A nurse is wondering if home health care nursing is a good fit. What characteristic or ability does the experienced home health care nurse suggest is most important?

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The role of the registered nurse in home health care is essentially autonomous in that the nurse must be highly proficient in health assessment (physical and psychosocial), be well versed in complex technical and clinical skills, possess strong critical-thinking and clinical reasoning abilities, and demonstrate excellent organizational skills.
All choices are important characteristics or abilities of home health care nurses. However, since the nurse working out in the community may not have the resources (personnel or materiel) available in an acute care facility and often must improvise, clinical reasoning would be the most important of the choices provided.

A Nurse Is Wondering If Home Health Care Nursing Is