Most health promotion programs involve lifestyle behavioral changes. The person has decided to try and change a behavior and is ready for information and skills to maintain the behavioral change
The nurse would document this in which stage of the change process?
A) Contemplation
B) Preparation
C) Action
D) Maintenance
Ans: B
Preparation: A person at this stage has decided to try to change a behavior(s). This employee desires help in making the change and is ready for information and skills to maintain the behavioral change.
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Strategies that the nurse can employ to ameliorate this concern include: (Select all that apply.) 1. Demanding that the food staff eliminate all fried foods. 2. Working with the food staff on menu planning and including healthier choices. 3. Presenting programs to the students about nutrition and healthy choices. 4. Presenting programs to families at parent-teaching association (PTA) meetings about school nutrition. 5. Assigning mandatory exercise programs to all students whose BMI's are considered overweight.
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a. Additive effect b. Antagonistic effect c. Synergistic effect d. Drug interaction
The practical/vocational nursing student tells a colleague, "I know I'm going to fail the NCLEX-PN examination. I've heard that a huge amount of the examination is psychology related, and I hated psychology!"
The reply that shows the best understanding of the NCLEX-PN examination is a. "You'd better retake the psychology course." b. "There are equal numbers of questions related to each aspect of patient needs." c. "Psychosocial integrity is the basis for 8% to 14% of the questions." d. "I've heard there's more emphasis on care planning than anything else."