Author Question: A nurse is assessing the safety in the community using primary data. Which of the following data ... (Read 74 times)

Zoey63294 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nurse is assessing the safety in the community using primary data. Which of the following data would be useful for the nurse to collect? (Select all that apply.)

a. Number of billboards in the area
b. Interviews with health care providers who are familiar with the community
c. Observation of community members
d. Nurse's own observations
e. Morbidity and mortality rates

Question 2

A nurse is engaging in the evaluation phase of community health program planning. Which of the following would be part of effective completion of this phase?

a. Demonstrate the ability to improve the health of the participants
b. Develop measureable objectives and goals before implementation
c. Encourage full participation by community members
d. Improve the health of the population through the program

voltaire123 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B, C, D
Other nurses, social workers, health care providers, community members, and the nurse's own observations are reliable sources of information about the safety of an area. The number of bill-boards would not be important data to collect when assessing for safety in the community. Mor-bidity and mortality rates would be considered secondary data.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Evaluation begins in the planning phase, when goals and measurable objectives are established and goal-attaining activities are identified. After implementing the intervention, only the meeting of objectives and effects of the intervening activities have to be assessed. Participation by com-munity members and improvement of the health of the population may be measured through the evaluation phase, but would not demonstrate completion of this phase. The evaluation phase may determine if the participants' health improved, but improvement of health is not part of the com-pletion of this phase.