While completing a community assessment, the nurse notes that the computer companies in the community hire a disproportionate number of their employees from local suburban communities rather than the community in which the company is housed
To create an accurate assessment, the nurse should collect data on:
A) All of the company's employees but count those living outside the community separately, as outliers
B) Only the employees that live in the community, disregarding the others as statistically irrelevant
C) All of the company's employees and include those living outside the community as part of the aggregate
D) Only the employees that live in the community in your initial assessment; then collect data on the others as part of a separate assessment for the community in which they live.
Ans: C
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The group of people, or an aggregate as it is often called in the literature, consists of those who live within the boundary of the geopolitical community. However, these borders are really ambiguous. The aggregate could also include people who work within the community who do not necessarily live there, as well as those living close to community boundaries who visit the communities to purchase goods or use facilities for nonwork activities. Thus, the nurse should collect data on all of the company's employees and include those living outside the community as part of the aggregate.
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