Ambulatory care nursing is an emerging field of nursing practice in which the nurse
a. deals with clients who are ambulatory and able to walk into the clinic.
b. is part of an interdisciplinary team offering primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
c. offers an integrated system of care to persons within walking distance of the clin-ic.
d. works only with clients who are not acutely ill.
B
The ambulatory nurse takes care of clients who are healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill. Am-bulatory nurses function as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
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