Which vital role must the community health nurse use to understand and serve populations addicted to opioid medications?

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While all of these are important roles to the community health nurse, studying the data is the first step and vital to the roles. The nurse can identify incidence and prevalence of opioid addictions by examining the causes and risk factors associated with the disorders, then identifying and addressing the needs of people with substance use disorders. As an advocate, the nurse can reduce barriers to treatment and improve services but not advocate for changes to prescribing opioids. This work requires the nurse to be politically active. As an educator, the nurse can provide information to the client and to the community.

Which Vital Role Must the Community Health Nurse Use to Understand