Nursing Education and Patient Teaching Strategies Worksheet

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A nurse is teaching first aid to counselors of a summer camp for children with asthma. This is an example of what aim of health teaching?

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Preventing illness

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A nurse is teaching a 50-year-old male patient how to care for his new ostomy appliance. Which teaching aid would be most appropriate to confirm that the patient has learned the information?

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Teach-back method

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A nurse is preparing to teach a patient with asthma how to use his inhaler. Which teaching method would be the BEST choice to teach the patient this skill?

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Demonstration

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A nurse has taught a patient with diabetes how to administer his daily insulin. How should the nurse evaluate the teaching–learning process?

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By deciding if the learning outcomes have been achieved

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A registered nurse assumes the role of nurse coach to provide teaching to patients who are recovering from a stroke. Which nursing intervention directly relates to this role?

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The nurse uses discovery to identify the patients’ personal goals and create an agenda that will result in change.

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A nurse is counseling a 19-year-old athlete who had his right leg amputated below the knee following a motorcycle accident. During the rehabilitation process, the patient refuses to eat or get up to ambulate on his own. He says to the nurse, “What’s the point. My life is over now, and I’ll never be the football player I dreamed of becoming.” What is the nurse counselor’s best response to this patient?

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I understand this is difficult for you. Would you like to talk about it now or would you prefer me to make a referral to someone else?

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A nurse is caring for a patient who is admitted to the hospital with injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. While he is in the hospital, his wife tells him that the bottom level of their house flooded, damaging their belongings. When the nurse enters his room, she notes that the patient is visibly upset. The nurse is aware that the patient will most likely need which type of counseling?

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Short-term situational

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A nurse forms a contractual agreement with a morbidly obese patient to achieve optimal weight goals. Which statement best describes the nature of this agreement?

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This agreement will motivate the two of us to do what is necessary to meet your weight goals.