You are assessing a new patient and his home environment. What is a responsibility that you, as a community-based nurse, have at this initial visit?
A) Encourage the patient and his family to use local stores to support their community.
B) Encourage the patient and his family to contact their church as a resource.
C) Encourage the patient and his family to use the Internet to find local resources.
D) Encourage the patient and his family to contact appropriate community resources.
Ans: D
Chapter: 2
Client Needs: D-4
Cognitive Level: Application
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Caring
Objective: 4
Page and Header: 17, Home Health Care
Feedback: During initial and subsequent home visits, the nurse helps the patient and family identify these community services and encourages them to contact the appropriate agencies. When appropriate, nurses may make the initial contact. The other answers are incorrect because a home-health nurse would not encourage the patient to support the community, nor would she necessarily encourage the patient to use the church as a resource or to use the Internet to find his own local resources. The nurse would provide the patient with the applicable local resources.
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