Which of the following actions is most representative of how health care of the future might be delivered? As a nurse leader,you
A) refer families who require immediate help to a local food bank. You also work with local agencies and families to establish a mothers' collective in which mothers learn about nutrition and prepare low-cost, nutritious meals that are shared with the mothers in the collective.
B) work together with a local agency to set up a free clinic in which addicts and the homeless can receive free health care and prescriptions for immediate needs.
C) ensure that individuals who are admitted to your unit are asked about their smoking history and that preoperative and postoperative planning takes into account how smoking will affect status during and after surgery.
D) address the health of patients who are overweight and obese on your unit by ensuring that hospital meals offer nutritious, healthy food choices that are satisfying.

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Referral to a food bank addresses an immediate need; teaching mothers about nutrition and engaging them in preparation of low-cost,healthy meals provides nutrition while promoting longer-term changes in healthy eating.Of responses offered,this response best exemplifies the need in the future to retain a focus on the immediate needs of patients and patients while capitalizing on an opportunity to take longer term issues into consideration.This response also exemplifies one of the six leadership strengths for the future: thinking for the long term,acting for the short term.

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