A nurse has decided to focus on educating the community about health promotion and wellness. Which activity would the nurse dismiss as not being relevant to health promotion and wellness?
1. Initiating prenatal and infant care
2. Holding classes on prevention of sexually transmitted disease
3. Implementing an exercise class for clients who have had a stroke
4. Teaching a class about home accident prevention
4. Implementing an exercise class for clients who have had a stroke
Rationale:
Teaching clients about recovery activities, such as exercises that accelerate recovery after a stroke, would fall under the category of health restoration, not health promotion. Wellness is a process that engages in activities and behaviors that enhance quality of life and maximize personal potential. This involves individual and community activities to enhance healthy lifestyles such as improving nutrition and physical fitness, preventing drug and alcohol misuse, restricting smoking, and preventing accidents in the home and workplace. The goal of illness prevention is to maintain optimal health by preventing disease—which would include immunization, prenatal and infant care, and prevention of sexually transmitted disease.
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