A community/public health nurse is teaching a family about how to care for an ill member of the family. Upon which family member should the nurse focus on teaching?
a. Teach the family member with the most resilience and competence to do what must be done to ensure that it gets done.
b. Teach the ill member what must be done because he or she is responsible for his or her own care.
c. Teach the weakest family member what must be done because that will strengthen his or her position in the family.
d. Teach the wife or mother what must be done because caring for others is a female role and expectation.
ANS: A
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