A healthy 60-year-old African-American woman regularly receives health care at her neighborhood clinic.She is due for a mammogram.At her first visit,her health care provider is concerned about the 3-week wait at the neighborhood clinic and made an appointment for her to have a mammogram at a teaching hospital across town.She did not keep her appointment and returned to the clinic today to have the nurse check her blood pressure.What is the most appropriate statement for the nurse to make to this client?

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Option D is the most appropriate statement for the nurse to make to this client. As the client did not keep her appointment at the teaching hospital, it is important for the nurse to suggest an alternative option that is convenient for the client, such as having the mammogram done at the neighborhood clinic. It is also important to encourage the client to have the mammogram done and not skip it, but option C may come across as accusatory and may not be well-received by the client. Option A assumes that transportation is the only issue, which may not be the case, and option B may not address the underlying reason why the client missed her appointment.

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