What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era would need to address in order to promote health?
1.
Reducing spread of infection
2.
Reducing sedentary lifestyle
3.
Teaching proper use of medications
4.
Teaching use of car seats
ANS: 1
Many deaths resulted from communicable diseases and lack of cleanliness in hospitals, so the nurse's priority concern with health promotion would be reducing the spread of infection.
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