A nurse is performing the admission assessment of a patient whose high body mass index (BMI) corresponds to class III obesity. In order to ensure empathic and patient-centered care, the nurse should do which of the following?
A) Examine one's own attitudes towards obesity in general and the patient in particular.
B) Dialogue with the patient about the lifestyle and psychosocial factors that resulted in obesity.
C) Describe one's own struggles with weight gain and weight loss to the patient.
D) Elicit the patient's short-term and long-term goals for weight loss.
Ans: A
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Studies suggest that health care providers, including nurses, harbor negative attitudes towards obese patients. Nurses have a responsibility to examine these attitudes and change them accordingly. This is foundational to all other areas of assessing this patient.
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