PRIMARY HEALTH CARE QUESTIONS (MIDWIFERY)

1. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
a. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital.
b. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchments area.
c. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing
services.
d. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services.
2. When the nurse determines whether resources were maximized in implementing
Ligtas Tigdas, she is evaluating
a. Effectiveness
b. Efficiency
c. Adequacy
d. Appropriateness
3. Vangie is a new B.S.N. graduate. She wants to become a Public Health Nurse. Where
should she apply?
a. Department of Health
b. Provincial Health Office
c. Regional Health Office
d. Rural Health Unit
4. Tony is aware the Chairman of the Municipal Health Board is:
a. Mayor
b. Municipal Health Officer
c. Public Health Nurse
d. Any qualified physician
5. Myra is the public health nurse in a municipality with a total population of about
20,000. There are 3 rural health midwives among the RHU personnel. How many more
midwife items will the RHU need?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. The RHU does not need any more midwife item.
6. According to Freeman and Heinrich, community health nursing is a developmental
service. Which of the following best illustrates this statement?
a. The community health nurse continuously develops himself personally and
professionally.
b. Health education and community organizing are necessary in providing
community health services.
c. Community health nursing is intended primarily for health promotion and prevention
and treatment of disease.
d. The goal of community health nursing is to provide nursing services to people in their
own places of residence.
7. Nurse Tina is aware that the disease declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 4
as a target for eradication in the Philippines is?
a. Poliomyelitis
b. Measles

c. Rabies
d. Neonatal tetanus
8. May knows that the step in community organizing that involves training of potential
leaders in the community is:
a. Integration
b. Community organization
c. Community study
d. Core group formation
9. Beth a public health nurse takes an active role in community participation. What is the
primary goal of community organizing?
a. To educate the people regarding community health problems
b. To mobilize the people to resolve community health problems
c. To maximize the communitys resources in dealing with health problems.
d. To maximize the communitys resources in dealing with health problems.
10. Myrna a public health nurse knows that to determine possible sources of sexually
transmitted infections, the BEST method that may be undertaken is:
a. Contact tracing
b. Community survey
c. Mass screening tests
d. Interview of suspects
11. The student nurse is aware that the pathognomonic sign of measles is Kopliks spot
and you may see Kopliks spot by inspecting the:
a. Nasal mucosa
b. Buccal mucosa
c. Skin on the abdomen
d. Skin on neck
12. Angel was diagnosed as having Dengue fever. You will say that there is slow capillary
refill when the color of the nailbed that you pressed does not return within how many
seconds?
a. 3 seconds
b. 6 seconds
c. 9 seconds
d. 10 seconds
13. Myrna a public health nurse will conduct outreach immunization in a barangay Masay
with a population of about 1500. The estimated number of infants in the barangay would
be:
a. 45 infants
b. 50 infants
c. 55 infants
d. 65 infants
14. The community nurse is aware that the biological used in Expanded Program on
Immunization (EPI) should NOT be stored in the freezer?
a. DPT
b. Oral polio vaccine
c. Measles vaccine
d. MMR

15. Nurse Ron is aware that unused BCG should be discarded after how many hours of
reconstitution?
a. 2 hours
b. 4 hours
c. 8 hours
d. At the end of the day
16. The nurse explains to a breastfeeding mother that breast milk is sufficient for all of
the babys nutrient needs only up to:
a. 5 months
b. 6 months
c. 1 year
d. 2 years
17. As a public health nurse, you teach mother and family members the prevention of
complication of measles. Which of the following should be closely watched?
A. Temperature fails to drop
B. Inflammation of the conjunctiva
C. Inflammation of the nasophraynx
D. Ulcerative stomatitis
18. Source of infection of measles is secretion of nose and throat of infection person.
Filterable virus of measles is transmitted by:
A. Water supply
B. Droplet
C. Food ingestion
D. Sexual contact
19. The WHO held a meeting in this place where Primary health Care was discussed.
What is this place?
A. Alma Ata
B. Russia
C. Vienna
D. Geneva
20. The following are mission of the DOH except:
a. Ensure accessibility
b.Quality of health care
c.Health for all Filipinos
d.Quality of Life of all Filipinos
21. The basic principles to achieve improvement in health include all BUT:
a. Universal access to basic health services must be ensured
b. The health and nutrition of vulnerable groups must be prioritized
c. Performance of the health sector must be enhanced
d. Support the frontline workers and the local health system
22. Which of the following is not a primary strategy to achieve health goals:
a. Support of local health system development
b. Development of national standards for health

c. Assurance of health care for all

d. None of the above
23. According to the WHO health is:
A. state of complete physical, mental and social well being not merely the
absence of disease
B. A science and art of preventing disease and prolonging life
C. A science that deals the optimum level of functioning of the Individual, family and
community
D. All of the above
24. Assistance in physical therapy of a trauma patient is a:
Primary level of prevention
B. Secondary level of prevention
C. Tertiary level of prevention
D. Specialized level of prevention
25. Local health boards were established at the provincial, city and municipal levels. At
the municipal level,the chairman of the board is the:
A.Rural Health physician
B.Governor
C.Mayor
D.Chairman of the Committee on Health
26. The emphasis of community health nursing is on:
A. Treatment of health problems
B. Preventing health problems and promoting optimum health
C. Identification and assessment of health problems
D. Illness end of the wellness-illness continuum.
27. Which of the following is the primary focus of community health nursing practice?
a. Cure of illnesses
b. Prevention of illness
c. Rehabilitation back to health
d. Promotion of health
28. In community health nursing, which of the following is our unit of service as nurses?
a. The Community
b. The Extended Members of every family
c. The individual members of the Barangay
d. The Family
29. The correct temperature to store vaccines in a refrigerator is:
a. between -4 deg C and +8 deg C
b. between 2 deg C and +8 deg C
c. between -8 deg C and 0 deg C
d. between -8 deg C and +8 deg C
30. Which of the following vaccines is not done by intramuscular (IM) injection?
a. Measles vaccine
b. DPT
c. Hepa B vaccines
d. DPT

31. This vaccine content is derived from RNA recombinants:a. Measles

b. Tetanus toxoids
c. Hepatitis B vaccines
d. DPT
32. This is the vaccine needed before a child reaches one (1) year in order for him/her to
qualify as a fully immunized child.
a. DPT
b. Measles
c. Hepatitis B
d. BCG
33. Which of the following dose of tetanus toxoid is given to the mother to protect her
.infant from neonatal tetanus and likewise provide 10 years protection for the mother?
a. Tetanus toxoid 3
b. Tetanus toxoid 2
c. Tetanus toxoid 1
d. Tetanus toxoid 4
34. Which of the following conditions is NOT true about contraindication to immunization?
a. do not give DPT2 or DPT3 to a child who has convulsions within 3 days of DPT1
b. do not give BOG if the child has known hepatitis .
c. do not give OPT to a child who has recurrent convulsion or active neurologic disease
d. do not give BCG if the child has known AIDS
35. Which of the following statements about immunization is NOT true:
a. A child with diarrhea who is due for OPV should receive the OPV and make
extra dose on the next visit
b. There is no contraindication to immunization if the child is well enough to go home
c. There is no contraindication to immunization if the child is well enough to go home and
a child should be immunized in the health center before referrals are both correct
d. A child should be immunized in the center before referral
36. The Community/Public Health Bag is:
a. a requirement for home visits
b. an essential and indispensable equipment of the community health nurse
c. contains basic medications and articles used by the community health nurse
d. a tool used by the Community health nurse is rendering effective nursing procedure
during a home visit
37. What is the rationale in the use of bag technique during home visit?
a. It helps render effective nursing care to clients or other members of the
family
b. It saves time and effort of the nurse in the performance of nursing procedures
c. It should minimize or prevent the spread of infection from individuals to families
d. It should not overshadow concerns for the patient
38. Which among the following is important in the use of the bag technique during home
visit?

a. Arrangement of the bags contents must be convenient to the nurse

b. The bag should contain all necessary supplies and equipment ready for use
c. Be sure to thoroughly clean your bag especially when exposed to communicable
disease cases
d. Minimize if not totally prevent the spread of infection
39. This is an important procedure of the nurse during home visits?
a. protection of the CHN bag
b. arrangement of the contents of the CHM bag
c. cleaning of the CHN bag
d. proper handwashing
40. In consideration of the steps in applying the bag technique, which side of the paper
lining of the CHN bag is considered clean to make a non-contaminated work area?
a. The lower lip
b. The outer surface
c. The upper lip
d. The inside surface
41. In correcting misconception and myths about certain diseases and their
management, the health worker should first:
A. Identify the myths and misconceptions prevailing in the community
B. Identify the source of these myths and misconceptions
C. Explain how and why these myths came about
D. Select the appropriate IEC strategies to correct them.
42. How many percent of measles are prevented by immunization at 9 months age?
A. 80 %
B. 90%
C. 99 %
D. 95 %
43. After TT3 vaccination a mother is said to be protected to tetanus by around?
A. 80 %
B. 85 %
C. 99 %
D. 90 %
44. If ever convulsion occurs after administering DPT, what should nurse best suggest to
the mother?
A. Do not continue DPT vaccination anymore
B. Advise mother to come back aster 1 week
C. Give DT instead of DPT
D. Give pertussis of the DPT and remove DT
45. These vaccines are given 3 doses at one month intervals:
A. DPT, BCG, TT
B. DPT, TT, OPV
C. OPV, Hep. B, DPT
D. Measles, OPV, DPT

46. Which method of transmission is common to contract AIDS:

A. Syringe and needles
B. Body fluids
C. Sexual contact
D. Transfusion
47. Causative organism in AIDS is one of the following:
A. Fungus
B. Bacteria
C. Retrovirus
D. Parasites
48. You are assigned in a private room of Mike. Which procedure should be of outmost
importance:
A. Alcohol wash
B. Universal precaution
C. Washing isolation
D. Gloving technique
49. What primary health teaching would you give to Mike?
A. Daily exercise
B. Prevent infection
C. Reversal Isolation
D. Proper nutrition
50. Exercise precaution must be taken to protect health worker dealing with the AIDS
patients, which among these must be done as priority?
A. Boil used syringed and needles
B. Use gloves when handling specimen
C. Label personal belonging
D. Avoid accidental wound