A community health nurse is working with disaster relief following a tornado. The nurse’s goal for the community is to prevent as much injury and death as possible form the uncontrollable event

A community health nurse is working with disaster relief following a tornado. The nurse’s goal for the community is to prevent as much injury and death as possible form the uncontrollable event. Finding safe housing for survivors, providing support to families, organizing counseling, and securing physical care when needed are all examples of which type of prevention?
a. Primary level of prevention
b. Secondary level of prevention
c. Tertiary level of prevention
d. Aggregate care prevention

Answer C. Tertiary prevention involves the reduction of the amount and degree of disability, injury, and damage following a crisis.
Primary prevention means keeping the crisis from occurring, and secondary prevention focuses on reducing the intensity and duration of a crisis during the crisis itself.
There is no known aggregate care prevention level.