to the strong physical health.
people of the community: C. Presence of recreational areas will affect
6. These are the tools necessary to determine A. Fire and Safety physical and mental health.
the needs of the community as a whole:   B. Communication D. Lesser resources protect the environmental
A. Blood pressure apparatus C. Economics health.
B. Thermometer D. Recreation
C. Vital statistics
D. Weighing scale 2. As partners in health, community must: 
5. A sub-system component that protects the A. Consume the services provided
people and secure their psychological and B. Avail health services
7. It is a type of community that has high physical safety:  C. Influence others
density of people and has both agriculture and A. Fire and Safety D. Work hand in hand with the community
manufacturing industry:   B. Communication health workers
A. Rural C. Economics
B. Urban D. Recreation
C. Rurban 3. What is the role of health in the community?
(select all that apply)  
6. What is true to an individual in a social A. Social development
8. Which among the following describes an system? (select all that apply)   B. Economic development
urban community? (select all that apply) A. He/she has one role to fulfill. C. Projects progress or regress
A. agricultural occupation B. He/she may have several roles D. Policy implementation
B. complex interpersonal social relations simultaneously.
C. primary group relation C. He/she can be affected by the social
D. not well- knit system components. 4. In order to improve community services,
D. He/she may serve as a part of several people in the community must: 
social systems. A. Influence others to avail the services
9. A healthy community: 1. have a feeling of B. Provide feedback
superiority;  2. recognizes and respects other C. Efficiently use services
subgroups;  3. feels empowered and control 7. This statement is true to the organizations D. Report any health-related concern
over matters that affect the community as a within the social system:  
whole; 4. participate in decision making in A. Organizations in the social systems are
community matters  formal. 5. People in the community shows
cooperation when they:  are not feeling well. This kind of attitude is
A. actively join in the community’s activities highly influence by what culture: (select all
B. regard community’s programs essential in that apply)  1. Which among the statements below
their growth A. Bahala na describes span of control as an organizing
C. take part in the community’s goals B. Faith and religiosity principle?  
D. work towards to the community’s vision C. Ningas kugon A. This is called specialization which
D. Malasakit delineates work according to specific
programs or to client groups.
6. Community in terms of health acts as center B. It refers to conscious activity of assembling
of: (select all that apply)  4. Filipino Nurses are known for their and synchronizing differentiated work efforts
A. Disease prevention resilience. Resiliency is shown by:  so that they function harmoniously in the
B. Health promotion A. Their caring attitude to the client attainment of organization objectives.
C. Critical care B. Hardworking even underpaid C. This principle means that an employee
D. Continuity of care C. Staying with client should be responsible to, and receive orders
D. Doing what is right even no one sees you from, only one superior
D. This principle means “the number of
7. Hospital becomes the substitute of the subordinates reporting directly to a superior”.
community for: 5. One of the challenges among PHNs is the
A. Health promotion geographical location of the community they
B. Disease prevention serve. Nonetheless, they work willingly with 2. Which among the following are reasons
C. Primary care the people. This attitude is highly related to why nurse managers should evaluate their
D. Restoration of health what Filipino culture?  staff? (select all that apply) 
A. Malasakit A. determine job competence
B. Family oriented B. enhance staff development
8. Which among the following is NOT a C. Joy and humour C. aid the employee’s coaching and
responsibility of the hospital?  D. Hard work and industriousness counselling
A. health restoration D. determine training and developmental
B. disease treatment needs of nurses
C. heath promotion 6. Filipinos express their minds through arts: 
D. community improvement A. Pagkamalikhain
B. Malasakit 3. These are example of grave offense: (select
C. Joy and humour all that apply) 
9.Which is true in community organizing in D. Hospitality A. falsification of official documents
relation to community development?   B. physical and mental incapacity or disability
A. Improving infrastructures to encourage due to sickness
physical activities. 7. Most of the Filipino families are extended C. engaging directly and indirectly in partisan
B. It involves people participation in type. This best explains by what culture:  political activities
community activities. A. Family oriented D. frequent unauthorized absences or
C. Building people’s capability to purchase B. Joy and humour tardiness
needs. C. Malasakit
D. Creation of job opportunities D. Hospitality
4. Function of Management: Designing the
organization 
10. The goal of improving the infrastructures 8. Shiela slipped on the stage. However, she A. Planning
of the community:  exclaimed loudly “Kaya ninyo ‘yon?” (Can you B. Organizing
A. To increase household income. do it?) The audience clapped their hands for C. Staffing
B. To improve sense of safety and security her gesture. This kind of culture is reflected D. Leading
C. To strengthen relationships among by:  E. Controlling
residents to facilitate changes. A. Creativity
D. To stabilize family income. B. Hard work
C. Joy and humour 5. Function of Management: Motivating people
D. Faith to do their share 
SAS 4 A. Planning
B. Organizing
9. Filipinos are known for their piyestas
1. Which among the following describes (feasts).  Each place in the Philippines C. Staffing
culture? (select all that apply) D. Leading
celebrates their town feasts in relation to their
A. Culture is shared beliefs, values and life patrons. Moreover, even strangers visiting E. Controlling
ways. their places are being fed and warmly
B. It predicts social patterns among group of accepted. This culture is known as:  6. Function of Management: Setting the
people. A. Family oriented standards 
C. It can be shared life experiences. B. Religiosity A. Planning
D. Culture directs behavior and moral-ethical C. Hospitality B. Organizing
decisions. D. Malasakit C. Staffing
D. Leading
2. Obesity among Filipinos is common and 10. Which among the following poses great E. Controlling
highly attributed to: (select all that apply)   danger to the PHN?
A. Hospitality A. Location is geographical far from the main 7. Function of Management: Getting and
B. Faith and religiosity health center developing people for the unit
C. Hardwork and industriousness B. Areas are infested with insects A. Planning
D. Malasakit C. Place is visited by leftists B. Organizing
Other:  D. Area is being claimed by several rebels C. Staffing
D. Leading
3. Filipinos tend delay to see a doctor if they SAS 5 E. Controlling
8. Pursuit of private business  B. identify signs and symptoms indicative of C. Health and illness patterns
A. Grave offense improvement or worsening of condition D. Political or leadership patterns
B. Less grave offense C. refer the member to appropriate health
C. Light offense facility or health worker on time
3. The following are indicative of the social
D. give alternative treatment even without
status of the community: (select all that apply) 
health workers’ advise
9. Refusal to render overtime  A. Communication network
A. Grave offense B. Poverty income level
B. Less grave offense 7. Outcome:  The family is able to maintain an C. Educational level
C. Light offense environment conductive to good health and D. Housing conditions
personal development.  
A. provide physical and social environment 4. These variables help determine the delivery
10. Falsification of documents    that promotes the members’ health and well- of health services: (select all that apply)
A. Grave offense being A. Communication network
B. Less grave offense B. identify factors that can adversely affect the B. Manpower population ratio
C. Light offense members’ health and well-being C. Categories of health services available
C. mitigate the effects of non-modifiable D. Power structures in the community
factors
SAS 6
D. modify/eliminate/control the factors that
5. These are variables that may break up
adversely impact on the members’ health and
1. PHN Grace is designing the program people into groups within the community: 
well-being
evaluation. She included the five dimensions. A. Social indicators
To address the dimensions, Grace must ask B. Economic indicators
the following questions, EXCEPT : 8. Outcome: The family is able to maintain C. Environmental indicators
A. What indicators should be used? reciprocal relationship with the community and D. Cultural indicators
B. What should be evaluated?C. What are the health institutions. The family is able to:  
program objectives? A. participate in health and health related 6. The following is NOT an environmental
D. What are the responses of the people in activities in the community indicator: 
the community to the program? B. share resources with other members of the A. Waste disposal
community B. Water supply
2. The program evaluated was found to be C. provide feedback to health C. Presence of air/water/land pollution
effective. What should be the personnel/institutions regarding health D. Types of industry present
recommendations? policies, programs, projects and activities
A. The program must be terminated. D. join community activities upon request 7. This variable can indicate the poverty that
B. The program must be modified. exist and may reflect on health perception and
C. The lesson learned will serve as a guide in utilization pattern of the community: 
modifying the program. 9. The following items 9- 10 (59-60), test your
A. Communication network
D. The program can be applied to another knowledge in formulating criteria based from B. Poverty income level
group with same characteristics. the objective. Select all possible criteria in C. Educational level
relation to the objective. 9. Objective: After
D. Housing conditions
one month, the family will be able to take care
3. Evaluators sometimes faced poor quality of of the malnourished child. The family will be
available data. In order to minimized if not able to:   8. This social indicator is necessary for
prevented, the PHN must:  disseminating health information or facilitating
A. allocate resources to meet the nutritional
A. Tools should be filed-tested referral of clients to the healthcare system: 
needs of the malnourished member
B. Data collectors should be trained A. Communication network
B. identify readily available and affordable
C. Data collection must be filed tested B. Transportation system
nutritious food for the child
D. Poor quality data must be addressed during C. feed the child based on readily available C. Educational level
the program planning stage. D. All of the above
D. bring the child to the RHU for weight
monitoring regularly
4. An indicator that reflects what is to be 9. This is a vital element in achieving the goal
achieved:  of high level wellness among the people: 
A. Valid 10. Objective: During home visit, Mr. Jaime A. Demographic variables
B. Reliable will be able to collect a good sputum sample B. Socio-economic and cultural variable
C. Objective for microscopy. Mr. Jaime collects the sputum C. Health and illness patterns
D. Specific specimen as instructed:  D. Political or leadership patterns
A. breathes air deeply
B. coughs strongly at the height of inspiration 10. The following describes the political or
5. Which among the following objective is C. spits the sputum into sterile container leadership pattern of the community: (select
properly constructed?  D. submit the sterile container uncovered all that apply) 
A. Eighty-five percent (85%) of leprosy A. Proportion of active earners in the
patients will complete the multi-drug therapy SAS 7 community
(MDT). B. Attitudes of the people towards authority
B. After two sessions, Mr. S will be able to C. Existing manpower development
check his blood sugar accurately. 1. The health status of the community is a D. Practices in settling issues
C. Mr. S will wash his hands before pricking product of the various interacting elements
his finger for blood extraction, such as:
D. Mr. S’s family will accompany him to A. Population SAS 8
diabetes clinic. B. Physical and topographical characteristics
C. Socio-economic and cultural factors 1. The nurse is about to prepare a data
D. Power structure within the community presentation. Knowing there are only three
6. Outcome: The family is able to provide categories and she wanted to show the
nursing care to the sick member of the family. 2. This shows the size, composition and breakdown, she will likely use what type of
The family is able to:   geographical distribution of the population: graph? 
A. correctly perform appropriate interventions A. Demographic variables A. Bar graph
in caring for the sick member of the family B. Socio-economic and cultural variable B. Pie chart
C. Scattered diagram
D. Histogram SAS 10

Situation: After collating the data in the

community diagnosis, the nurse learned that
one of the community health problems is that
70% of the school-age children have 1. Natural increase (2019) Answer:  
ascariasis. The mothers recognize this and 297,000/297000
are willing to have their children undergo
deworming. Majority of the mothers are so 2. Rate of natural increase (2019) Answer: 
concerned that they asked the nurse about its 124.74 1. What is the Crude Birth Rate?   
cause and ways on how to prevent it.  182.11
  3. Absolute increase per year (2018 and
2. What is the nature of the problem?  2019) Answer:  2. Measure the possibility in the decrease of
A. Health status 1,214,000/1214000 the population per 1000 
B. Health resources 23.03
C. Health related 4. Relative increase Answer:  
1.04 3. What is the index killing power of dengue
3. The score to be given if the nature of the cases? 
problem is a health resource is:  5. Sex composition Answer:  1.28
A. 3 75.39/75.38949
B. 2 4. What is the risk of exposure of the
C. 1 6. It represents the number of males for every population to dengue?  
D. 0 100 of females in the population. 54.95
A. Natural increase
4. The perception  and readiness of the B. Rate of natural increase 5. What is the index of the obstetrical care
population to act to the problem:  C. Absolute increase per year needed and received by women in a
A. Magnitude of the problem D. Maternal mortality rate community? 
B. Modifiability of the problem E. Relative increase 2.5
C. Preventive potential F. Sex ratio
D. Social concern G. Infant mortality rate 6. Levels of Prevention of Health Problems:
Other:  Antibiotic treatment before surgery 
5. Among the criteria in priority setting, this A. Primary
criterion weighs the highest:  B. Secondary
A. Nature of the problem 7. Difference between two census counts C. Tertiary
B. Magnitude of the problem expressed in percent relative to the population
C. Modifiability of the problem size made during an earlier census.  7. Levels of Prevention of Health Problems:
D. Preventive potential A. Natural increase Community quarantine
E. Social concern B. Rate of natural increase A. Primary
C. Absolute increase per year B. Secondary
6. Oral health  D. Maternal mortality rate C. Tertiary
A. Environmental E. Relative increase
B. Psychosocial F. Sex ratio 8. Levels of Prevention of Health Problems:
C. Physiological G. Infant mortality rate Case finding
D. Health related A. Primary
8. Crude Birth Rate – Crude Death Rate  B. Secondary
7. Workplace A. Natural increase C. Tertiary
A. Environmental B. Rate of natural increase
B. Psychosocial C. Absolute increase per year 9. Levels of Prevention of Health Problems:
C. Physiological D. Maternal mortality rate Workshops
D. Health related E. Relative increase A. Primary
F. Sex ratio B. Secondary
8. Neglect G. Infant mortality rate C. Tertiary
A. Environmental
B. Psychosocial 9. Number of births – number of deaths  10. Levels of Prevention of Health Problems:
C. Physiological A. Natural increase Art Therapy
D.Health related B. Rate of natural increase A. Primary
C. Absolute increase per year B. Secondary
9. Role change  D. Maternal mortality rate C. Tertiary
A. Environmental E. Relative increase
B. Psychosocial F. Sex ratio SAS 11
C. Physiological G. Infant mortality rate
D. Health related
10. Population size at a later time –
SITUATION: A group of researchers were
10. Sanitation  Population size at an earlier time, then , divide
recently assigned to Barangay Pugo to
A. Environmental it by the number of years between  later time
conduct Community Organizing Participatory
B. Psychosocial and earlier time 
Action Research (COPAR). It is very vital to
C. Physiological A. Natural increase
Public Health Nursing. It aims to transform the
D. Health related B. Rate of natural increase
voiceless poor people into dynamic, active
C. Absolute increase per year
and responsive community. Nurse Rashan is
SAS 9 D. Maternal mortality rate
one of the members of this group who aims to
E. Relative increase
develop a self-reliant community. 
F. Sex ratio
G. Infant mortality rate
1. In the Pre-entry phase of the COPAR affairs of the community organization? A. remote area
process, a preliminary social investigation is D. What is the overall impact of the project on B. resistant people
conducted to aid in the selection of the site. the community? C. more than 100-200 families
Nurse Rashan helped in identifying the E. None of these D. depressed community
community for COPAR. Which of the following
is not a criterion to be used when selecting an 7. Identify whether it is a Traditional research
area for COPAR?  approach or COPAR: Decision-making – SAS 13
A. Area must have no serious peace and order Bottom up  
problem A. Traditional Research Approach 1. Which among the following is included in
B. Must have a population of 100-200 families B. COPAR the Title Page? (select all that apply)
C. Economically not depressed A. Name of the authors
D. No similar groups holding the same 8. Identify whether it is a Traditional research B. Name of the adviser
program approach or COPAR: Methodology – C. Submission date
E. No strong resistance from the community Methodologies are determined by the D. Page
community 
2. In Pre-entry Phase, which of the following A. Traditional Research Approach
activities should be done in choosing the final B. COPAR 2. This page briefly explains what is the paper
community?  all about?
A. Determining the outcome of the program in 9. Identify whether it is a Traditional research A. Acknowledgement
the community B. Introduction
approach or COPAR: Emphasis – Nurse- C. Table of Contents
B. Developing programs with the community driven process  
C. Community decides to formalize A. Traditional Research Approach D. Title page
organization B. COPAR
D. Take note of political development 3. Briefly state names of mentors and other
E. Conducting formal interviews with 10.  Identify whether it is a Traditional people with significant contribution to the
community residents and key informants research study:
research approach or COPAR: Roles – Data A. Acknowledgement
analyst is the nurse   B. Introduction
3. As part of the Pre-entry phase of COPAR, A. Traditional Research Approach
which of the following implies that the potential B. COPAR C. Table of Contents
host family is not good to live-in?  D. Title page
A. House is strategically located in the SAS 12
community 4. It contains pictures and documents that are
B. Neighbours are hesitant to enter the house related to the study:
C. No member of the host family should be 1.Which among the following best describes A. Reference
moving out in the community community immersion program (CIP)? B. Appendices
D. Should not belong to elite/rich segment Untitled Question: C. Community profile
E. None of these A. CIP refers to hands-on experience in a D. Recommendations
community nearby.
4. Integration is establishing rapport with the B. It is a related learning experience program 5. Geographic identifiers include: (select all
people in continuing effort to imbibe which requires student nurses to live and work that apply)
community life which envelops the following in the community. A. Historical background
activities, except:  C. Student nurses implement public health B. Spot map
A. Living with the community programs. C. Vicinity map
B. Helping in simple household chores D. Student nurses assume the role of a public D. Organizational Chart
C. Seek out to converse with people where health nurse to a selected population.
they usually congregate 6. Who are included in determining the literacy
D. Adapt your own lifestyle in living with the 2.The main aim of conducting an immersion rate of a community:
community program to a remote area is: A. 8 years old and above
E. Joining conversations with the community A. For the students to learn B. 8 years old and below
members B. For the students to apply their basic skills C. 14 years old and below
C. Bring the health programs to people who D. None of the above
cannot access it
5. Nurse Natasha is in the Social Analysis 7. It is a record of names of authors cited in
D. To give to the people what they need
phase of COPAR if she is doing which of the the study
following activities?
3.Community Immersion program aims A. Reference
Setting up linkages and network referrals
student nurses to develop their: 1. B. Appendices
B. Training of CHO workers
Competency in basic nursing skills 2. C. Community profile
C. SALT (self-awareness leadership training)
Interpersonal skills 3. D. Recommendations
D. Implementation of livelihood projects
Understanding regarding their social
E. Conduct community diagnosis 8. The health profile of the community is
accountability 4. Leadership skills Choices:
A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 reflected by: (select all that apply)
6. Evaluation is a systematic, critical analysis A. Excreta Disposal
B. 1, 3 and 4
of the current state of the organization and/or B. Food storage
C. 2, 3 and 4
projects compared to desired or planned goals C. Infant feeding practices
D. 1, 2 and 4
or objectives. In evaluation, there are two D. Community Facilities and Resources
areas of evaluation, one of which is program-
4.Leadership and managerial skills are more
based evaluation. The following are the 9. Who are not included in computing the
likely being exercised during:
evaluation parameters for program-based, dependency rate of the community?
A. Community diagnosis
except:  A. 60 years old and above
B. Community program implementation
A. Were the goals and objectives of the B. 18 years old and below
C. Community assembly
program/project achieved? C. 14 years old and below
D. Meeting with the barangay officials
B. What strategies were implemented? What D. None of the above
worked? What did not?
5.Community Immersion Program is
C. What is the level of participation in the
conducted to areas describe below, EXCEPT:
10. Population density is computed by dividing
the total population to the:
A. Total lot area in cubic meter
B. Total lot area in square meter
C. Total community area in meters
D. Total number of houses

SAS 14

1. The husband is self-employed. It means

that:
A. He employed himself.
B. He is self-sufficient.
C. He is a freelancer.
D. He does not have work

2. The student nurse noticed that house is too

small for 12 persons. The mother mentioned
they sleep together inside. The family do not
have sanitary toilet. When asked how they
dispose their feces, the mother pointed to the
pile of plastic. The student nurse will record
that the:
A. Family has good ventilation.
B. Family is very poor.
C. Toilet facility is unsanitary.
D. None of these

3. Herbularyo is a person who is: (select all

that apply)
A. Known as witch doctors
B. Uses incantations or prayers when treating
a person who is sick
C. May use different plants in treating
D. May use holy oil, amulets or religious
objects during the treatment

4. Self-medication means that an individual

may use: (select all that apply)
A. Over-the-counter medicines without
prescription
B. Supplements as advertised
C. Treatment as advised by a family member
D. Maintenance medications as prescribed

5. The house of the family is made of light

materials including tarpaulin and sacks. The
house is:
A. Mixed type
B. Wood
C. Makeshift
D. Concrete