SKILL #2

1. Which of the following do not describe a community?

a. A group of people living in an environment
b. A social system including people, shared institutions, interaction and power structure.
c. A collection of families living together in a geographical location with the same interest.
d. Is a place to live, where people do not interact and with different cultures
2. Which of the following is not included in the physical environment of a community?
a. Homes, schools, workplaces c. geography and climate
b. Terrain and natural resources d. flora and fauna
3. This describes how fats a communicable disease will be transmitted from one host to the next susceptible host:
a. Urban-rural distributing c. crowding index
b. Population distribution d. population density
4. The following are description of rural community, except:
a. Usually small
b. Occupation of people is farming and fishing
c. Characterized by complex interpersonal social relationship
d. Have a high degree of group belongingness
5. The following are examples of geographical boundaries of a certain community, except:
a. Cities/towns c. valleys
b. Mountains d. rivers
6. This is a demographic data which refers to the changes in the size, composition and distribution of the population:
a. Population size c. population distribution
b. Population dynamics d. population composition
7. This describes the genetic characteristics of the community:
a. Core c. socio-cultural
b. Human biology d. environment
8. Which of the following will not produce a healthy community?
a. Available and affordable healthcare
b. People work together to attain goals
c. Safe and nutritious food
d. People wait for help from the government and NGOs
9. The following are effects of a healthy community, except:
a. Life span is increased c. economic progress
b. Peace and order d. rapid increase of population
10. Social indicators include the following, except:
a. Communication network c. Transportation facilities
b. Poverty, income level d. Health hazard and housing conditions
11. Which is NOT an economic indicator?
a. Monthly income/salaries c. Unemployed/underemployment rate
b. Type of occupation d. educational level
12. Which is NOT considered as environmental indicator?
a. Type of industry c. garbage disposal
b. Water supply d. excreta disposal
13. If community health problem is described in terms of lack or absence of manpower, money, materials or
institutions necessary to solve health problems, it is classified as:
a. Health status c. health resources
b. Health related d. all of the above
14. This refers to the severity of the problem measured in terms of proportion of the population affected by the
problem:
a. Magnitude of the problem c. preventive potentials
b. Modifiability of the problem d. social concern
15. Members of the community who are included in the working population?
a. 15-49 years old c. 15-60 years old
b. 15-54 years old d. 15-64 years old
16. Who are considered as MCRA (Married Couple of Reproductive Age) population?
 a. 15-49 years old c. 15-60 years old
b. 15-54 years old d. 15-64 years old
17. The following problems are categorized as health related problem:
1. High incidence of dengue
2. Unsanitary garbage disposal
3. Lack of medicine supply at health center
4. Unsafe water supply
5. Low educational status of the residence
6. Corrupt barangay officials
a. 1, 2, 3, 4 b. 2, 4, 5, 6 c. 3, 4, 5, 6 d. 2, 3, 4, 5

Situation: After passing the midwifery licensure examination, Belen is accepted as a Rural Health Midwife in the rural
health unit of Sta. Cruz, a municipality she had acquaintance before. The health personnel are known to her. Belen is
aware that the disease prevention is one important goal in Public Health Nursing.

18. Belen decides to make an ocular survey one of the barangay of the municipality where she is assigned. Upon
entrance to a barangay, Belen should:
a. Conduct community assembly
b. Courtesy call to the barangay captain
c. Identify the presence of the community
d. Encourage community participation
19. As a new RHM in the community, Belen needs to establish rapport with the people and establish mutual trust
among them. As an ideal community lifestyle. This is part of the process known as:
a. Social preparation c. Networking
b. Community integration d. Community diagnosis
20. In order to gain support of the community, Belen underscores the importance of community participation which is
the following EXCEPT:
a. It gives the feeling of ownership to the community
b. It encourage dependents of the health workers and representatives of other government
c. It provides the community the opportunity to assume responsibility and leadership
d. It creates awareness and interest
21. The first step community organization is:
a. Integration of people c. Area selection
b. Training of community health workers d. Mobilization of health services
22. A step in organizing the community that Belen will do in order to have an overview of the demographic
characteristic of the community and community health related services is:
a. Form core group c. Community profiling
b. Integrated with the people d. Area selection
23. One of Belen’s objectives in formulating community health plan is based on a problem which states that “many of
the children in the community are undernourished”. In order to select appropriate activities to achieve her
objectives what question must be answered first:
a. What proportion of the children is undernourished
b. Who among the staff is responsible
c. What resources will be needed to solve this problem
d. Why are many children undernourished
24. The rural health midwife is supervised by:
a. Rural Health Nurse c. Municipal Mayor
b. Barangay Chairman d. Rural Health Physician
25. Date in the educational level, source of income, educational attainment and religious affiliation of family
members pertains to:
a. Socio-economic characteristic c. health status
b. Home and environment d. family dynamics

26. To formulate community health diagnosis, Belen will assess not only relevant data on community characteristics
but also in environmental characteristics. Which of the following pertains to environmental characteristics?
1. Language, religion, political orientation
2. Occupation, unemployed status, poverty level
3. Air, water or noise pollution
 4. Vegetation, sanitation
a. 3 and 4 b. 1 and 2 c. 1 and 4 d. 2 and 3
27. In order for Belen to reach more people in the community for health promotion she should utilize:
a. Home visit for the control c. radio announcement
b. Announcement in public market d. community assembles like mother class
28. Which activity is performed in the post conference during a client’s visit to the RHU?
a. Take vital signs
b. Take the clinical history
c. Writing findings on the client’s record
d. Explaining to the client the findings of the doctor and the needed interventions to be done
29. When Belen conducts pre-marriage counseling, she performs her role as:
a. Role modeling c. Change agent role
b. Health monitoring role d. Counselor
30. The first contact of the patient in the health center is the:
a. Midwife b. nurse c. auxiliary health worker d. physician
31. In the health care process, the nursing audit is performed during which phase?
a. Assessment phase c. implementation phase
b. Planning phase d. evaluation phase
32. While interviewing a pre natal client, who came to the health center for her first check-up, you found out that
since the woman’s LMP is 6 months ago, she has not had any antenatal check-up yet. You categorize this lack of
pre natal care to the patient as:
a. Health threat c. health deficit
b. Foreseeable crisis d. health need
33. Which of the following is a health deficit?
a. History of repeated infection c. Traveling by sea often
b. No regular check-up d. Death and illness in the family
34. When the midwife refers to the indigent patient to the Red Cross to obtain blood, she is at what phase of nursing
process?
a. Assessment phase c. Implementation phase
b. Planning phase d. Evaluation phase
35. Which of the following EmOC services is performed in CEmOC?
a. Manual removal of placenta
b. Administration of blood transfusion
c. Parenteral administration of oxytoxics
d. Removal of retained products od conception
36. One BEmOC facility has population coverage of:
a. 100, 000 b. 125, 000 c. 300, 000 d. 500, 000
37. Travel time for CEmOC:
a. 30 min from each catchment area using most common form of transportation
b. 1 hour from each catchment area using most common form of transportation
c. 30 min from each BEmOC facility within the catchment area
d. 1 hour from each BEmOC facility within the catchment area
38. If the community’s perception of the problem is that it is not a community need or concern, it is scored:
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 0
39. When 25 to 49% of the population is affected by the problem, it is scored:
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
40. The problem tree can lead to the probable causes of:
a. Health status problem c. Health related problem
b. Health resources problem d. All of the above
41. This approach to community development is done by building the people’s capabilities so that they can change
themselves and their existing conditions:
a. Transformatory approach c. Welfare approach
b. Project development approach d. Modernization approach

42. What is the ultimate end or purpose of using COPAR as an approach to community development?
a. Mobilize the people in the community
b. Build organizations
c. Develop a self-reliant community
d. Make people work for others
43. Reasons why COPAR is an important tool for community development includes all of the following, except:
a. It can generate community participation
b. It allows the community organizer to fully implement his plan of activities
c. It can empower people to move on
d. It prepares the community to take over the management of development programs late on
44. The following are COPAR definitions, except:
a. It is a process which people identifies problems and takes action through participation
b. It is a social development approach that aims to transform the community into a more dynamic and
responsive community
c. It is a means of interacting or interrelating in a social situation for community stability
d. It is a systemic way of building people’s organization through mobilization
45. When method used in COPAR is primarily directed towards cohesiveness and teamwork of a group, in favor of
the poor, powerless and oppressed, it is said to be:
a. Leader-oriented not group centered
b. Family-centered not community-based
c. Participatory and mass based
d. Utilizing consciousness-raising through experiential learning
46. Social investigation in the community maybe done through the following, except:
a. Use of secondary data from the barangay secretary
b. Conversing with the residents in strategic places like sari-sari store
c. Courtesy call to the city mayor
d. Joining mothers doing their household chores
47. The following will sustain and strengthen the organization built in the community, except:
a. Development of livelihood projects
b. Training and educating primary leaders only
c. Constantly mobilizing people through projects on health and other development concerns
d. Forming links with other organizations
48. It is one of the critical activities in building people’s organization by collecting data through informal or formal
gatherings so that the community organizer can have a clearer picture of the community:
a. Participatory Action Research c. Integration
b. Social Investigation d. Ground Working
49. It is both a profile and process wherein one has a clearer picture of the community’s health situation after a survey
has been conducted and results were interpreted:
a. Community study c. community diagnosis
b. Community design d. community organizing
50. This critical step is done when people meet and has been already decided individually. It gives people power and
confidence.
a. Ground working c. The Meeting
b. Tentative Program Planning d. Mobilization and Action
51. Which of the following is not included in the principles of COPAR?
a. Power should be shared by many and be used opportunities to change oneself and others
b. It leads to a self-reliant community
c. Learning happens fast when one experiences something that is successful, concrete and practical
d. Empower the powerful
52. The characteristic of PAR aspect of COPAR includes all, but one:
a. The selection of the problem is based on the agency’s need
b. It is based on the problem situation of the community
c. Results of the research are within the control of the people
d. It is done by the people themselves
53. Which of the following is NOT true about?
a. Power is given to the people
b. Training people to help themselves
c. Learning by experience
d. Building people’s confidence to take action
54. The phase of COPAR where the community organizer looks for communities to serve of help:
a. Pre-entry c. Organization building
b. Entry d. Sustenance and strengthening
55. Data can be more effectively and efficiently collected through the following, except:
a. House to house calls
 b. Participating in conversation where people gather
c. Passing survey questionnaires around
d. Listening to what people say and not saying
56. COPAR is based on whose interest?
a. Health care worker c. poorest sector
b. People in the community d. educated population
57. The ultimate goal of COPAR:
a. Happy community c. organization building
b. Self-reliant community d. all of the above
58. Which one is not included in the process of COPAR?
a. Enhancing the capabilities of the people to effect change in their conditions
b. A community identifies its needs and objectives
c. Mobilizing the people to develop their capabilities
d. Adaptation of the western technology
59. One of these steps is not correct in doing social investigation:
a. The use of survey questionnaire is the best method of collecting data
b. Community leaders can be trained to assist the community organizer in doing the social investigation
c. Data must be collected through informal methods
d. Social investigation is facilitated if the community organizer has acquired trust of the people.
60. What type of community diagnosis is done if community health worker obtain general information about the
community?
a. Specific community diagnosis c. Comprehensive community diagnosis
b. General community diagnosis d. problem-oriented community diagnosis
61. Criteria in prioritization of community problems that refers to probability of controlling or reducing the effect of
the problem:
a. Nature of the problem c. modifiability
b. Magnitude of the problem d. preventive potentials
62. Which of the following steps should not be done in the entry phase of COPAR?
a. Conduct preliminary social investigation
b. Make long listing, short listing of potential communities
c. Interview barangay officials, leaders and key informants
d. Integration with the community
63. One of the following actions must be performed in organization building phase:
a. Organize working committees c. conduct team building, sensitization
b. Form core group d. develop financial and management
64. This mortality rate is used in ranking the cause of death by magnitude of frequency:
a. Crude Death Rate c. Case Fatality Rate
b. Proportional Mortality Rate d. Infant Mortality Rate
65. What is the reason why an epidemiologist must study the conditions and circumstances that lead to the occurrence
of the diseases?
a. To cure the disease
b. To identify
c. To control the occurrence of the disease
d. All of these
66. In correcting misconceptions and myths about certain disease and their management, the health worker should
first:
a. Identify the source of the myths and misconceptions
b. Identify the myths and misconceptions prevailing in the community
c. Explain how and why these myths came about
67. The office in-charge of registering vital facts in the country:
a. Office of the Civil Registrar c. Municipal Treasurers Office
b. National Statistics Office d. Department of Health

68. Vital Statistics are important because they are:

a. Includes in Midwife’s report
b. Used in measuring effectiveness of health program
c. Taken by census officer
d. Usually given in the exams
69. The data needed in determining Crude Birth Rate:
a. No. of live birth and mid-year population
b. No. of live births and mid-year population of women 15.44 years
c. No. of live birth and no. of deaths
d. No. of death and midyear population
70. It measures the proportion of population which exhibits a particular disease in a particular time:
a. Incidence Rate c. Attack Rate
b. Prevalence Rate d. Proportionate mortality
71. This vital statistics measures the quality of maternity care given to a certain community:
a. Maternal Mortality Rate c. Infant Mortality Rate
b. Perinatal Mortality Rate d. Case Fatality Rate
72. Observations of events in the community are presented in the forms of tables, charts and graphs. Line graph is
used primarily to show:
a. Expression of quantitative data c. relative importance of parts to the whole
b. To show particular observation d. trends in population
73. Interpersonal conflict arises from:
a. Role conflict c. group loyalty
b. Role ambiguity d. threat to status
74. What type of conflict may result when an individual has several roles to perform at the same time?
a. Intrapersonal c. intergroup
b. Interpersonal d. all of the above
75. What resolution strategy will lead to lose-lose program outcome?
a. Avoiding c. forcing
b. Smoothing d. confronting
76. What is the type of behavior a person should have in order to produce a win-win outcome in resolving a conflict?
a. Aggressiveness c. non-aggressiveness
b. Assertiveness d. non-assertiveness
77. What resolution strategy uses power tactics to achieve a win?
a. Avoiding c. forcing
b. Smoothing d. confronting
78. What life position a person has when the probable behavior is aggressiveness?
a. I’m ok, you’re ok c. I’m not ok, you’re not ok
b. I’m ok, you’re not ok d. I’m not ok, you’re ok
79. Accommodating other party’s interest is utilizing which resolution strategy?
a. Avoiding c. forcing
b. Smoothing d. confronting
80. This is an ideal outcome because both persons perceive that they are in a better position than they were before the
conflict began:
a. Lose-lose b. lose-win c. win-lose d. win-win
81. What is the possible behavior the individual has when the resolution strategy used is forcing?
a. Assertive c. non-assertive
b. Aggressive d. non-aggressive
82. One of the conflict resolution strategy will not only lessen the conflict but really will resolve the conflict:
a. Avoiding c. forcing
b. Smoothing d. confronting
83. Who among the following health care providers are classified into intermediate level of health workers?
1. Medical practitioners
2. Trained community health workers
3. Traditional birth attendants
4. Rural sanitary inspector
5. Health auxiliary volunteer
6. Rural Health Midwife
a. 1, 2,3 b. 1,4,6 c. 2,35 d. 4,5,6

84. The midwife conducts classes and training to hilots and BHW for qualitative services. She performs the role of:
a. Manager c. Health Care Provider
b. Statistician d. Community Organizer
85. She conducts immunization session to babies. She functions as:
a. Manager c. statistician
 b. Health care provider d. Community Health Organizer
86. The agency involved in PHC that provides security:
a. DSWD c. Department of Budget
b. Department of National Defense d. DILG
87. She helps promote in the provision of sanitary storage and proper collection and disposal of solid waste:
a. Municipal Health Officer c. Rural Sanitary Inspector
b. Public Health Nurse d. Rural Health Midwife
88. She administers and supervises nursing and midwifery services in the community:
a. Municipal Health Officer c. Rural Sanitary Inspector
b. Public Health Nurse d. Rural Health Midwife
89. She prepares an annual health plan for Brgy. Involving Brgy. Officials. She function as:
a. Manager c. Health Care provider
b. Statistician d. Community Organizer
90. She gives an SCC kit to a 50 year old male with positive result:
a. Municipal Health Officer c. Rural Sanitary Inspector
b. Public Health Nurse d. Rural Health Midwife
91. She monitors incidence of systematic viral infection in the barangay:
a. Municipal Health Officer c. Rural Sanitary Inspector
b. Public Health Nurse d. Rural Health Midwife
92. Who among the health professionals are the most accessible health workers in the community?
a. Rural Health Doctors c. Rural Health Midwives
b. Trained hilots and BHWs d. Public health Nurses
93. Which of the following qualities of a health worker denotes that she is efficient?
a. She accepts need for joint planning and decision relative to health care in a particular situation and not
resistant to change
b. She is unbiased and fair in decision making
c. She is knowledgeable about everything relevant to her practice
d. She is able to cope with different situations
94. The RHM is considered as critical thinker if she:
a. She decides on what has been analyzed
b. She brings into consonance or harmony the community’s health care activity
c. She is always available for the participant to voice out their sentiments and needs
d. She has necessary skills expected of him
95. Health education is an accepted activity at all levels of public work. Communication is one aspect the health
educator needs to consider which refers to:
a. Provision of knowledge
b. Change in knowledge, attitude and skills
c. Exchange of information
d. All of the above
96. The RHM must be aware of the proper sequence of steps in health education:
1. Motivation
2. Decision-making
3. Create awareness
a. 1,2,3 b. 2,31 c. 3,1,2 d. 2,1,3
97. The health educator is tactful when she:
a. Imparts relevant, updated and sufficient input
b. Brings about issue in small but subtle manner
c. Knows how to place a touch of humor to keep audience alive
d. Invites ideas, suggestions, criticisms
98. If the RHM as health educator involves participants actively in assuming the responsibility for his own learning,
what trait does she show?
a. Good listener c. keep observer
b. Change agent d. good communicator

99. She will be considered as systematic health educator if she:

a. Knows how to put into sequence or logical order the parts of the session
b. Uses available resources and involves participants
c. Is a critical thinker
 d. Provide participant with clear and relevant information
100. But if the health educator keeps eye on the proceedings, processes and participants’ behavior, she is:
a. Efficient c. good listener
b. Keen observer d. creative