The nurse meets with members of the community in open forums to help determine ways to improve health. The nurse identifies health problems in the community based on the community input and the nurse's community assessment. In this situation, the nurse is practicing:

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3. Community-focused care brings nursing knowledge and expertise to the community. Public health nursing has a perceived focus of environmental sanitation and controlling communicable diseases. Community-driven care focuses on the needs of the community as a whole, but can be limited to only addressing needs identified by community members. Community-oriented care is limited and focuses program development on small aggregates while potentially ignoring health issues affecting larger population groups.

The Nurse Meets with Members of the Community in Open