SUNDOWN

QUIZZES
1.When the nurse is doing teaching in a community
based setting, it is most important for the nurse to:
a.Use posters that everyone in the group can read
b.Know the needs of the audience
c.Ask questions about the histories of those events
d.Tell the participants about the nurse’s background
2. Primary Health Care was declared as part of a
strategy in community health development during
the ALMA ATA CONFERENCE in the year:

a.1978 c. 1878
b.1979 d. 1879
3. One of the advocacies of primary health care is the use of appropriate
technology to deliver health services to the community members. All but
one demonstrates the use of appropriate technology:
a. Teaching mothers how to prepare low-cost, easily digestible and
highly nutritious protein powders to feed children with malnutrition
b.Use of automated defibrillator in emergency cases in the far-flung
areas
c. Use of komiks in information and educational campaign about dengue
d.Use of guava leaves for washing wounds and for diarrhea
4. Which of the following is not under the
primary level of care:
a.Puericulture center
b.Rural health unit
c. Emergency/District hospital
d. Community Hospital
5. What is the legal basis
of primary health care?
6. Upon arrival at the patient’s home, what is
the first object you have to take out from your
public health bag?
a.Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope
b. Apron
c. Paper lining
d. Towel and soap
7. When conducting a home visit, the first step
that the nurse must employ is to:
a.Explain the purpose to the client
b.Wash hands and perform the necessary
procedure
c.Do an environmental surveillance
d.Greet the residents and introduce self
8. To achieve best results in health care, planning for home
visits is an essential tool. The following are principles that the
nurse should keep in mind about preparing for home visit,
except
a.Planning should be flexible and practical
b.Home visits should have a purpose
c.Planning of continuing care must be developed by the nurse
d.Plans are based on available information including those from
other agencies that may have rendered services to the family
9. Francis, a 4th year student nurse will be conducting home
visit to Hernando’s residence. Upon greeting the mother, the
mother explained that she is very busy with the house chores
and many student nurses already interviewed her family. The
appropriate action of Francis after explaining the purpose of his
visit is:
a. Ask the Barangay Chairman for assistance
b.Set an appointment based on the mother’s convenient time
c. Tell the clinical instructor about the problem
d.Select another family as a client
10. It refers to a description of a
disease occurrence which is
constantly present in a given area:
a.Pandemic c. Endemic
b.Sporadic d. Epidemic
11. The following are reagents available in the
health center. Which of this is used to test
presence of sugar in the urine?
a. Benedict’s solution
b. Methylene Blue
c. Acetic Acid Solution
d. Iodine Solution
12. In order to maintain potency of vaccines appropriate
temperature has to be maintained. Which of the following
adheres to the guidelines of cold chain management?
a. DPT and OPV stored at temperature of +2 to +8 degree Celsius
b.BCG and Hep B stored at temperature of +2 to +8 degree
Celsius
c. DPT and OPV stored at temperature of -15 to -50 degree
Celsius
d.BCG and Hep B stored at temperature of -15 to -50 degree
Celsius
13. Garlic (Bawang) is given to patients:
a. Male client with high uric acid
b. Basketball player with athlete’s foot
c. Child with small wound on his knee
d. Hypertensive client
14. A medicinal herb that has chrysophanic
acid, a fungicide used to treat fungal
infections, like ringworms and scabies. This is
also known as “bayabas-bayabasan.”
a. Ulasimang Bato
b. Bayabas
c. Tsaang Gubat
d. Akapulko
15. Niyug-niyogan (Quisqualis Indica L.) is
commonly given to children above four years old as
anti-helminthic. Which part of the medicinal part
you will prepare to be taken two hours after supper:
a.Leaves
b. Stem
c. Flower
d. Seeds
16. Tsaang gubat is a shrub with small, shiny nice –
looking leaves that grow s in wild uncultivated areas
and forests. This herb is known as remedy for which
ailment:
a.Diarrhea and stomach ache
b. Anti-edema and anti-urolithiasis
c.Rheumatism and Swollen gums
d. Asthma, cough, and fever
17. The basic prenatal service that is available in
the rural health unit but not in the barangay health
centers is
a. Iron supplementation
b. Laboratory examination
c. Dental check-up
d. Treatment of diseases
18. What organ is responsible for
initiating the menstrual cycle?
19. In IMCI, severe conditions generally require
urgent referral to a hospital. Which of the
following severe conditions Does not always
require urgent referral to hospital? Select all that
apply
a. Mastoiditis
b. Severe dehydration
c. Severe pneumonia
d. Severe febrile disease.
20. The typology of family nursing problems is used in
the statement of nursing diagnosis in the care of
families. The youngest child of the Delos Reyes family
has been diagnosed as mentally retarded. This is
classified as:

a. Health threat c. Forseeable crisis

b. Health deficit d. Stress Point
21. Region IV Hospital is classified as
what level of facility? 
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Intermediate
d. Tertiary
22. The Delos Reyes couple have 6-year old
child entering school for the first time. The delos
Reyes family has a:
a. Health threat
b. Health deficit
c. Forseeable crisis
d. Stress Point
23. Which of the following is an advantage of a home visit?
a. It allows the nurse to provide nursing care to a greater
number of people
b. It provides an opportunity to do first hand appraisal of the
home situation
c. It allows sharing of experience among people with similar
health problems
d. It develops the family’s initiative in providing for health
needs of its members
24. Which is CONTRARY to the principles in planning a
home visit?
a. A home visit should have a purpose of objective
b. The plan should revolve around the family health
.needs
c. A home visit should be conducted in the manner
prescribed by RHU
d. Planning of continuing care should involve a
responsible-family member
25. To maintain the cleanliness of the bag and its contents,
which of the following must the nurse do?
a. Wash his/her hands before and after providing nursing care
to the family members
b. In the care of family member’s, as much as possible, use
only articles taken from the bag
c. Put on an apron to protect her uniform and fold it with the
right side out before putting it back into the bag.
d. At the end of the visit, fold the lining on which the bag was
placed, ensuring that the contaminated side is on the outside.
26. What is the confirmatory test of
tuberculosis?
27. You are computing the crude rate of your municipality,
with a total population of about 18,000 for last year. There
were 94 deaths. Among those who died, 20 died because of
diseases of the heart and 32 were aged 50 years or older. What
is the crude death rate?
a. 4.1/1000 c.6.3/1000
b. 5.2/1000 d. 7.3/1000
28. In the past year, Barangay A had an average
population of 1655. 46 babies were born in that year, 2
of whom died less than 4 weeks after they were born.
They were 4 recorded stillbirths. What is the neonatal
mortality rate?
a. 27.8/1000 c. 86.9/1000
b. 43.5/1000 d. 130.4/1000
29. Civil registries are important sources of data.
What law requires registration of births within 30
days from the occurrence of the birth?
30. Which of the following professionals can sign the
birth certificate?
a. Public health nurse
b. Rural health midwife
c. Municipal health officer
d. Any of these health professionals
31. In the community, who is the focus of care
and the basic unit of service?
a.Individual c. Community
b.Family d. Population
32. A significant factor in determining the
frequency of the home visit is the
a.Policy of the local government
b.Continuing care involving the individual and
family
c.Purpose of the visit
d.Acceptance of the family of the services offered
33. The occurrence of an unusually large
number of cases in a relatively short
period of time is called:
a.Endemic c. Sporadic
b.Pandemic d. Epidemic
34. Barangay Pinamanculan has been
identified as a malarious area. Residents
gather for a meeting in the barangay hall
which was built and sponsored by nursing
students from Butuan Doctors Sigurado ang
Ambisyon College. Which of the following
measures should be emphasized in health
a. House spraying
education with this
classes during mosquito repellants
meeting?
b. Insecticide treatment of mosquito nets
c. Removing empty cans and tires with
water that are possible breeding places
d. Avoiding outdoor activities from 9pm to
35. The nurse notes that James has chest
indrawing and stridor, his mother returned to
the health center immediately. The nurse
should:
a. Observe the child in the health center
b. Advise the mother to observe the child and
continue giving the antibiotics
c. Change the medicine to the second line
antibiotics
d. Give first dose of antibiotics and refer
urgently
36. Bibo, age 3, has had diarrhea for 10 days
and is lethargic. He has sunken eyeballs but
has no blood in his stools. He drinks poorly
when offered fluid. Skin pinch at the
abdomen shows very slow return. Using
a. Some
IMCI, dehydration
Bibo’s illness may be classified as:
b. Severe dehydration
c. Persistent diarrhea
d. No dehydration
37. You are taking care of an 9-kg 18-month old
infant taken to the health center because of
diarrhea and you classify him as Severe
dehydration. You immediately insert a 26-gauge
IV cannula for the infusion of Plain LR as part of
the plan C. Identify which
a. Infuse 270 ml of PLR for one intervention is
correct?
hour
b. Infuse 630 ml of PLR for the next five
hours
c. Infuse 270 ml of PLR for 30
minutes
d. Infuse 630 ml of PLR for one
38. In performing bag technique actions,
before opening the bag, you should ask for a
basin of water or a glass of drinking water if
tap water is not available. What is the
a. To be used
rationale in cleaning the opening of
for this?
public
b. To behealth baghandwashing
used for
c. To be used by the nurse in case he/she is
thirsty to prevent interruption later on
d.
. To be used in cleaning the table
39. To assess the general health
condition of Barangay Villa
Kananga, a knowledgeable nurse
should calculate for the:
a. Crude Birth Rate
b. Fetal Death Rate
c.
. Neonatal Death Rate
d. Infant Mortality Rate
40. Miles, age 3, was brought by her
mother to the center because of
constant rubbing behind the ear.
The manifestation of Miles can be
classified under
a. Ear drainage
b. Mastoiditis
c. Acute ear infection
d. Chronic ear infection