Because young adults are less likely to experience serious illness, which of the following nursing interventions is most effective in determining risk for illness in this age-group?
1. Health screenings
2. Personal lifestyle assessment
3. Full body systems assessment
4. Cardiopulmonary focal assessment
ANS: 2
A personal lifestyle assessment (see Chapter 6) helps nurses and clients identify habits that in-crease the risk for cardiac, malignant, pulmonary, renal, or other chronic diseases. Health screen-ing helps detect the presence of disease processes. Full body systems assessment would deter-mine deviation from normal but not necessarily identify risk for illness. Cardiopulmonary focal assessment would determine deviation from normal but not necessarily identify risk for illness.
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