Public health nursing is guided by priorities identified through an assessment of community health as described by Assumption 4. This includes
1. Community assessment to define one problem that nurses will focus on for any given year.
2. The definition of community is a social network of interacting individuals usually in a defined territory.
3. Prevention strategies are used to minimize the effects of occurrences from the last year.
4. Public health nurses intervene at the population level only after doing community assessments.
ANS: 2
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