MC Home health nursing is considered a subspecialty of community health nursing. How do home health and community health nursing differ?
A. Home health nursing is reimbursable, whereas community health nursing is not.
B. Community health nursing deals only with the health of aggregates.
C. The focus of community health nursing is health promotion, and the focus of home health nursing is health restoration from a state of illness.
D. Home health nursing focuses on the individual and community health nursing focuses on systems.
C. The focus of community health nursing is health promotion, and the focus of home health nursing is health restoration from a state of illness.
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