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To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care must be
Chapter 1
1.
The public health nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of new mothers. How should
the nurse best define health?
A)
Health is being disease free.
B)
Health is having fulfillment in all domains of life.
C)
Health is having psychological and physiological harmony.
D)
Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit.
Ans:
D
Feedback:
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health in the preamble to its constitution as a “state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.”
The other answers are incorrect because they are not congruent with the WHO definition of health.
2.
A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to be a nurse. What
is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A)
B) Ans:
C)
D)