A community health nurse has completed a community assessment and is now writing a community diagnosis for the problem. Which component of the diagnosis will be used to summarize the assessment data of the problem?
a. Identification of the health risk
b. Evidence supporting the choice of priority
c. The aggregate that needs the intervention
d. The cause of the identified health problem
ANS: A
The identification of the health problem or risk represents a synthesis of all assessment data.
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