Chapter 6

Question 1

Patient Education: Implementation

Answer 1

• teaching-learning strategies
• consideration of age-related changes
• consideration of language barriers
• safe administration of medications at home
• for adults, it is recommended that materials be written at an 8th grade level

Question 2

When does discharge planning begin?

Answer 2

Upon admission

Question 3

Patient education: evaluation

Answer 3

• validate whether learning has occred
• ask questions
• have the patient provide a return demonstration
• behavior, such as compliance and adherence to a schedule
• occurrence of few or no complications

Question 4

The nurse is caring for an 85-year-old patient in the hospital and teaching him how to use an inhaler. His 84-year-old wife attends the teaching sessions, and their daughter comes in to visit in the evenings. The patient is having trouble remembering the steps. The nurse should

a. provide the package insert that comes with the medication for the patient to read.
b. focus the teaching sessions on the patient’s wife.
c. provide small amounts of information at a time, repeating information frequently.
d. wait until the daughter comes in and teach the daughter instead.

Answer 4

C.

Question 5

A patient with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus has completed a diabetes education program. One month later, the patient confesses at a follow-up appointment that he “just didn’t feel like” giving himself the insulin injections. Which nursing diagnosis will the nurse assign the patient?

a. Deficient knowledge
b. Noncompliance
c. Impaired memory
d. Sleep deprivation

Answer 5

B.

Question 6

After providing education regarding medications to a patient who has been newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus, the nurse would use which part of the nursing process to assess whether the patient understands these new instructions?

a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation

Answer 6

D.

Question 7

Affective domain

Answer 7

the most intangible domain of the learning process. It involves affective behavior, which is conduct that expresses feelings, needs, beleifs, values, and opinions; the feeling domain

Question 8

Cognitive domain

Answer 8

the domain involved in the learning and storage of basic knowledge. It is the thinking portion of the learning process and incorporates an individual’s previous experiences and perceptions; the learning/thinking domain

Question 9

Psychomotor domain

Answer 9

the domain involved in the learning of a new procedure or skill; often called the doing domain