A major goal of home health care nurses working with families is:
1. Maximizing the dependency of the child on the family.
2. Curing the chronic illness of the child.
3. Prescribing and administering medication needed by the child.
4. Promoting or restoring the child's health.
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Rationale 1: The home health care nurse encourages children to learn to function as independently as possible.
Rationale 2: The nurse's role in home health care is to provide nursing care for the child, not to cure the child's chronic illness.
Rationale 3: The nurse might assist in medication administration for the child but would not prescribe the needed medication.
Rationale 4: A major goal of working with families in the home health care setting includes promoting or restoring the child's health while attempting to minimize the effects of the disability and illness, including terminal illness.
Global Rationale:
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