What historically have been public health nurses’ two most important p

What historically have been public health nurses’ two most important priorities? (Select all that apply.)

a. Establishing school nursing to improve care of children
b. Engaging in political activity to improve living conditions
c. Giving superb clinical bedside care in the home
d. Increasing funding to public health efforts
e. Teaching family members how to care for their family
f.
Working with the community to confront health issues and poverty

ESSAYBID ANSWER

ANS: B, F
Neither administering bedside clinical nursing nor teaching family members to deliver care in the home has adequately addressed the true determinants of health and disease. The early public health nurses resolved that collective political activity should focus on improving social and environmental conditions such as poverty.