How does a community/public health nurse provide indirect care to clients in homes, clinics, senior citizen centers, schools, prisons, homeless shelters, and other living environments?
a. Being employed in community settings such as outpatient clinics
b. Providing anticipatory guidance and health promotion activities to community members
c. Providing care in mobile vans to citizens in their own neighborhoods
d. Being involved on a political action committee to create new client services
ANS: D
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