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The purpose of the nurse-training course is to train people to work in a health care agency. The health care agencies deal with health promotion, disease prevention, detection and treatment of disease, and rehabilitation. Health promotion deals with the person’s physical and mental well being. Things included with this is diet, exercise, and unhealthy habits like: smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. People are also taught how to cope with their certain illness they have to live with day to day. Disease prevention is detecting signs of certain disease before they become serious problems. It deals with the persons life-style and if not dealt with in the early stages can cause problems down the road. The detection and the treatment are done through tests, examinations. When some certain disease is detected only then can it be treated with the appropriate medicine to prevent death or further illness. Usually after someone goes through all of this the health care team will send them to be rehab. This is to get them to their highest level of functioning. This gives the person time to learn certain things he/she might have forgotten or not know about the disease. It helps to go to rehabilitation for a complete treatmen