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.
The thermocline is the transition layer between the mixed layer at the surface and the deep water layer. The definitions of these layers are based on temperature.The mixed layer is near the surface where the temperature is roughly that of surface water.In the thermocline, the temperature decreases rapidly from the mixed layer temperature to the much colder deep water temperature.The mixed layer and the deep water layer are relatively uniform in temperature, while the thermocline represents the transition zone between the two.he mixed layer is near the surface where the temperature is roughly that of surface water. In the thermocline, the temperature decreases rapidly from the mixed layer temperature to the much colder deep water temperature.