The Minnesota Model of Public Health Interventions: Applications for Public Health Nursing Practice suggests that surveillance is one of the interventions related to public health nursing practice
This model gives seven steps of surveillance that nurses should follow. The first step is: 1. Analyze data
2. Consider whether surveillance as an intervention is appropriate to the situation
3. Evaluate the impact of the surveillance
4. Collect data
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Any nurse should know that the first step would be to consider whether the surveillance was ap-propriate.
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