The infection control nurse in the main hospital located in an industrial mill town alerts the public health department to the recent admission of patients with a waterborne illness. Once they had identified a common pathogen, they recognized that the outbreak was confined to poorer members of their community who did not have access to a pool during an extreme heat wave. They had been swimming in the local lake that was supposed to be off limits. All who had gotten sick had submerged their head. This is an example of a
A) Nursing community diagnosis.
B) Social justice issue.
C) Community assessment.
D) Consequence of climate change.
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