One challenge for nurses working in ambulatory care centers is
a. clients give overall responsibility for self-care to the center.
b. duties are rigidly defined within the interdisciplinary team.
c. length of client visit is short, reducing assessment time.
d. use of telephones and computers eases assessment potential.
C
The short time of the ambulatory care visit makes assessment difficult and makes omissions in the assessment almost impossible to correct.
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