Community-based nursing is. the application of the nursing process in caring for indi-. viduals and families in communitysettings. The focus of. community-based nursing is illness-oriented care of indi-. viduals and families throughout their life cycle.
A thermocline (sometimes metalimnion in lakes) is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid (e.g. water, such as an ocean or lake, or air, such as an atmosphere) in which temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below.
For the use of ocean thermoclines to generate energy, see Ocean thermal energy conversion. Graph showing a tropical ocean thermocline (depth vs. temperature). Note the rapid change between 100 and 1000 meters. The temperature is nearly constant after 1500 meters depth. Graph of different thermoclines (depth vs. temperature) based on seasons and latitude.