Exam 2: Patient Teaching and Health Literacy

The nurse is teaching an elderly man who has hearing challenges.What is the best way to help this patient meet those challenges?

The term concordance is sometimes preferred over compliance or noncompliance when speaking of a patient following a prescribed plan of care for which reason?

Which are basic reasons a treatment plan may be ineffective? (Select all that apply.)

Before educating a patient about his discharge medications,the nurse should do what?

The nurse is teaching a patient from a general teaching plan that has been set up for all patients with type 2 diabetes.What should be the nurse's first consideration if this patient is unable to perform her blood glucose test without assistance?

When giving the patient key written information about his discharge,the nurse will include which of the following?

The nurse is planning the teaching/learning objectives for a patient who comes into the clinic to learn about hormonal therapy and is experiencing stress.What will help the patient's learning process?

A patient is a newly diagnosed diabetic who has been incorrectly taking the medication prescribed.Which is the most likely reason?

Poor literacy is a problem that interferes with a patient's ability to deal with the health care setting.What can contribute to a patient's literacy problems?

There are three patients in the class the nurse is teaching about insulin injections.Two of the patients have demonstrated the ability to draw up and inject the insulin correctly.One patient has problems drawing up the insulin and injecting the medication after it is in the syringe.Which represents the next step the nurse could take to meet this patient's learning needs?

A patient comes into the clinic and is started on a new antihypertensive medication.In the past,this patient has not been taking the medication on a daily basis as per the drug treatment plan.Which strategy should the nurse use to get the patient to take the prescribed medication?

The nurse is teaching a patient about blood pressure control along with diet and weight reduction.How will the nurse be reassured that the patient understands this learning session?

Which efforts suggested by researchers in patient education are useful for nurses to follow to increase a patient's medication compliance?

The LPN is teaching a patient about the side effects of his hypertension medication.Research has shown that the nurse should tell the patient about all the side effects of this medication for which reason?

A patient begins medication therapy for hypertension.Which reason is most likely to make the scheduled teaching plan change for this patient?

The nurse needs to teach a patient about the side effects of a medication she is taking.By what means will the nurse know whether the patient has learned the information she needs to know about her medication?

The nurse is teaching the patient an activity the patient needs to learn by the time this teaching session is over.Which objectives for this patient clarify that learning has taken place?

What are essential steps in the patient-teaching process? (Select all that apply.)

Health literacy is a problem for which reasons? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is teaching a patient with a new diagnosis of hypothyroidism.The patient is anxious and fears gaining weight with this condition.Which of the following would help this patient's learning process?