What document is helpful in describing competent and appropriate nursing care in the community?
A. Community Health: Standards of Nursing
B. Healthy People 2010
C. The Joint Commission: The Comprehensive Accreditation Manual
D. Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
Question 2
In a situation in which there are not enough resources to care for everyone who wants and could benefit from care, what would an ethical community/public health nurse do?
A. Ask the agency supervisor how to approach this problem.
B. Focus on basic services such as immunization for everyone in the community.
C. Give care to everyone who can pay the cost of whatever care they might need.
D. Follow agency policies, whatever those policies might be.
E. Give care to those workers and their families who have insurance to pay for their care.