Author Question: Community-oriented nursing is an ethical endeavor with moral leadership at its core. The core ... (Read 75 times)

Engineer · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Community-oriented nursing is an ethical endeavor with moral leadership at its core. The core functions are which of the following? Select all that apply.

1. Competency: the persons assigned to develop community knowledge are prepared to collect data on groups and populations
2. Moral character: the persons selected to develop, assess, and disseminate com-munity knowledge possess integrity
3. Feminist theory: a conceptual background on which community-centered care should be based
4. Do no harm: dissemination of appropriate information about groups and popu-lations is morally necessary and sufficient

Question 2

Voters have recently decided to have fluoride added to the city water system. Epidemiolo-gists wanting to study the effect of fluoride on dental caries would be conducting a:

1. Ecologic study
2. Double-blind study
3. Community trial
4. Screening

recede · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

1, 2, 4
Feminist theory is not a core function of community-oriented nursing. Competency, moral cha-racter, and do no harm are core functions.

Answer to Question 2

3
This is similar to clinical trials, but the issue is often health promotion and disease prevention rather than treatment of existing disease.