A nurse is working with an older individual who has recently started an exercise program. The individual tells the nurse, "This exercise thing is really hard, and I absolutely hate walking on a treadmill going nowhere
I think I am going to call it quits." Which of the following responses by the nurse will be most effective in encouraging the individual to remain in the program?
a. "If you stop exercising, you will reverse all the good effects that the exercise accom-plished."
b. "I will have to report that to your physi-cian."
c. "What types of exercise do you enjoy do-ing?"
d. "Most older people hate exercising, but they do it anyways."
ANS: C
Providing choices, as well as making exercise fun and entertaining, is a strategy to sustain partic-ipation in an exercise program. Options A, B, and D do not address the patient's issue of not lik-ing a particular type of exercise.
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