When a patient is first diagnosed with a disease, education should start with which of the following?
a. Describing what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen
b. Determining why the problem took so long to develop
c. Deciding who caused this problem
d. Discussing what the patient should have done differently
ANS: A
When a patient is first diagnosed with a problem, education must start with what has gone wrong and what is likely to happen.
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