PNLE: CHN 1
1. Who is the Chairman of the Municipal
Health Board?
A. Municipal Health Officer
B. Any qualified physician
C. Public Health Nurse
D. Mayor
2. According to Margaret Shetland, the
philosophy of public health nursing is
based on which of the following?
A. The worth and dignity of man
B. Public health nursing as a specialized
field of nursing
C. Health and longevity as birthrights
D. The mandate of the state to protect the
birthrights of its citizens
3. Population-focused nursing practice
requires which of the following
processes?
A. Community organizing
B. Epidemiologic process
C. Nursing process
D. Community diagnosis
4. R.A. 7160 mandates devolution of basic
services from the national government to
local government units. Which of the
following is the major goal of devolution?
A. To allow greater autonomy to local
government units
B. To strengthen local government units
C. To make basic services more accessible
to the people
D. To empower the people and promote
their self-reliance
5. If the RHU needs additional midwife
items, you will submit the request for
additional midwife items for approval to the
A. District Health Office
B. Municipal Health Board
C. Provincial Health Office
D. Rural Health Unit
6. You are a new B.S.N. graduate. You want
to become a Public Health Nurse. Where will
you apply?
A. Rural Health Unit
B. Provincial Health Office
C. Department of Health
D. Regional Health Office
7. Which is the primary goal of community
health nursing?
A. To enhance the capacity of individuals,
families and communities to cope with their
health needs
B. To increase the productivity of the people
by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
C. To support and supplement the efforts of
the medical profession in the promotion of
health and prevention of illness
D. To contribute to national development
through promotion of family welfare,
focusing particularly on mothers and
children.
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8. When the nurse determines 11. Which step in community
whether resources were maximized organizing involves training of
in implementing Ligtas Tigdas, she is potential leaders in the community?
evaluating
A. Core group formation
A. Effectiveness
B. Community organization
B. Efficiency
C. Integration
C. Appropriateness
D. Community study
D. Adequacy
12. Which is an example of the school
9. “Public health services are given nurse’s health care provider functions?
free of charge.” Is this statement
A. Observing places in the school
true or false?
where pupils spend their free time
A. The statement may be true or
B. Taking remedial action on an
false, depending on the specific
accident hazard in the school
service required.
playground
B. The statement may be true or
C. Conducting random classroom
false, depending on policies of the
inspection during a measles epidemic
government concerned.
D. Requesting for BCG from the RHU
C. The statement is true; it is the
for school entrant immunization
responsibility of government to
provide basic services. 13. The public health nurse is the
supervisor of rural health midwives.
D. The statement is false; people pay
Which of the following is a supervisory
indirectly for public health services.
function of the public health nurse?
10. Which step in community
A. Formulating and implementing
organizing involves training of
training programs for midwives
potential leaders in the community?
B. Referring cases or patients to the
A. Core group formation
midwife
B. Community organization
C. Providing technical guidance to the
C. Integration midwife
D. Community study D. Providing nursing care to cases
referred by the midwife
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14. Which of the following is the mission
17. When the occupational health
of the Department of Health?
nurse employs ergonomic principles,
A. Ensure the accessibility and quality of she is performing which of her roles?
health care
A. Environmental manager
B. Improve the general health status of
B. Health care coordinator
the population
C. Health care provider
C. Health for all Filipinos
D. Health educator
D. Health in the hands of the Filipino
people by the year 2020 18. Which is true of primary facilities?
15. You are the public health nurse in a A. Their services are provided on an
municipality with a total population of out-patient basis.
about 20,000. There are 3 rural health
B. They are training facilities for health
midwives among the RHU personnel.
professionals.
How many more midwife items will the
RHU need? C. A community hospital is an example
of this level of health facilities.
A. The RHU does not need any more
midwife item. D. They are usually government-run.
B. 3 19. A business firm must employ an
occupational health nurse when it has
C. 2
at least how many employees?
D. 1
A. 21
16. R.A. 1054 is also known as the
B. 301
Occupational Health Act. Aside from
number of employees, what other factor C. 201
must be considered in determining the
occupational health privileges to which D. 101
the workers will be entitled? 20. Region IV Hospital is classified as
A. Location of the workplace in relation what level of facility?
to health facilities A. Intermediate
B. Type of occupation: agricultural, B. Primary
commercial, industrial
C. Tertiary
C. Sex and age composition of
employees D. Secondary

D. Classification of the business

enterprise based on net profit
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21. As an epidemiologist, the nurse
is responsible for reporting cases of
notifiable diseases. What law
mandates reporting of cases of
notifiable diseases?
A. Act 3573
B. R.A. 3753
C. R.A. 1082
D. R.A. 1054
22. Which level of health facility is
the usual point of entry of a client
into the health care delivery
system?
A. Primary
B. Tertiary
C. Intermediate
D. Secondary
23. 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. Municipal Health Officer
B. Any of these health professionals
C. Rural Health Midwife
D. Public Health Nurse
24. According to Freeman and
Heinrich, community health nursing is
a developmental service. Which of the
following best illustrates this
statement?
A. Health education and community
organizing are necessary in providing
community health services.
B. Community health nursing is
intended primarily for health
promotion and prevention and
treatment of disease.
C. The community health nurse
continuously develops himself
personally and professionally.
D. The goal of community health
nursing is to provide nursing services
to people in their own places of
residence.
25. CHN is a community-based
practice. Which best explains this
statement?
A. Priority setting is based on the
magnitude of the health problems
identified.
B. The service is provided in the
natural environment of people.
C. The services are based on the
available resources within the
community.
D. nurse has to conduct community
diagnosis to determine nursing needs
and problems.
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26. According to C.E.Winslow, which
of the following is the goal of Public
Health?
A. For people to have access to basic
health services
B. For promotion of health and
prevention of disease
C. For people to attain their
birthrights of health and longevity
D. For people to be organized in
their health efforts
27. Which disease was declared
through Presidential Proclamation
No. 4 as a target for eradication in
the Philippines?
A. Neonatal tetanus
B. Poliomyelitis
C. Rabies
D. Measles
28. We say that a Filipino has
attained longevity when he is able to
reach the average lifespan of
Filipinos. What other statistic may
be used to determine attainment of
longevity?
A. Case fatality rate
B. Proportionate mortality rate
C. Swaroop’s index
D. Age-specific mortality rate
29. A garment factory does not
have an occupational nurse. Who
shall provide the occupational
health needs of the factory
workers?
A. Public health nurse of the RHU
of their municipality
B. Occupational health nurse at the
Provincial Health Office
C. Physician employed by the
factory
D. Rural sanitary inspector of the
RHU of their municipality
30. 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. Scatter diagram
B. Pie
C. Line
D. Bar