A nurse who works on the surgical unit at the local hospital was asked

A nurse who works on the surgical unit at the local hospital was asked by the home health unit to make a home visit to a patient who had been discharged the previous day and to give follow-up care (for overload pay).

What kind of nursing would this nurse be doing?
a.
Acute care hospital nursing
b.
Community-based nursing
c.
Community health nursing
d.
Public health nursing

ESSAYBID ANSWER

ANS: B
The nurse is caring for a patient in the home. Community-based nursing is nursing somewhere in the community. As the nurse is not focusing on the health of the community but on an individual, it is not community or public health nursing. It is not acute care hospital nursing because the nurse is seeing the patient in his or her home.