NCLEX practice exam 4- 32 questions
and answers Patient Education.
1. A nurse is asked about the goal of patient education. What is
the nurse's best response? The goal of educating others is to help
people
a. Meet standards of the Nurse Practice Act.
b. Achieve optimal levels of health.
c. Become dependent on the health care team.
d. Provide self-care only in the hospital. - -ANS: B
The goal of educating others about their health is to help
individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of
health. Although all state Nurse Practice Acts acknowledge that
patient teaching falls within the scope of nursing practice, this is
the nurse's standard, not the goal of education. Patient education
helps patients make informed decisions about their care and
become healthier and more independent, not dependent. Nurses
provide patients with information needed for self-care to ensure
continuity of care from the hospital to the home.
-2. A nurse is teaching a group of healthy adults about the
benefits of flu immunizations. Which purpose of patient
education is the nurse fulfilling?
a. Restoration of health
b. Coping with impaired functions
c. Promotion of health and illness prevention
d. Health analogies - -ANS: C
As a nurse, you are a visible, competent resource for patients
who want to improve their physical and psychological well-being.
In the school, home, clinic, or workplace, you promote health and
prevent illness by providing information and skills that enable
patients to assume healthier behaviors. Injured and ill patients
need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their
level of health; this is referred to as restoration of health. Not all
patients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to learn
to cope with permanent health alterations; this is known as
coping with impaired functions. Analogies supplement verbal
,instruction with familiar images that make complex information
more real and understandable. For example, when explaining
arterial blood pressure, use an analogy of the flow of water
through a hose.
-3. A nurse provides teaching about coping with long-term
impaired functions. Which situation serves as the best example?
a. Teaching a family member to give medications through the
patient's permanent gastric tube
b. Teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her
pathology reports
c. Teaching expectant parents about physical and psychological
changes in childbearing women
d. Teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches - -
ANS: A
Not all patients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to
learn to cope with permanent health alterations. New knowledge
and skills are often necessary for patients and/or family members
to continue activities of daily living. Teaching family members to
help the patient with health care management (e.g., giving
medications through gastric tubes, doing passive range-of-motion
exercises) is an example of coping with long-term impaired
functions. Injured and ill patients need information and skills to
help them regain or maintain their levels of health. Some
examples of this include teaching a woman who recently had a
hysterectomy about her pathology reports and expected length of
recovery and teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use
crutches. In childbearing classes, you teach expectant parents
about physical and psychological changes in the woman and
about fetal development; this is part of health maintenance.
-4. Which statement indicates that the nurse has a good
understanding of teaching/learning?
a. "Teaching and learning can be separated."
b. "Learning is an interactive process that promotes teaching."
c. "Learning consists of a conscious, deliberate set of actions
designed to help the teacher."
, d. "Teaching is most effective when it responds to the learner's
needs." - -ANS: D
Teaching is most effective when it responds to the learner's
needs. It is impossible to separate teaching from learning.
Teaching is an interactive process that promotes learning.
Teaching consists of a conscious, deliberate set of actions that
help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt
new behaviors, or perform new skills.
-5. Which action best indicates that learning has occurred?
a. A nurse presents information about diabetes.
b. A patient demonstrates how to inject insulin.
c. A family member listens to a lecture on diabetes.
d. A primary care provider hands a diabetes pamphlet to the
patient. - -ANS: B
Learning is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge,
attitudes, behaviors, and skills. Complex patterns are required if
the patient is to learn new skills, change existing attitudes,
transfer learning to new situations, or solve problems. A new
mother exhibits learning when she demonstrates how to bathe
her newborn. A nurse presenting information and a primary care
provider handing a pamphlet to a patient are examples of
teaching. A family member listening to a lecture does not
indicate that learning occurred; a change in knowledge,
attitudes, behaviors, and/or skills must be evident.
-6. A nurse is teaching a patient about the Speak Up Initiatives.
Which information should the nurse include?
a. The nurse is the center of the health care team.
b. If you still do not understand, ask again.
c. Ask a nurse to be your advocate or supporter.
d. Inappropriate medical tests are the most common mistakes. -
-ANS: B
If you still do not understand, ask again is part of the S portion of
the Speak Up Initiatives. Speak up if you have questions or
concerns. You (the patient) are the center of the health care
and answers Patient Education.
1. A nurse is asked about the goal of patient education. What is
the nurse's best response? The goal of educating others is to help
people
a. Meet standards of the Nurse Practice Act.
b. Achieve optimal levels of health.
c. Become dependent on the health care team.
d. Provide self-care only in the hospital. - -ANS: B
The goal of educating others about their health is to help
individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of
health. Although all state Nurse Practice Acts acknowledge that
patient teaching falls within the scope of nursing practice, this is
the nurse's standard, not the goal of education. Patient education
helps patients make informed decisions about their care and
become healthier and more independent, not dependent. Nurses
provide patients with information needed for self-care to ensure
continuity of care from the hospital to the home.
-2. A nurse is teaching a group of healthy adults about the
benefits of flu immunizations. Which purpose of patient
education is the nurse fulfilling?
a. Restoration of health
b. Coping with impaired functions
c. Promotion of health and illness prevention
d. Health analogies - -ANS: C
As a nurse, you are a visible, competent resource for patients
who want to improve their physical and psychological well-being.
In the school, home, clinic, or workplace, you promote health and
prevent illness by providing information and skills that enable
patients to assume healthier behaviors. Injured and ill patients
need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their
level of health; this is referred to as restoration of health. Not all
patients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to learn
to cope with permanent health alterations; this is known as
coping with impaired functions. Analogies supplement verbal
,instruction with familiar images that make complex information
more real and understandable. For example, when explaining
arterial blood pressure, use an analogy of the flow of water
through a hose.
-3. A nurse provides teaching about coping with long-term
impaired functions. Which situation serves as the best example?
a. Teaching a family member to give medications through the
patient's permanent gastric tube
b. Teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her
pathology reports
c. Teaching expectant parents about physical and psychological
changes in childbearing women
d. Teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches - -
ANS: A
Not all patients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to
learn to cope with permanent health alterations. New knowledge
and skills are often necessary for patients and/or family members
to continue activities of daily living. Teaching family members to
help the patient with health care management (e.g., giving
medications through gastric tubes, doing passive range-of-motion
exercises) is an example of coping with long-term impaired
functions. Injured and ill patients need information and skills to
help them regain or maintain their levels of health. Some
examples of this include teaching a woman who recently had a
hysterectomy about her pathology reports and expected length of
recovery and teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use
crutches. In childbearing classes, you teach expectant parents
about physical and psychological changes in the woman and
about fetal development; this is part of health maintenance.
-4. Which statement indicates that the nurse has a good
understanding of teaching/learning?
a. "Teaching and learning can be separated."
b. "Learning is an interactive process that promotes teaching."
c. "Learning consists of a conscious, deliberate set of actions
designed to help the teacher."
, d. "Teaching is most effective when it responds to the learner's
needs." - -ANS: D
Teaching is most effective when it responds to the learner's
needs. It is impossible to separate teaching from learning.
Teaching is an interactive process that promotes learning.
Teaching consists of a conscious, deliberate set of actions that
help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt
new behaviors, or perform new skills.
-5. Which action best indicates that learning has occurred?
a. A nurse presents information about diabetes.
b. A patient demonstrates how to inject insulin.
c. A family member listens to a lecture on diabetes.
d. A primary care provider hands a diabetes pamphlet to the
patient. - -ANS: B
Learning is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge,
attitudes, behaviors, and skills. Complex patterns are required if
the patient is to learn new skills, change existing attitudes,
transfer learning to new situations, or solve problems. A new
mother exhibits learning when she demonstrates how to bathe
her newborn. A nurse presenting information and a primary care
provider handing a pamphlet to a patient are examples of
teaching. A family member listening to a lecture does not
indicate that learning occurred; a change in knowledge,
attitudes, behaviors, and/or skills must be evident.
-6. A nurse is teaching a patient about the Speak Up Initiatives.
Which information should the nurse include?
a. The nurse is the center of the health care team.
b. If you still do not understand, ask again.
c. Ask a nurse to be your advocate or supporter.
d. Inappropriate medical tests are the most common mistakes. -
-ANS: B
If you still do not understand, ask again is part of the S portion of
the Speak Up Initiatives. Speak up if you have questions or
concerns. You (the patient) are the center of the health care
