A nurse is implementing a secondary prevention strategy. Which of the following activities would the nurse most likely implement?
a. Monitoring for prenatal care
b. Treatment for anemia
c. HIV prevention
d. Tetanus immunization
ANS: A
Monitoring for prenatal care is an example of a secondary prevention strategy. Treatment for anemia is tertiary prevention, and HIV prevention and tetanus immunization are primary preven-tion strategies.
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