Which of the following are considered barriers to public health nursing? (Select all that apply.)
a. The mindset that the only role for the nurse is at the bedside
b. The structures within which nurses work and the process of role socialization within those structures
c. Few nurses receive graduate-level prepara-tion in the concepts and strategies of the disciplines basic to public health
d. The steady decline in the number of job opportunities in the area
e. The inability to equally distribute the in-creasing funds
ANS: A, B, C
Barriers exist in thinking that nurses only work in a hospital at the bedside, the process of role socialization in public health which can be a very autonomous profession, and that few nurses have had advanced education in public health. The number of job opportunities continues to in-crease, but the amount of funding allotted to public health continues to decline.
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