A nurse meets the following goals: helps a patient maintain health and helps a patient with an illness. Which factors assist the nurse in achieving these goals? (Select all that apply.)
a. Understands the challenges of today's health care system
b. Identifies actual and potential risk factors
c. Has coined the term "illness behavior"
d. Minimizes the effects of illnesses
e. Experiences compassion fatigue
ANS: A, B, D
Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in achieving and maintaining optimal levels of health. Nurses understand the challenges of today's health care system. Nurses can identify actual and potential risk factors that predispose a person or group to illness. Nurses who understand how patients react to illness can minimize the effects of illness and assist patients and their families in maintaining or returning to the highest level of functioning. Nurses did not coin the phrase "illness behavior." While nurses can experience compassion fatigue, it does not help in meeting patient goals.
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