The Nurse Uses a Diagram to Demonstrate How Dunn's Theory

question 30

Multiple Choice

The nurse uses a diagram to demonstrate how Dunn's theory of health and illness can be compared with a:

• A) plant that grows from a seed, blossoms, wilts, and dies.
• B) continuum, with peak wellness and death at opposite ends; the person moves back and forth in a dynamic state of change.
• C) ladder; from birth to death the individual moves progressively downward a ladder to eventual death.
• D) state of mind dependent on the individual perception of their own health or illness.

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