A nursing instructor is presenting a class for a group of students about community-based nursing interventions
The instructor determines that additional teaching is needed when the students identify which of the following as a role of the community-based nurse? A) Conducting childbirth education classes
B) Counseling a pregnant teen with anemia
C) Consulting with a parent of a child who is vomiting
D) Performing epidemiologic investigations
D
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Community health nurses, not community-based nurses, perform epidemiologic investigations to help analyze and develop health policy and community health initiatives. Community-based nurses are involved in teaching, such as childbirth education classes; counseling, such as with a pregnant teenager; and consulting with clients.
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