Which nursing action best represents primary prevention?
a. Instructing a healthy individual to get a flu shot on a yearly basis
b. Instructing a patient to take blood pressure medication every day
c. Instructing a patient to live with a known disability
d. Instructing a patient to undergo physical therapy following a cerebrovascular accident
A
A healthy individual getting a flu shot is primary prevention. Primary prevention precedes disease or disability or dysfunction. Primary prevention aimed at health promotion includes health education programs, immunizations, and physical and nutritional fitness activities. Taking blood pressure medication every day is a secondary prevention because the patient is trying to prevent further complications. Physical therapy after a cerebrovascular accident is intended to prevent further complications and deterioration and is tertiary prevention. Instructing a patient to live with a known disability is tertiary prevention.
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