A patient with an immunodeficiency disease needs a lot of patient education to understand his or her disease process and to learn self-care for when they are at home. What areas of patient education do these patients need?
A) How to manage stress
B) Physiologic safety
C) Psychological stability
D) Healthy nutrition
E) How to strengthen immune system function
Ans: A, B, E
Feedback: Other aspects of nursing care include assisting the patient to manage stress, to incorporate lifelong patterns of physiologic safety, and to adopt behaviors that strengthen immune system function. Psychological stability and healthy nutrition are not education parameters at this time.
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