When reviewing the concepts of health, the nurse recalls that the components of holistic health include which of these?
a. Disease originates from the external environment.
b. The individual human is a closed system.
c. Nurses are responsible for a patient's health state.
d. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent.
ANS: D
Consideration of the whole person is the essence of holistic health, which views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent. The basis of disease originates from both the external environment and from within the person. Both the individual human and the external environment are open systems, continually changing and adapting, and each person is responsible for his or her own personal health state.
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