Situation: Boy George is a 15-year-old adolescent who lives with his mother, father, and several siblings. He is hospitalized in a provincial hospital after a suicide attempt.

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Situation: Collaboration is being able to work cooperatively and efficiently with co-workers and any other people the nurse may have to interact with. This includes other health professionals, clients, and their families and communities.

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Situation: Nurse Roger is assigned in a disaster-prone province in the Visayas. He is aware that with the increase frequency of disaster happening, he has to respond quickly and efficiently to assist the population affected by calamities.

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Situation: In public health service, good record system is important in the delivery of quality care to clients. As a public health nurse, you have the responsibility of assisting in the preparation, maintenance of good records and reports.

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Situation: Miss Lontok, a Public Health Nurse Supervisor, is preparing a supervisor plan for midwives under her charge. A supervisory plan is a written document oh how to organize and systematizes supervisory activities.

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Situation: As a public health nurse, Ms. Isay intends to focus on a specific population to advocate, educate, collaborate with members from a community to improve heath of the people.

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Situation: Ethical issues on a day-to-day basis often involve patient communication and advocacy. It may also include questions about end-of-life care. Nurses are often the ones working closest with patients and families while administering car

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Situation: Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) remain to be the major health challenges in the Philippines and globally. The specific population group that are mostly afflicted by these chronic conditions, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, are those aged 60 and above.

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Situation: After passing the Nurses Licensure Examination, Nurse Magbanua takes her first job in a Rural Health - Unit in Municipality Z. She reviews concepts and principles in Primary Health Care (PHC ).

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Situation: Assessment at the community-level of care is a multidisciplinary undertaking that involves the members of the health team. The public health nurse uses data that have already been collected and are available and/or gathers primary data for community diagnosis.

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Situation: Professional and personal developments are required in order to maintain and enhance professional standards and to provide quality, competent and safe patient care.

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Situation: The Public Health Foundation, an NGO, defines quality improvement in public health as "the use of a deliberate and defined, improvement process, such as the PDCA which is focused on activities that are responsive to community needs and improving population health." Public Health Nurse Casuela learned this management process during her undergraduate studies in Nursing.

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Situation: The World Health Organization stated that occupational health services, provided at the workplace to address the health care needs of wording populations, have been identified as an important component of the public health strategy.

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Situation: Public Health Nurse Manaoag is a member of the health team that is tasked by the Rural Health Unit to identify, define and measure major health problems of interest.

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Situation 15- You are a newly-assigned Rural Health Nurse and you have learnt that based on the latest health information of the municipality, food- and water- transmitted parasitic infections are prevalent.

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Situation: Public health nurse Criselda wants to increase her knowledge a familiarity with the elements of a research publication.

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Situation: The Family Nursing Care Plan is designed to provide ways in solving health-related problems of the family as a whole. The nursing process is used to make this type of care plan

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Situation: The Department of Health has vowed to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by 2030. In the Philippines, the NTDs that are prevalent include leprosy and rabies. One of the strategies to address this goal is through conduct of HEALTH EDUCATION program.

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Situation: Nurses perform duties that require physical assessments, critic thinking, and collaborative treatment plans, to name a few. Thus, nurses must understand the laws that affect their practice, as well as their legal responsibilities in their professional roles.

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Situation 20. - The ability to communicate is a very important skill for every nurse to have. The nurse must do so in an effective, caring and professional manner, especially when communicating with patients and their families.

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