Using the health promotion model while rendering care enables a nurse to do which of the following? Select all that apply
A. Encourage wellness in the patient.
B. Detect the presence of illness.
C. Promote health behaviors.
D. Assess a family's response to illness.
E. Plan interventions that can assist a patient with achieving self-actualization.
A, C
This model focuses on the individual and does not include assessing a family's response to illness. Self-actualization is the final stage in Maslow's hierarchy. Both encouraging wellness and promoting health behaviors are within a health promotion model.
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