d.

To coordinate health services with other

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING socio – economic services in the community
PROCESS (pg. 17)
61. This type of community diagnoses aims
g. Situation: Community Diagnosis to obtain general information about the
community or a certain population
58. Community diagnosis as a process
involves _______________ group.

a. Step by step data gathering a. Comprehensive community diagnoses

b. Identification of the health problems of b. Problem oriented community diagnoses

the community
c. Rapid rural appraisal
c. A continuous learning experience for the
nurse and the community people d. None of the above

d. Continuous development of the 62. Demographic variables show the

community health programs following, except;

59. Community diagnosis as a profile a. Population size

involves ______
b. Population distribution
a. Data gathering, data collation and data
analysis c. Population control

b. To identify the resources available to the d. Population composition

community people
63. The following are examples of
c. To enable the nurse to set priorities for demographic data needed in the community
planning diagnosis, except:

d. To coordinate health services with other a. Patterns of immigration

socio – economic services in the community
b. Growth rate
60. Community diagnoses is done because
of the following reasons, except: c. Political groups identified

a. To have a clear picture of the problems of d. Total population

the community
f. For numbers 64 – 74. The following are
b. To identify the resources available to the socioeconomic data needed for community
community people diagnosis. Choose the category to which the
given examples belong to:
c. To enable the nurse to set priorities for
planning
a. Social indicators
b. Economic indicators
c. Environmental indicators
d. Cultural indicators
64. Light industry - B
65. Two – way radio - A
66. 67% are high school undergraduates - A
67. Covered basketball court - B
68. 3% practicing composting - C
69. Suob - D
70. Natural spring - C
71. Usog - D
72. Open pit privy - C
73. Peddicab driver - B
74. Banyon - D
75. Environmental indicators include
i. Physical characteristics
community
ii. Water supply
iii. Land ownership
iv. Transportation
v. Waste disposal
vi. Air, water and land pollution
a. All, except 1 and 2
b. All, except 2 and 3
c. All, except 3 and 4
d. All, except 4 and 5
76. Health illness pattern as an aspect of
the community diagnosis includes the
following, except:
a. Top five causes of mortality
b. Number of mothers dying due to
pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
c. Number of new cases of a disease
d. Top ten developmental issues
77. Health resources include
i. Budget allotment per household
ii. Community recreational facilities
iii. Health manpower available
iv. Health budget and expenditures
v. Categories of health services
available
vi. Geographic distribution of health
manpower
of the
a. All, except 1 and 2
b. All, except 2 and 3
c. All, except 3 and 4
d. All, except 4 and 5
78. There are three levels of data gathering
when doing community diagnosis. Which of
the following statements, when made by the
nurse, indicates an acceptable level of data
gathered in a certain population?
a. We will conduct a survey of 10%
households in Brgy. Sta. Lucia
b. I will interview 10% of the enlisted CHWs d. A piggery in the southern part does not
in Brgy. Sta Lucia practice proper excreta disposal

c. I will gather data from among 10% of the 82. The following are community
traditional healers identified in Brgy. Sta dimensions directly related to health,
Lucia. EXCEPT:

d. We will leave the questionnaire in 30% of a. Food and nutrition

the households for them to answer and pick
them up the b. Endemic disease

following day. c. Type of injuries

79. The following are instruments in data d. None of the above

gathering, EXCEPT:
83. Community health nursing problems
a. Biodata form may be categorized as the following,
EXCEPT:
b. Survey questionnaire
a. Health – related problems
c. Interview guide
b. Health status problems
d. Observation checklist
c. Health resources problems
80. Target setting in community diagnosis
involves which of the following? d. None of the above

a. Constructing time plan 84. To facilitate data collection, the choices

in the survey form should be:
b. Conducting household calls
a. Coded
c. Motivating community members to
participate in the study b. Encoded

d. Developing a spot map of the community c. Mutually beneficial

81. Which of the following is NOT a d. Mutually exclusive

community dimension secondarily related to
health?
a. Presence of a concrete road
b. 50% of children are malnourished
c. 23% are Iglesia ni Cristo
85. The following are examples of an
exhaustive category, EXCEPT:
a. Sex: male, female, others
b. Income: below P1000; P1001 – P5000;
above 5000

c. Educational attainment: None,

Elementary Undergraduate, elementary
Graduate, High School Undergraduate, 89. Unapproachable RHU staff - B
Highschool Graduate, College
Undergraduate, College Graduate, 90. Lack of antibiotics in the Rural Health
Graduate level of studies Unit - B

d. Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant, 91. Sexual and Reproductive Rights bill (HB
Islam and others 3773) - C

86. Which of the following is not an activity 92. 5% of the population practice
under the implementation phase of responsible parenthood - A
community diagnosis
93. High prevalence of UTI among the
a. Actual data gathering women – A

b. Feedback of results to the community 94. 1: 100,000 midwife to population ratio -

B
c. Action planning
95. Absence of nebulizer in the barangay
d. Target setting health station - B

87. Which of the following refers to activities 96. Active military operations against the
that should be conducted as a result of the NPAs - C
community diagnosis?
97. Unpredictable harsh weather - C
a. Action planning
98. Malfunctioning weighing scale at the
b. Health action health center - B

c. Planning 99. Impassable roads due to landslide - C

d. Development programs 100. Priority – setting of community health

nursing problems make use of the following
f. For numbers 88 – 98. The following are criteria
community health nursing problems
identified through community diagnosis. 1. Nature of the problem
Choose the category to which the given
examples belong to. 2. Salience of the problem

a. Health status problems 3. Magnitude of the problem

b. Health resources problems 4. Social concern

c. Health related problems 5. Preventive potential

d. None of the above 6. Modifiability of the problem

88. Malaria - A a. All, except 1

b. All, except 2 b. Records review

c. All, except 3 c. Interview

d. All, except 4 d. Sample survey

SITUATION: Planning for community Health 7. The following are steps on processing
programs (pg. 20) data. Arrange them in order.

164. For numbers 1 – 5, choose the type of 1. data analysis

plan that fits the example/ description given
below 2. data collection

a. Comprehensive plan 3. data presentation

b. Operational plan 4. data collation

c. Long term plan a. 2,4,1 and 3

d. Medium term plan b. 2,3,4 and 1

e. Short term plan c. 2,4,3 and 1

1. Purchase of a month’s supply of cotton d. 2,3,1 and 4

and alcohol for a pediatric clinic - B
12. The major factors affecting the
2. National health plan - C population include the following except;

3. WHO plan to eradicate tuberculosis a. Births

worldwide - A
b. Deaths
4. President Ramos’ plan for Philippines to
reach the newly industrializing country c. Migration
status by the year 2000. - D
d. Morbidity
5. Regular purchase of office supplies for
13. A population pyramid with a triangular
the health center - B
shape and broad base indicates the
following except;

Situation: Community Diagnosis (pg. 20) a. Death rates

6. The most common method of community b. Poverty

diagnosis that accounts for the bulk of date
c. Young population
is;
d. More females
a. Census
14. The sampling method used for a reliable
community diagnosis is;
a. Simple random
b. Multi-stage
c. Cluster
d. Systematic random
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING (pg. 20)
g. Situation: Community Organizing
Participatory Action Research (COPAR) (pg.
20)
11. The following describes community
organizing, except:
a. It is a continuous and sustained process
of educating the people to understand and
develop their critical awareness on their
condition.
b. It involves motivating the elected leader
to work for the good of the selected
members of the community.
c. It entails working with the people
collectively and efficiently on their
immediate and long-term problems.
d. It includes mobilizing the people for
capability-building process.
12. Which of the following statements
regarding the definitions of COPAR is not
true?
a. COPAR is a social development
approach that aims to transform the
apathetic, individualistic, and
voiceless poor into a politically responsive
community.
b. COPAR is a continuous and sustained
process of educating the people to
understand and develop their critical
awareness of their existing condition.
c. COPAR is a process by which the
community identifies its needs and
objectives and develops confidence to take
action to solve their own problems.
d. COPAR is a collective, participatory, and
a fixed process of building community
organizations.
13. Which of the following statements is true
with regard to the importance of COPAR?
a. COPAR generates income for the
oppressed sector of the society.
b. COPAR prepares people to eventually
take over the management of development
programs.
c. COPAR maximizes the resources of the
upper class of society.
d. COPAR generates income for the
oppressed sector of the society
14. Which of the following statements is
TRUE with regard to the principles of
COPAR?
a. The most oppressed and exploited
sectors of the society are open to change.
b. COPAR should be based on the interest
of the upper class of society.
c. The poorest sector of the society resists
social change.
d. COPAR will only temporarily lead to
self-reliance because poor people, by
nature, needs discipline, and
guidance.
15. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE regarding the PROCESSES
involved in COPAR?
a. COPAR utilizes a progressive cycle of
action-reflection-action process.
b. Consciousness raising through
experiential learning is central to COPAR.
c. COPAR is leader-oriented; thus, it
focuses on core group formation.
d. COPAR is participatory and mass-based.
16. One of the purposes of integration in
COPAR is to __________.
a. Gather data that is necessary in the
identification of community health problems.
b. Understand deeply the culture and
lifestyle in the community.
c. Validate the community health needs
identified earlier.
d. Identify the community leaders that may
be tapped for organizing purposes.
17. Methods of integration include the
following, EXCEPT:
a. Participation in direct production activities
of the people.
b. Conduct house-to-house visits
c. Helping out in household chores
d. Participating in all the social activities of
the youth in the community
18. Social investigation is a systemic
process of collecting, collating, and
analyzing data to draw a clear picture of the
community, except;
a. Training of community leaders in doing
social investigation
b. Analysis of secondary data available
should be considered so as not to duplicate
data and waste time
and effort.
c. Proper integration of health workers is
necessary in facilitating social investigation.
d. Data gathering should utilize survey
questionnaires
19. Groundwork is defined as
___________.
a. Motivating people on a one-on-one basis
to work towards the resolution of community
problems
b. Going around and giving tasks to people
so that community problems will be solved.
c. Uniting the community people as a group
on the proper action towards the resolution
of community problems.
d. Measuring the outcome of activities
implemented versus the objectives that
were set.
20. Reflection deals with ____________.
a. Addressing with the deeper and ongoing
concerns of the community problems will be
solved
b. Echoing the lessons learned from one 24. This phase signals the actual entry of
organization to the other. the community organizer into the
community.
c. Establishing a mirror image “of the
successful organization in one barangay in a. Pre-entry
another barangay.
b. Entry
d. Acting out the tasks that will be done so
as to build the community organization. c. Organizational building phase

21. The following are critical activities under d. Preparation phase

COPAR, except:
e.
a. Role play
f. Situation: In CHN, the nurse utilizes
b. Program planning community organizing (CO).

c. Validation 25. The goal of CO is

d. meetings a. Community participation

22. The following activities fall under the b. Community development

pre-entry or preparatory phase of
community organizing, EXCEPT: c. People’s organization

a. Social preparation through sensitization d. People’s awareness

of barangay leaders
26. Preliminary social investigation utilizes
b. Community profiling
a. Primary data sources
c. Site selection
b. Interviews and organizations
d. Entry into the community
c. Registries and records
23. The other term for the entry phase is
d. Focus group discussions
________.
27. Upon entry to the community, the nurse
a. Orientation phase
can start the following except;
b. Social preparation phase
a. Deepening social investigation
c. Social orientation phase
b. Community integration
d. Preparation phase
c. Small group formation

d. Social preparation
28. Manageable units of the community to
facilitate service delivery and people’s
participation;
a. Spot map
b. Small group
c. Core group
d. Organizing group
29. The basic reasons why the community
organizers need to phase out the
community is to enable the;
a. Nurse to open CO work in other
depressed
areas
b. People to exercise self-reliance
c. People’s organization to expand their
coverage
d. People to test their unity and strengths
30. An instrument for gathering objective
data from an individual is;
a. Nursing history
b. Physical assessment
c. Use of laboratory exam findings
d. Process recording
31. The exact opposite of the current
problematic situation is stated as a;
a. Plan
b. Goal
c. Objective
d. Evaluation
32. In the assessment phase of the family
health nursing process, an indicator for
problem prioritization of a family health
problem is the;
a. Nature of the problem
b. Preventive potential
c. Modifiability
d. Salience
33. By its nature, which of the following
problems will be given least priority?
a. Unemployment
b. Scabies
c. Poor home environment
d. Ascariasis
34. Which of the following indications are
used for determining the family’s value on
prevention?
1. Updated immunization schedule
2. Family’s concept of prevention
3. Compliant behavior
4. Eating habits
a. 1 and 2
b. 1 and 4
c. 1,2 and 3
f. Situation: To ensure the people’s
participation, Pia and Phoebe employed
Community Organizing (CO). (pg. 21)
39. Community organizing is a continuous c. Endorsement by the mayor
and sustained
d. Free clinic
a. Approach
f. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING (pg. 22)
b. Process
40. This phase entails the formation of more
c. Strategy formal structures in the community.

d. Intervention a. Pre-entry phase

40. The goal of CO is; b. Entry phase

a. Community involvement c. Organizational building phase

b. Community development d. Sustenance and strengthening phase

c. Community participation 41. This phase entails the inclusion of more

formal procedures of planning,
d. Community integration implementing, and evaluating
community-wide activities.
41. Awareness raising is an important
element of CO because; a. Pre-entry phase

a. It is the primary motivation to action. b. Entry phase

b. It means community involvement. c. Organizational building phase

c. It may result to chaos if people are not
aware.
d. It preserves a culture of silence.
42. Preliminary social investigation utilizes;
a. Primary data
b. Registries from the municipal hall
c. Actual interviews
d. Ocular inspection
43. The best entry to the community is;
a. Low key approach
b. Entry with a parish priest
d. Sustenance and strengthening phase
42. This phase occurs when the community
organization has already been established
and the community members are
already participating in the community-wide.
a. Pre-entry phase
b. Entry phase
c. Organizational building phase
d. Sustenance and strengthening phase
43. The following are guidelines that should
be followed in the entry phase, except:
a. Recognize the role of local authorities
b. Lifestyle of organizer should be in
keeping with those of the community
residents
c. Organizer should be famous among the
community people
d. The community organizer should act as a
role model
44. The training and education of the
community health organization members is
important for the following purposes,
except:
a. To consolidate the organization
b. To motivate the members to act as a
united whole
c. To equip the members of the organization
with the necessary leadership and health
skills
d. None of the above
45. The following are training programs a
community health organization member
should undergo, except:
a. Self-awareness leadership training
b. Basic health skills training
c. Basic nursing skills
d. Advance health skills training
e.
46. One supervised project in the barangay
is putting up “Botika ng Barangay” which is
supervised by one of the following health
care providers:
a. Pharmacist
b. Physician
c. Midwife
d. Nurse
47. Which of the following is not a function
of the Community Health Organization?
a. Regular planning and conduct of ARAS
b. Ensures collective participation in
decision-making, planning, implementation,
and evaluation of community projects
c. Raising the community’s consciousness
on health
d. None of the above
48. Organization building in community
organizing involves the following except:
a. Spotting and developing potential
leaders
b. Community integration
c. Core group formation
d. Setting up of the community organization
49. Which of the following is not an activity
under the sustenance and strengthening
phase of COPAR?
a. Development of financial management
systems
b. Application for SEC registration
c. Conduct of leadership training seminars
among core group members
d. Collaboration and forming federations
with other groups or organizations
50. The following are strategies under the b. Community organization
sustenance and strengthening phase,
except: c. Community enterprise

a. Education and training d. Community resource management

b. Conduct of mobilizations 56. Community education involves the

following goals, except:
c. Solicitation of material resources needed
a. Conscientization
d. Developing secondary leaders
b. Networking
51. COPAR as a concept is important in
community health nursing because: c. Community value formation

a. It is a comprehensive and its principles d. Skills development

are in keeping with the principles of primary
health care
b. Community organizing is necessary in all
community settings.
57. The following are basic principles of
community development processes.
1 - Democratic and inter- and intra-linked

c. Its methods are already proven to be 2- culture-sensitive and gender-sensitive

effective
3- Dynamic and integrated
d. It is adopted as a community health
4- Sustainable and empowering
nursing approach by all nursing schools
a. All, except 1
Situation: Community Development (pg. 22)
b. All, except 2
54. The three main goals of community
development include the enhancement of c. All, except 3
the following, except:
d. All of the above
a. People’s knowledge

b. People’s participation

c. People’s capability

d. People’s well-being

55. The three main fields of community

development include the following, except: RESEARCH AND QUALITY
IMPROVEMENT (pg. 46)
a. Community education
g. Situation: Environmental protection is a 77. Where else will nurse Luzviminda get
global concern. ideas to make the responsible parenthood
study?
74. How can research data be utilized in the
prevention of disease? a.Conversations with classmates and
friends
a.In recording epidemics and in
communicable disease control. b. Literature and review.

b.In prescribing medications for c. Community data

communicable diseases.
c.In monitoring effects in primary health
care
d.In reporting case findings.
d. Notes from lecture
78. “Responsible parenthood is a 50-50%
sharing of responsibilities between the
husband and the wife.” Which part of the

75. Which step in the research process research canon does this statement belong
uses surveys and interviews to obtain data? to?

a.Statistical analysis of the data a.Research hypothesis

b.Statement of the problem b.Problem statement

c. Review of related literature c. Tool paradigm

d. Data collection d. Conceptual framework

79. Responsible parenthood through survey

research is best analyzed by which design?
e. Situation: Nurse Luzviminda is interested
in conducting a mini-research on a.Correlation
responsible parenthood.
b.Qualitative
76. How should nurse Luzviminda start the
process of research? c. Triangulation

a.Make a survey in the neighborhood. d. Quantitative

b.Identify the focus on the study. 80. The data that you will gather in a study
about responsible parenthood should give
c.Observe family relationships at home. the answer to your ________.

d.Watch family interactions in telenovelas a.Hypothesis

and family shows.
b.Conceptual framework

c. Research problem
d. Instrumentation a.Convenience

b.Purposive

c. Snowball

e. Situation: Sampling. As a beginning d. Quota

researcher, you are aware that sampling is
an essential element of the research 85. You decided to include 5 barangays in
process. your municipality and chose a sampling
method that would get representative

samples from each barangay. What is the

81. What does a sample group represent?
a.Control group
b.General population
c. Universe
d. Study subjects
82. What is the most
characteristic of a sample?
a.Appropriate number
b.Appropriate location
c. Representativeness
d. Randomization
83. Random sampling ensures that each
subject has ____________.
a.an equal chance of selection
b.been selected systematically
c. been selected based on criteria
d. characteristics that match other samples
84. Which of the following sampling
methods allows use of any group of
research subjects?
appropriate method for you to use in this
case?
a.Cluster sampling
b.Stratified sampling
c. Systematic sampling
d. Random sampling
important
FIELD HEALTH SERVICES AND
INFORMATION SYSTEM (FHSIS) (pg. 53)
Situation: Nurse Yasmin is making an
annual report for the rural health unit. This
prompted her to review the importance of
the field health services and information
system or FHSIS.
77. This constitutes the mechanism of
transmitting data from one facility to
another:
a. Family treatment record
b. Target client list
c. Tally form
d. Output report
78. The second building block or foundation
of the FHSIS is the ____________.
a. Family treatment record b. District health office

b. Target client list c. Rural health unit

c. Tally form d. Barangay health station

d. Output record Situation: Field health services and

information system provides summary data
79. The fundamental building block or on health service delivery and selected
foundation of the FHSIS: program from the barangay level up to the
national level. As a nurse, you should know
a. Family treatment record the process on how this information
b. Target client list became processed and consolidated. (pg.
c. Tally form 54)
d. Output report
83. All of the following are objective of
80. This is where the presenting symptoms FHSIS except;
of chief complaint of the patient on
consultation, the diagnosis, treatment and a. To complete the clinical picture of chronic
treatment data are recorded. disease and describe their natural history

a. Family treatment record b. To provide standardized, facility level data

base which can be assessed for more in
b. Target client list depth studies
c. Tally form c. To minimize recording and reporting
burden allowing more time for patient care
d. Output report
and promote activities
82. Which of these is maintained as part of
d. To ensure that the data reported are
the system of records of the BHS, the BHC,
useful and accurate and are disseminated in
the RHU, the MHC or the hospital outpatient
a timely and easy to use fashion
facility?
84. What is the fundamental block or
a. Family treatment record
foundation of the field health service
b. Target client list information system?

c. Tally form a. Family treatment record

d. Output report b. Target client list

83. In the FHSIS, the lowest level of c. Reporting forms

reporting unit is the ____________.
d. Output record
a. Provincial health office
85. Which of the following is used to monitor a. Integration
particular groups that are qualified as
eligible to a certain program of the DOH? b. Community organization

a. Family treatment record c. Community study

b. Target client list d. Core group formation

c. Reporting forms 94. In which step are plans formulated for

solving community problems?
d. Output record
a. Mobilization
86. Dental health services are reported
____________. b. Community organization

a. Immediately c. Follow-up/extension

b. Weekly d. Core group formation

c. Monthly 94. In which step are plans formulated for

d. Quarterly
87. Child births attended to by the LGU
personnel are reported ____________.
solving community problems?
a. Mobilization
b. Community organization

a. Immediately c. Follow-up/extension

b. Weekly d. Core group formation

c. Monthly 95. The public health nurse takes an active

role in community participation. What is the
d. Quarterly primary goal of community organizing?

88. Cases of Diphtheria should be reported a. To educate the people regarding

on which basis? community health problems

a. Immediately b. To mobilize the people to resolve

community health problems
b. Weekly
c. To maximize the community’s resources
c. Monthly in dealing with health problems

d. Quarterly d. To strengthen the bond between the

people
93. Which step in community organizing
involves training of potential leaders in the 96. An indicator of success in community
community? organizing is when people are able to:
a. Participate in community activities for the d. Priority setting is based on the magnitude
solution of a community problem of the health problems identified.

b. Implement activities for the solution of the 45. Population-focused nursing practice
community problem requires which of the following processes?

c. Plan activities for the solution of the a. Community organizing

community problem
b. Nursing process
d. Identify the health problem as a common
concern c. Community diagnosis

43. Which is the primary goal of community d. Epidemiologic process

health nursing?

a. To support the efforts of the medical

profession in the promotion of health and
prevention of illness.

b. To enhance the capacity of individuals,

families and communities to cope with their
health needs.

c. To increase the productivity of the people

by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health.

d. To contribute to national development

through promotion of family welfare,
focusing particularly on mother and

children.

44. CHN is a community-based practice.

Which best explains this statement?

a. The service is provided in the natural

environment of people.

b. The nurse has to conduct community

diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.

c. The service is based on the available

resources within the community.