The goal of the health care team is best described as
a. restoring optimal physical, emotional, and spiritual health to patients.
b. preventing communicable diseases.
c. selecting health care professionals who serve people with health care needs.
d. attaining personal satisfaction of the need to help others.
ANS: A
Restoring optimal physical, emotional, and spiritual health to patients is a frequently used statement that describes the goal of health care. Prevention of communicable diseases is a narrow statement and does not best describe the goal of the health care team. The remaining options are not goals of the health care team.
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