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.
as the pycnocline the thermocline is a prominent feature of the ocean which conditions many physical chemical and biological processes occurring in the oceanic upper layers in many situations the thermocline can be identified with the pycnocline when the vertical contrasts of salinity are small