A nurse wishes to volunteer in a tertiary health care activity. What activity would the nurse choose?
a. Teaching about safer sexual behaviors
b. Greeting women at an emergency preg-nancy clinic
c. Assisting women who are having radiation therapy
d. Finding home health safety resources
C
Tertiary prevention aims to care for established disease. Helping women having radiation therapy for cancer would fall into this realm. Teaching is primary prevention. The emergency pregnancy clinic is secondary prevention. Home safety is primary prevention.
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