Using the health promotion model while rendering care enables a nurse to do which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Help the patient pursue health.
b. Detect the presence of illness.
c. Promote health behaviors in a patient.
d. Assess a family's response to illness.
e. Plan interventions to achieve self-actualization.
A, C
The purpose of the health promotion model is to explain the reasons that individuals engage in health activities and is not for use with families or communities. You will use this model to help your patients carry out healthy behaviors in their daily lives. This model helps the patient pursue health. Self-actualization is the final stage in Maslow's hierarchy and does not relate to the health promotion model. This model does not focus on illness.
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