ATI Community Health Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions

What are community health nurses concerned with? Correct Answer-protecting, promoting, preserving and maintaining health, as well as preventing disease. How should community nurses use their resources. Correct Answer-Must benefit the greatest number of citizens. What is epidemiology? Correct Answer-invenstigative study of disease trends in populations to prevent disease and maintain health. The agent Correct Answer-animate or inanimate object that causes the disease. (bacteria, virus, pesticide, food additive, etc.) The host Correct Answer-living being that is affected by the agent. (human or animal). The environment Correct Answer-the setting or surrounding that sustains the host (place of transmission: daycare, body of water, country