Nurses encounter poor persons, families, and populations in a variety of settings. To provide effective care nurses should:
1. Move to the area where people are living to understand their plight
2. Understand the concept of poverty on many levels
3. Take a trip abroad to see how poverty exists in other countries
4. Become fully immersed in the concept of poverty for at least a year
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Understanding the concept of poverty with historical, social, political, economic, biological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions is the first step in providing effective care to this popula-tion.
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A. 3 B. 7 C. 10 D. 14
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