A community health nurse has determined that the number one priority i

A community health nurse has determined that the number one priority is to help families in which one member has diabetes. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate to maximize services to persons with diabetes?

a. Ask friends with diabetes about what services they want improved.
b. Duplicate the diabetic organization’s services, because not all patients with diabetes have yet received services.
c. Meet with the diabetic organization to see how the public health department can augment what it is offering.
d. Submit a request for funding so that the public health department can also offer services to patients with diabetes.

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ANS: C
The nurse should augment existing resources or create a new service rather than duplicate what is already available to the aggregate. It is assumed that if the nurse has concluded that diabetic issues are the number one priority, there is no pressing need to ask specific questions of friends with diabetes.