Over the Past Three Decades, Many Nurses Have Expressed a Concern

question 14

Multiple Choice

Over the past three decades, many nurses have expressed a concern about the lack of theory development in community health nursing. Why is this such a significant concern?

• A) Because nursing theories were originally developed to focus on population health
• B) Because it is difficult to adapt theories that were developed to focus on individual illness to the community settings where health promotion is the focus
• C) Because nursing theories often depict community problems as isolated events rather than as representative of a pattern of illnesses seen at the family level
• D) Because primary care nursing needs to focus more on social justice, health equity, and advocacy

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