A community health nurse is using the Omaha System. Which of the following best describes the rationale for using this system?
a. To define each health care provider's role
b. To use nursing diagnoses in community health nursing practice
c. To foster collaborative practice
d. To provide practitioners a method for communication
ANS: C
The goals of developing the Omaha System were to develop a structured and comprehensive system that could be both understood and used by members of various disciplines and to foster collaborative practice. Therefore, the Omaha System was designed to guide practice decisions, sort and document pertinent client data uniformly, and provide a framework for an agency-wide, multidisciplinary clinical information management system capable of meeting the daily needs of clinicians, managers, and administrators.
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