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Metfan725 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A nurse meets the following goals: helps a patient maintain health and helps a patient with an illness. Which factors assist the nurse in achieving these goals? (Select all that apply.)

a. Understands the challenges of today's health care system
b. Identifies actual and potential risk factors
c. Has coined the term illness behavior
d. Minimizes the effects of illnesses
e. Experiences compassion fatigue

Question 2

A nurse is teaching about the transtheoretical model of change. In which order will the nurse place the progression of the stages from beginning to end?

1. Action
2. Preparation
3. Maintenance
4. Contemplation
5. Precontemplation
a. 5, 4, 2, 1, 3
b. 2, 5, 4, 3, 1
c. 4, 5, 3, 1, 2
d. 1, 5, 2, 3, 4

tanna.moeller · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A, B, D
Nurses are in a unique position to assist patients in achieving and maintaining optimal levels of health. Nurses understand the challenges of today's health care system. Nurses can identify actual and potential risk factors that predispose a person or group to illness. Nurses who understand how patients react to illness can minimize the effects of illness and assist patients and their families in maintaining or returning to the highest level of functioning. Nurses did not coin the phrase illness behavior. While nurses can experience compassion fatigue, it does not help in meeting patient goals.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
The stages of change in the transtheoretical model of change include five stages. These stages range from no intention to change (precontemplation), considering a change within the next 6 months (contemplation), making small changes (preparation), and actively engaging in strategies to change behavior (action), to maintaining a changed behavior (maintenance stage).