A nurse recognizes that each stage of community health nursing has certain emphasis and characteristics. What was a defining characteristic during of the public health nursing stage?

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The public health nursing stage was characterized by service to the public, with the family targeted as a primary unit of care. Official, not voluntary, health agencies that placed a greater emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion provided the chief institutional base. The early home care stage (before the mid-1800s) emphasized care to the sick poor in their homes by various lay and religious orders. Primary health care as the key to health for all characterizes the community health nursing stage.

A Nurse Recognizes That Each Stage of Community Health Nursing