As a home health care nurse, you are visiting a 70-year-old client who has just returned home form the hospital after being treated for coronary artery disease. The medical nutrition therapy developed for him by the hospital dietitian is considered
a. palliative care
b. primary prevention
c. secondary prevention
d. tertiary prevention
Ans: d. tertiary prevention
Because the coronary artery disease already happened.
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