While assessing your patient, you know to identify health patterns and if these health patterns are achieving their goals. If you find that the patient's health patterns are not achieving their goals, then what are you, as the nurse, obligated to do?

Question

A) Seek ways to promote balance.
B) Create an opportunity for social balance.
C) Identify alternative forms of care.
D) Provide insight into the physiologic failings of the system.

Answer 1

Ans: A
Feedback: The nurse has a significant role and responsibility in identifying the health patterns of the patient receiving care. If those patterns are not achieving physiologic, psychological, and social balance, the nurse is obligated, with the assistance and agreement of the patient, to seek ways to promote balance. The nurse is not obligated to create an opportunity for social balance, identify alternative forms of care, or provide insight into the physiologic failings of the system if the patient's health patterns are not achieving their goals.