The administrator of a healthcare-related business published the following position description online:
Wanted: Are you a registered nurse with maternal-child, pediatric, or adult medical-surgical experience? If so, consider a position with ABC Agency. We have several positions available to provide care to patients in their homes and to provide care in neighborhood clinics. Call XXX-XXX-XXXX for more information.
Which type of nursing practice is being advertised?
1. Public health
2. Population health
3. Community-based
4. Community-oriented
Correct Answer: 3
Community-based nursing practice is defined as "setting specific practice in which care is provided for 'sick' individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school." The emphasis is on managing acute and chronic conditions through the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care. Nurses working in community-based settings may be generalists or specialists in maternal-infant, pediatric, adult, gerontological, or psychiatric-mental health care. Community-based nursing settings include home health settings, hospitals, clinics, and other acute care settings located within communities. Community-oriented nursing encompasses care provided through a multitude of agencies that are designed to enhance the health of an entire community or population. Community-oriented care settings include public health agencies at all geopolitical levels. Nurses in public health practice intervene at the community and population levels, by using political processes to affect public policy change to achieve health for all members of the community or population, especially vulnerable subpopulations. Population health is an approach to providing care and not a specific type of nursing practice.
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