You are assessing an older adult patient post-myocardial infarction. You attempt to identify your patients health patterns and to assess if these health patterns are achieving the patients goals. How should you best respond if it is found that the patients health patterns are not achieving their goals?

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The nurse has a significant role and responsibility in identifying the health patterns of the patient receiving care. If those patterns are not achieving physiologic, psychological, and social balance, the nurse is obligated, with the assistance and agreement of the patient, to seek ways to promote balance. The nurse is not obligated to refer to social work, identify alternative forms of care, or provide insight into the physiologic failings of the system if the patients health patterns are not achieving their goals.

You Are Assessing an Older Adult Patient Post-Myocardial Infarction