Exam 14: Health Literacy and Patient Education

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?

The nurse is to teach an 84-year-old Spanish-speaking patient newly diagnosed with diabetes how to self-administer insulin. The patient has hearing and visual impairments. To be effective as a teacher, the nurse should carry out which tasks?

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

On completion of assessment, a nursing diagnosis relevant to the educational needs of the patient or caregiver can be determined. The nurse recognizes that diagnoses specifically related to patient education include which responses?

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?

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

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

According to the Healthy People 2020 initiative, health information and the associated access issues have become more complicated. There are many considerations when determining whether an individual has proficient health literacy. The nurse acknowledges that the patient should be able to do what actions?

When teaching children, the nurse should include which concepts?

In addressing patient education, the nurse recognizes that patient education is a process involving what components?

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?

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?

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

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?

The nurse must provide patient education to a patient who has just been given the diagnosis of stage III cancer. The patient is complaining of chest and bone discomfort. Before providing the needed education, the nurse will complete which tasks?

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

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

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

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

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