A Patient Has Not Followed Up with Recommendations Made by the Nurse

question 4

Multiple Choice

A patient has not followed up with recommendations made by the nurse to participate in cardiac rehabilitation after a myocardial infarction.What factors are most important for the nurse to assess in determining the cause of this behavior? (Select all that apply. )

• A)Out-of-pocket costs
• B)Transportation problems
• C)Beliefs about the benefits
• D)Location of the clinic
• E)Ethnicity of providers

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Definitions:

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctual behaviors that interfere with learned behavior from conditioning.

Negative Reinforcement

A process in behaviorism where a response increases because a negative condition is stopped or avoided as a consequence of the response.

Salient

Being most noticeable or important; prominently standing out.

Stimuli

Environmental factors or changes that elicit a response from an organism or part of the body.