A comparison of the nursing and medical models of care shows that:
a. nurses assess disease states and causes.
b. physicians assess risk factors and vulnerability.
c. nursing intervention focuses on curative treatments.
d. nursing diagnoses focus on the effectiveness of coping responses.
D
Nursing diagnosis is concerned with the adaptive/maladaptive continuum of human responses; medical diagnosis is concerned with the health/illness continuum of health problems. Nurses assess risk factors and look for vulnerabilities; physicians assess disease states and look for causes. Nursing intervention consists of caregiving activities; medical intervention consists of curative treatments.
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