Chapter 25: Patient Education

A patient needs to learn to use a walker. Which domain is required for learning this skill?

Psychomotor domain

A patient newly diagnosed with cervical cancer is going home. The patient is avoiding discussion of her illness and postoperative orders. What is the nurse's best plan in teaching this patient?

Provide only the information that the patient needs to go home

The school nurse is about to teach a freshman-level high school health class about nutrition. What is the best instructional approach to ensure that the students meet the learning outcomes?

Develop topics for discussion that require problem solving

A nurse is going to teach a patient how to perform breast self-examination. Which behavioral objective does the nurse set to best measure the patient's ability to perform the examination?

The patient will perform breast self-examination correctly on herself before the end of the teaching session.

A patient with chest pain is having an emergency cardiac catheterization. Which teaching approach does the nurse use in this situation?

Telling approach

The nurse is teaching a parenting class to a group of pregnant adolescents. The nurse pretends to be the baby's father, and the adolescent mother is asked to show how she would respond to the father if he gave her a can of beer. Which teaching approach di

Role play

An older adult is being started on a new antihypertensive medication. In teaching the patient about the medication, the nurse:
himself or herself and ask questions.

Allows the patient time to express himself or herself and ask questions.

A patient needs to learn how to administer a subcutaneous injection. Which of the following reflects that the patient is ready to learn?

Expressing the importance of learning the skill correctly

A patient who is hospitalized has just been diagnosed with diabetes. He is going to need to learn how to give himself injections. Which teaching method does the nurse use?

Demonstration

When a nurse is teaching a patient about how to administer an epinephrine injection in case of a severe allergic reaction, he or she tells the patient to hold the injection like a dart. Which of the following instructional methods did the nurse use?

Analogy

A nurse needs to teach a young woman newly diagnosed with asthma how to manage her disease. Which of the following topics does the nurse teach first?

How to use an inhaler during an asthma attack

A nurse is teaching a group of young college-age women the importance of using sunscreen when going out in the sun. What type of content is the nurse providing?

Health promotion and illness prevention

A nurse is planning a teaching session about healthy nutrition with a group of children who are in first grade. The nurse determines that after the teaching session the children will be able to name three examples of foods that are fruits. This is an exam

A learning objective.

A nurse is teaching a 27-year-old gentleman how to adjust his insulin dosages based on his blood sugar results. What type of learning is this?

Cognitive