Exam 4 Ch.14

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1. The nurse understands the unique ability of the patient to understand and integrate health-related knowledge is known by which term?

a. Health literacy

2. The patient is reportedly well educated and employed as an engineer but is struggling to comprehend terms found in health-related literature given to explain his disease process. The nurse recognizes that this is evidence of what issue?

d. Low health literacy

3. To teach effectively, nurses must recognize which concept?

b. Patients come from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

4. The nurse understands that as the health care community explores the concept of health literacy, many organizations recognize what concept?

b. Improvements are dependent on developing operational definitions.

5. The nurse is preparing to discharge a patient home. In providing instruction about the patient’s medications, the nurse should make which statement?

c. “Take 1 baby aspirin by mouth every morning.”

6. The nurse has established a teaching plan including goals and identifies this type of education is termed by what term?

a. Formal teaching

7. The nurse is admitting a patient who has cystic fibrosis. During the admission interview, it is apparent that the patient is well versed in most aspects of his illness. When asked about where he learned so much, the patient responds, “I learned most of it myself. I looked things up on the Internet and read books. You have to know what’s wrong with you to be sure that you’re being treated right.” The nurse knows this is an example of what type of education/learning?

c. Informal education

8. During patient teaching led by the nurse with goals established through cooperation of the nurse and patient, the patient asks questions as needed and the nurse answers. The nurse understands that this is what type of teaching?

c. Both formal and informal teaching

9. The nurse is implementing a patient teaching plan regarding diabetes mellitus. One of the short-term goals of the plan is that the patient will be able to verbalize three symptoms of hypoglycemia. The nurse recognizes that this is what type of teaching?

b. Cognitive teaching

10. The nurse is working with a diabetic patient and is attempting to teach psychomotor skills. This is occurring when the nurse has the patient complete what action?

d. Draw up and self-inject insulin correctly

11. The nurse is preparing to teach a patient for the first time and needs to evaluate the health literacy of the patient. The nurse uses the VARK assessment to gather what information?

a. Assess the learning styles of the patient.

12. The nurse is preparing to teach a 90-year-old patient. In teaching an elderly patient, the nurse realizes what information?

c. Sensory alterations often occur with aging.

13. The nurse identifies which patient would most likely need to have adjustments made to the education plan for discharge because of role function?

b. A 32-year-old single mother of a toddler following hysterectomy.

14. When the nurse is preparing to provide preoperative teaching to a deaf patient, what action by the nurse is best?

d. Provide an interpreter.

15. When the nurse is preparing to teach a 5-year-old child postoperative care that will be anticipated after a tonsillectomy, the nurse would incorporate what concept?

a. Use pictures and simple words to describe care to the patient.

16. The nurse is preparing a teaching plan and is applying evidence-based practice. To promote involvement, the nurse must include which concept?

b. Ensure that the patient understands relevant information.

17. In determining patient goals, the nurse should complete which action?

a. Allow patients to identify what is most important to them.

18. The nurse understands ongoing evaluation of patient education occurs by which team member?

a. Each member of the health care team who provides teaching

NUR 170 exam 4

V Farris · 50問 · 2年前

NUR 170 exam 4