Your client has the diagnosis Ineffective health maintenance. Your nursing interventions will include which of the following?
1. providing health education and counseling for prevention of health risks
2. encouraging the client's family to demand that the client change the high-risk behavior
3. giving the client health information about the dangers associated with the high-risk behavior
4. encouraging the client to attend a support group to receive support for changing the high-risk behavior
ANS: 1
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