A Nurse Working in an Urban Nurse-Managed Health Clinic Located

A nurse working in an urban nurse-managed health clinic located in a neighborhood with a high poverty rate notices that the patients she is seeing with type 2 diabetes are having difficulty controlling their A1C levels. She suspects that they may be having difficulty accessing their medications due to cost. What would be her first step in addressing the problem?

A) Conduct a focused assessment that includes a patient survey and an evaluation of factors associated with access to medication.
B) Counsel patients on how to obtain health insurance to help with the cost of pharmaceuticals.
C) Develop a patient education information pamphlet related to controlling A1C that is culturally relevant and addresses health literacy levels of the population.
D) Formulate a community diagnosis and enlist stakeholders to help increase assess to diabetic medications.