The nurse works in a facility that provides hospice care for clients with cancer diagnoses. The nurse recognizes that the care provided in this facility is tertiary in nature
The nurse develops a plan for the clients that would include the tenets of tertiary prevention. The plan would include: (Select all that apply.)
A) Palliative care
B) Pain control
C) Isolation
D) Supportive spiritual development
E) Diminished involvement of significant others
Ans: A, B, D
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Tertiary prevention includes rehabilitation and palliative care. Nurses providing this level of care assess disease progression, watch for opportunistic infections, and control pain or other side effects of treatment. Care also includes supporting life choices that bring emotional comfort to clients such as family involvement, decreased isolation, supportive spiritual development, and organized help from communities. Isolation and diminished involvement of significant others do not enhance the client's health and well-being and are not examples of tertiary prevention.
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