The community health nurse is identifying approaches to support a community's health care needs. Which programs should the nurse select to support community-based health care?
1. Smoking cessation classes
2. Personal safety classes for women
3. Blood pressure measurement clinic
4. Outpatient clinic for minor ailments
5. Allergy injection clinic on weekends
Correct Answer: 1, 2, 3
Rationale 1: Community-based care is holistic and involves a broad range of services designed not only to restore health but also to promote health, prevent illness, and protect the public. This would include smoking cessation classes.
Rationale 2: Community-based care is holistic and involves a broad range of services designed not only to restore health but also to promote health, prevent illness, and protect the public. This would include personal safety classes for women.
Rationale 3: Community-based care is holistic and involves a broad range of services designed not only to restore health but also to promote health, prevent illness, and protect the public. This would include blood pressure measurement clinics.
Rationale 4: The traditional health care system focuses on the ill and injured. An outpatient clinic for minor ailments would be a traditional health care program.
Rationale 5: The traditional health care system focuses on the ill and injured. An allergy clinic on weekends would be a traditional health care program.
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