The role of the community-based nurse has evolved to emphasize:
a. Managing care to cure health problems once they have been identified
b. Participating in the activities of a team of interdisciplinary health care providers
c. Providing direct care to patients
d. Planning patient care
ANS: B
The nurse must work with the interdisciplinary health care team to identify needs within the community and create cost-effective approaches to comprehensive preventive and therapeutic care. While providing and planning patient care is still important, the evolving role of the community-health nurse now requires additional skills, such as creativity, problem solving, coordination of multidisciplinary caregivers, case management, assessment, and referral.
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