The population health nurse is evaluating care provided to the poor and homeless. What should be the primary focus of this evaluation?
1. Training programs employ the homeless.
2. Systems-level outcomes are met.
3. Client-level outcomes are met.
4. Individual and population intervention objectives are met.
Answer: 4
Explanation: 4. The best answer is to evaluate how individual level and population level nursing intervention objectives are met. Training programs are a criterion but may not address how successful they have been utilized. Systems-level outcomes address ease of access of programs but do not necessarily evaluate care. Client level outcomes include client involvement but do not indicate an evaluation. Training programs are a criterion but may not address how successfully they have been utilized.
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