The nurse is most effectively using the concept of future time orientation when
a. promising to help the patient call his daughter each weekend.
b. offering to complete the health assessment history after the patient eats dinner.
c. encouraging an older patient to keep a follow-up clinic appointment.
d. arranging for a colorectal cancer screen for senior citizens.
D
In the concept of future orientation, people accept the idea that what is done now affects future health. This means that health screenings will help detect a problem today for potentially better health at a later time, days, weeks, or years ahead; it means that prevention may be worth pur-suing. The other actions do not show a future orientation.
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