A public health nurse (PHN) is asked by the hospital administration to find out why there are so many pediatric asthma patients coming to the ER for treatment and to develop a plan to reduce admissions by 10%
The nurse needs to untangle the multiple risk factors involved in order to determine what type of intervention should be developed, so he or she uses:
A. Descriptive data analysis
B. The ecological model
C. Demography
D. The web of causation
ANS: D
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