Which best describes how community health nurses can help a community achieve their common goals?
A) Maintenance
B) Transforming
C) Empowerment
D) Implementation
Ans: C
Through community empowerment, nurses can provide a moral voice to inspire change to regain our historical roots as vanguards of the community. Through empowerment, community health nurses can enable people to make decisions and to act on issues they believe are essential to their health or well-being. The other answer choices are not directly related to the empowerment of communities to achieve a set of goals.
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