A public health nurse uses Assumption 2, "Public health nursing practice focuses on populations," to guide practice. Which would be considered a population of interest?
a. Healthy school children
b. Homeless individuals
c. A person recently diagnosed with diabetes
d. Teenage parents
ANS: A
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