Exam 12: Design and Implementation of Patient Education

The primary care NP is seeing a patient for a hospital follow-up after the patient has had a first myocardial infarction.The patient has a list of the prescribed medications and tells the NP that "no one explained anything about them." The NP's initial response should be to:

A primary care NP is developing a handout to give to patients who will begin self-administering insulin.When developing this handout,the NP should:

A patient who has recently developed prediabetic symptoms is overweight and has a sedentary lifestyle.The primary care NP has prescribed an oral antidiabetic agent.The patient says,"I suppose I'll need insulin like my mother and grandfather did." To educate this patient about managing this disease,the NP should initially:

A primary care NP is reviewing written information about a newly prescribed medication with a patient.To evaluate this patient's understanding of the information,the NP should ask the patient to:

A patient is diagnosed with asthma.The primary care nurse practitioner (NP)prescribes an inhaled corticosteroid and an inhaled bronchodilator medication and provides education about how to use inhalers.At a follow-up visit 2 weeks later,the patient's pulmonary function tests are worse.The NP should:

A patient who is newly diagnosed with hypertension is to begin taking two antihypertensive medications.The primary care NP gives the patient written drug information and starts to discuss medication side effects.The patient interrupts and says,"I don't want to know all that.Just tell me what to take and when." The NP should:

A patient brings written information about a medication to a primary care NP about a new drug called Prism and wants to know if the NP will prescribe it.The NP notes that the information is from an internet site called "Prism.com." The NP should tell this patient that: