The nurse is teaching a premenopausal client about dietary and lifestyle modifications that can reduce the risk factors for developing pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The nurse is describing which type of prevention?

The nurse is describing a primary prevention.

Explanation:

A Primary prevention aims to prevent the occurrence of disease or injury in individuals.

This is carried out by preventing exposures of clients to factors that cause disease or altering unhealthy behaviours that can elicits disease.

Thus, the nurse is practicing primary prevention pattern by teaching his or her client about the behaviors that can help deter the occurrence of a disease (pelvic organ prolapse).

Primary prevention

Explanation:

Primary prevention is aimed at preventing the onset of a disease before the disease occurs. This type of prevention aims to prevent an injury or disease before occurrence. In other to achieve this, certain interventions are applied in other to prevent exposure to hazardous elements that can cause the development of a disease.

For example, the avoidance of some unhealthy foods  or the intake of some  healthy are usually encouraged in other to prevent the onset or the manifestation of some diseases.

Therefore, the nurse is describing primary prevention