Compare the differences between predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors as they relate to behavior change.
What will be an ideal response?
Predisposing factors are preexisting factors that influence health behavior such as heredity, culture, age, biological sex, past experience, beliefs, values, and attitudes. Enabling factors are the factors, including knowledge, skills, abilities, and available resources, that make it easier for an individual to change a health behavior. Reinforcing factors are internal or external factors that either encourage or discourage a new behavior.
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a. a willingness to submit your own beliefs to scrutiny b. creativity c. a willingness to challenge the opinions of others d. objectivity
The physician ordered the medication to be administered tid. The nurse will administer the medication how often?
A. four times a day B. daily C. twice a day D. three times a day
The thymus is no longer producing thymosin. The health care provider would expect to see a decrease in the number of: ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The IOM estimates that more than ____ people die each year from medication errors alone.
A. 3000 B. 4000 C. 5000 D. 6000