Hello, in my last few weeks of nursing school and i was wondering if any one has had community and what to expect as far as test goes, readn the book everythg seems so blah, i knpw teachers test differently so i just want some ideas

Thanks

In my community class, our biggest grade was actually a group project where we collected data on a certain population in our area. Based on that data, we developed a presentation to share those results and identify some helpful community interventions that a nurse could implement. It was actually kind of fun and interesting.

But we did also have exams. If I remember correctly, the exam questions covered things like how to identify a person in crisis, difference between community vs individual interventions, types of things the dept of health would be responsible for, which diseases are required to report to CDC (and which of those are most common), and some privacy issues I think. There was probably more, but that's all i can remember from having taken it a few years ago!! Hope it helps some.

Thanks alot for tht reply, yea we hv presentations too but they only count 20% of our grade. My teach said her questions. Would be application type questions

It will probably be questions like "You are a nurse at the dept of health clinic. A child is brought in and diagnosed with pertussis. Which of the following is most important to do?"

Then, one of the answer choices might be something like "Report this case of pertussis to the State Dept of Health (or CDC)." Of course, if there is an immediate intervention necessary (i.e. the child is currently turning blue because they can't breath or something), then that is the priority. But this is an example of how they might use an application-type question to test and see if you know which diseases are reportable, and since this is a community health class then she probably wants to make sure you know what kind of community intervention to do, rather than an individual intervention.

Thanks alot!