What is the most appropriate first step in health promotion, wellness education, and illness prevention activities?
A. Exploring available support groups
B. Identifying risk factors
C. Providing patient teaching
D. Implementing risk factor modification
B
A nurse must identify patient risk factors before proceeding with health promotion, wellness education, and illness prevention.
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a. Anxiety related to complications of hyperthyroidism b. Risk for injury related to potential for hypertensive crisis c. Imbalanced nutrition, less than body requirements d. Impaired swallowing related to goiter
A nurse is encouraging a client diagnosed with multiple sclerosis to engage in a regular exercise program. This recommendation is based on the knowledge that exercise will help the client manage: Select all that apply
1. Fatigue. 2. Muscle spasticity. 3. Constipation. 4. Infection exposure. 5. Obesity.
A nurse writes a cover letter to a potential employer. The nurse recognizes that one of the major components of a cover letter is that it should be:
a. one page in length b. a detailed commercial about yourself c. one to two pages in length d. started with a general salutation
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She constantly complains of feeling tired, and her vomiting is disgusting.". What is a priority for the nurse to do at this point? 1. Ask the woman what time of the day her fatigue is more common. 2. Recommend that the woman have a pregnancy test done as soon as possible. 3. Continue the interview of the woman in private. 4. Give the woman suggestions on ways to decrease the vomiting.