A nurse has assessed a community and has found many areas in which health can be improved. As a result, the nurse has multiple ideas for programming. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Determine what the community thinks is most important
b. Use vital statistics to determine which is most important
c. See what other communities are focusing programming on
d. Choose the easiest problem to address first
ANS: A
The nurse's priorities may be very different from the community's. For programming to be successful, there must be buy-in from members of the community. Unless programming addresses a need the community thinks is important, it is unlikely to be successful.
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