A public health nurse collaborates with local community leaders to develop a local campaign educating about the importance of wearing a seat belt. What client system of the integrative model does this describe?
a. Community
b. Aggregate
c. Family
d. Individual
A
Interventions to initiate or maintain healthy lifestyles must be multifocal. At the broadest level of care (community), nurses work with community leaders, other community residents, and health professionals to plan programs to promote optimal health for the community and its people.
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A nurse caring for a patient notes that the patient has a temperature of 104° F and a heart rate of 110 beats per minute. The patient's skin is warm and moist, and the patient complains that the room is too warm
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