Patient Education

Question 1

The right to obtain complete, current, and understandable info about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis is an example of what?

Answer 1

The Patient Bill of Rights

Question 2

“RN practice means…care, counsel, and health teaching of ill, injured, or infirm”
This is an example of what?

Answer 2

The Nurse Practice Act (Scope of Practice)

Question 3

Where are the requirements for nurses to teach found in?

Answer 3

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

Question 4

What are two things that client education must include according to JCAHO?

Answer 4

Evidence patients + significant others participate in care & decision making

Evidence that client’s understand what they’ve been taught

Question 5

According to the JCAHO, a nurse must consider a client’s:

Answer 5

Literacy Level
Educational Background
Language Skills (English-Speaking? Comprehension?)
Culture

Question 6

What are the 3 requirements for a nurse to teach?

Answer 6

1. Assess the PT’s learning needs, abilities, and readiness to learn.
2. Use standards that require nurses to educate clients on meds.
3. Have evidence that the PT understands what they’ve been taught.

Question 7

The Joint Commission’s Speak Up programs helps patients with what?

Answer 7

Understanding their rights

Question 8

SPEAK UP. What does the S in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 8

Speak up and ask questions

Question 9

SPEAK UP. What does the first P in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 9

Pay attention to the care you receive

Question 10

SPEAK UP. What does the E in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 10

Educate yourself about your illness

Question 11

SPEAK UP. What does the A in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 11

Ask a trusted friend/ family member to be your advocate

Question 12

SPEAK UP. What does the K in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 12

Know which med you take & why you take them

Question 13

SPEAK UP. What does the U in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 13

Use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare that you’ve researched

Question 14

SPEAK UP. What does the last letter in this abbreviation stand for?

Answer 14

Participate in the decisions about your treatment

Question 15

What are the 3 types of people that nurses teach?

Answer 15

Clients & Families
The Community
Other Health Personnel

Question 16

What does informal teaching mean whenever teaching a patient or client?

Answer 16

Any teaching done with client care (How much to drink, dose of medication, etc.)

Question 17

What does formal teaching mean whenever teaching a patient or client?

Answer 17

Teaching a group of clients

Question 18

What does informal teaching mean whenever teaching a health team member?

Answer 18

When a nurse notices an error in procedure, the peer that messed up requires further instruction

Question 19

What does formal teaching mean whenever teaching healthcare personnel?

Answer 19

Nurses in educator roles at hospital (computer class training for example)

Question 20

Whenever teaching the community, name two things that you’d teach individuals at home

Answer 20

Wound Care, IV Care

Question 21

Whenever teaching the community, name three things that you’d teach groups in the community?

Answer 21

CPR Classes
Nutrition to Senior Citizens
Screening

Question 22

What is cognitive learning?

Answer 22

Thinking/ Understanding
All about Knowledge

Question 23

What is affective learning?

Answer 23

Feeling/ Attitudes
All about the Interpersonal stuff.

Question 24

What is psychomotor learning?

Answer 24

Motor Skills
All about Performance

Question 25

What is the mode to transmit cognitive knowledge?

Answer 25

Lecture, discussion, short-answer exercises

Question 26

What is the mode to transmit affective learning?

Answer 26

Role play, reflection, one-on-one discussion

Question 27

What is the mode to transmit psychomotor learning?

Answer 27

Demonstration, practice, return demonstration (teach back method), independent projects, games

Question 28

What is Bloom’s taxonomy from bottom to top?

Answer 28

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create

Question 29

What are the barriers to learning?

Answer 29

Illness, pain, negative emotions

Developmental factors, if not integrated into teaching

Cultural beliefs

Psychomotor ability

Question 30

Name 5 learning theories

Answer 30

Cognitive Dissonance
Health Belief Model
Transtheoretical Model of Change
Self-efficacy
Health promotion

Question 31

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 31

Conflicting Beliefs
(Ex: Smoking, people smoke knowing it’s bad for them)

Question 32

What is the Health Belief Model?

Answer 32

Model used to guide health promotion and disease prevention programs

Question 33

What is the Transtheoretical Model of Change?

Answer 33

Model noting the 6 stages of change (For Ex: Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, etc.)

Question 34

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 34

A person’s belief in their capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific results

Question 35

What is the learning theory of health promotion?

Answer 35

A learning theory that considers individual behavior and directs the design of intervention strategies to influence behavior change

(For ex: Passive prevention, active prevention, secondary prevention, etc.)

Question 36

High anxiety is a-

Answer 36

Barrier to learning

Question 37

Mild anxiety is a-

Answer 37

Stimulus to learning

Question 38

What are the 6 steps of the teaching process?

Answer 38

Identify a need for info
Establish learning objectives
The nurse conveys info
The PT learns the info
They provide feedback
Evaluate the success of the teaching plan

Question 39

All steps of the nursing process in order?

Answer 39

Assess
Analyze
Plan
Implement
Evaluation

Question 40

How do you determine a toddler’s/pre-schooler’s developmental level?

Answer 40

Observe HOW they play, with whom, and what skills they have

Question 41

School-age kids typically learn best through-

Answer 41

Psychomotor learning

Question 42

Adolescents typically learn best through

Answer 42

Affective learning (or affective domain, whatever you wanna call it)

Question 43

What is typically useful to help older adults learn?

Answer 43

Large print is typically useful

Question 44

What’s the name of the calculation used to reach the index on any work?

Answer 44

The fog index

Question 45

What’s the “ideal” FOG index level?

Answer 45

7 or 8

Question 46

What does the ASL stand for in the FOG index?

Answer 46

Average sentence length

Question 47

What does the NLW stand for in the FOG index?

Answer 47

Number of long words

Question 48

How many syllables does a word need to be considered a long word in the FOG Index?

Answer 48

3 syllables

Question 49

How do you get the ASL in the FOG index?

Answer 49

Divide the number of words (typically 100) and divide by the number of sentences

Question 50

Noncompliance shouldn’t be used with caution

True or False?

Answer 50

False

Question 51

What are 3 verbs for the cognitive domain?

Answer 51

Describes, lists, explains

Question 52

What are 3 verbs for the affective domain?

Answer 52

Discuss, shares, initiates

Question 53

What are 3 verbs for the psychomotor domain?

Answer 53

Calculates, demonstrates, measures

Question 54

What’s a SMART goal?

Answer 54

Specific
Measurable
Attainable/ achievable
Realistic
Timed

Question 55

Bloom’s taxonomy of objectives is used to do what?

Answer 55

Make objectives:
Clear and specific.
Observable, measurable, and achievable.
An application of major knowledge, skill, and/or attitude.
Reflect skills needed in the professional field and real-world context.