The nurse can best instruct a client to avoid the acquisition of hookworm by
a. advising the client not to eat raw pork products.
b. advising the client to drink only bottled water when traveling.
c. encouraging the client to wear shoes outdoors.
d. teaching the client good hand-washing technique.
C
Hookworm eggs are shed in feces, but hookworm larvae enter through the skin of a person walking barefoot in soil containing hatched eggs. Knowledge of the portal of entry for this or-ganism is a health promotion measure.
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