The community health nurse is administering flu shots to children at a local playground. In doing so, the nurse's focus is on
a. Preventing individual illness.
b. Preventing community outbreak of illness.
c. Preventing outbreak of illness in the family.
d. The needs of the individual or family.
ANS: B
By focusing on subpopulations, the community health nurse cares for the community as a whole and considers the individual or the family as only one member of a group at risk. Community-based nursing, as opposed to community health nursing, focuses on the needs of the individual or family.
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