You are teaching the patient about blood pressure control along with diet and weight reduction. What might you see to reassure you the patient understands this learning session?
1. The patient takes a few notes.
2. The patient repeats back some of the information given.
3. The patient is on time for every teaching session.
4. The patient takes his blood pressure and weighs himself.
4
Teaching that is more active and provides sensory involvement like handling things, hearing things, eating something, and so forth allows more effective learning to take place.
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A nurse is administering a patient's medication by mouth. The nurse knows that for this medication to be utilized by the body, diffusion, filtration, and osmosis must take place. Which mechanism is the first to be involved in that process?
a. Excretion b. Metabolism c. Distribution d. Absorption
Which of the following statements by the client indicates that she understands breast self-examination?
a. "I will examine both breasts in two different positions." b. "I will perform a breast self-examination 1 week after my menstrual period starts." c. "I will examine the outer upper area of the breast only." d. "I will use the palm of the hand to perform the examination."
A nurse is explaining drug metabolism to a nursing student who asks about glucuronidation. The nurse knows that this is a process that allows drugs to be:
a. excreted in hydrolyzed form in the feces to reduce drug toxicity. b. reabsorbed from the urine into the renal circulation to minimize drug loss. c. recycled via the enterohepatic recirculation to remain in the body longer. d. transported across the renal tubules to be excreted in the urine.
How would a professor who wants to have his students provide data for a research study go about achieving this without involving coercion?
a. Mention that participation provides extra points. b. Have a research assistant consent all subjects and collect all data. c. Offer extra points to the whole class if 50% of them act as subjects. d. Open the study to all students on campus and provide a nonacademic incentive.