A nurse is educating a patient's family on holistic nursing. The nurse judges the teaching as effective when the family states all of the following except:
a. "Holistic nursing is an attitude.".
b. "Holistic nursing is a way of being.".
c. "Holistic nursing focuses on healing the person as a whole.".
d. "Holistic nursing focuses on healing the system causing ailment.".
D
Holistic nursing is an attitude, a way of being and is focused on healing the person as a whole. It is not focused on the system causing the ailment.
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