ATI Public Health Proctored Exam Practice Questions

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• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Confidentiality
• Veracity

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• Health care costs are kept low, and the indicators of health are among the best worldwide.
• Health care costs are the highest in the world, but the indicators of health are not the best worldwide.
• Health care costs and indicators of health are the highest in the world.
• Health care costs are low which has resulted in poor health outcomes.

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• Study the beliefs and traditions of persons living in other cultures.
• Consider how the nurse’s own personal beliefs and decisions are reflective of his or her culture.
• Complete a survey of all the various ethnicities represented in the nurse’s community.
• Invite a family from another culture to join the nurse for an event.

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• Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
• Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
• Providing care to individuals and families
• To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease

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• Negligence
• Battery
• Libel
• Slander

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• Tertiary Prevention
• Policy Development
• Assessment
• Assurance

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• A group of partygoers hugging and shaking hands
• Two persons, one of whom is infected, sharing a glass of soda
• Disease spreading from infected mother to infant via the placenta
• Being bitten by an infected mosquito

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• "I will make sure that I use the sunscreen that I got for free on my face every day."
• "I will make sure to work with my social worker on obtaining my medication for my depression."
• "I will be certain to attend the health fair to get a free flu shot."
• "I will go to the public health clinic and request a blood pressure screening."

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• Quaternary
• Tertiary
• Secondary
• Primary

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• Teach farmworkers about the importance of daily sunscreen use.
• Provide teaching on how to handle pesticides to avoid or decrease exposure.
• Screen farmworkers for evidence of unsafe handling of pesticides.
• Treat a client who has pesticide exposure to prevent complications.

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• Accommodation
• Brokering
• Awareness
• Imposition

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• "Salmonella has a 48-hour incubation period."
• "Salmonella may be spread by spores that form once contaminated blood is exposed to the air."
• "Salmonella is a bacterial infection."
• "Salmonella symptoms include headaches, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and fever."

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• Primary
• Policy development
• Tertiary
• Secondary

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• Malaria
• Yellow fever
• Dengue
• Onchocerciasis (river blindness)

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• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Policy Development

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• Marijuana has no effect on a fetus.
• Psychological and physiological dependence are seldom experienced with marijuana use.
• Paranoia is a known long term side effect of marijuana use.
• Strength of most available marijuana is weaker than in the past.

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• High pitch sounds
• Dental caries
• Visual acuity
• Curvature of the spine

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• Having the knowledge and skill set needed to provide culturally competent care.
• Having the knowledge and skill set needed to advocate for the patient, but not being able to act on it due to not having the authority to do so.
• Having the authority to override a physician’s order for pain medication.
• Having the authority to call off a code, then realizing the decision was harmful to the patient.