You are a nurse hired as a consultant to develop health promotion activities for elderly patients in an assisted living facility.
What type of activities would the nurse develop? Activities that:

Structure measures give consumers a sense of a health care provider’s capacity, systems, and processes to provide high-quality care.

For example, the ratio of providers to patients.

Choice A: Process measures indicate what a provider does to maintain or improve health, either for healthy people or for those diagnosed with a health care condition.

Choice B: Dependent measures is not a type of measure used to assess and compare the quality of health care organizations.

Choice C: Outcome measures reflect the impact of the health care service or intervention on the health status of patients.

One of the best methods of assuring that a health promotion program is culturally appropriate is to involve members of the community in the planning and implementation process.

This can help ensure that the program is tailored to the specific needs and cultural values of the community it serves.

Choice B. Partnering with a nonprofit organization is incorrect because while it may be helpful, it does not necessarily ensure cultural appropriateness.

Choice C. Using governmental agencies as partners is incorrect because while it may be helpful, it does not necessarily ensure cultural appropriateness.

Choice D. Including a physician or a nurse on the planning committee is incorrect because while it may be helpful, it does not necessarily ensure cultural appropriateness.