The nurse is planning health promotion activities for a toddler-age child during a scheduled health maintenance visit. Which action by the nurse is appropriate during this visit?
1. Connecting developmental skills with risks for injury
2. Recognizing that childcare attendance increases the risk for communicable disease
3. Planning education for treatment of common disease processes
4. Illustrating developmental progression on a screening tool
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Explanation:
1. Connecting developmental skills with risks for injury is an action that prevents disease and injury. This is not a health promotion activity.
2. Recognizing that attendance at a daycare center increases the risk for communicable disease is an action that prevents disease and injury. This is not a health promotion activity.
3. Planning treatment for common disease processes is an action that prevents disease and injury. This is not a health promotion activity.
4. Illustrating developmental progression on a screening tool is a health promotion action.
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