The nurse wonders which nursing interventions increase patients' competence in managing their own recovery after discharge. Which intervention might be appropriate to help determine this?
1. The nurse will discuss the patient's discharge with the health care provider.
2. The nurse will measure the patient's ability to ambulate without dyspnea.
3. The nurse will provide the patient with 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep while in the inpatient facility.
4. The nurse will adjust patient teaching to allow for cultural diversity.
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Rationale 1: Discussing the patient's discharge with other health care providers does not address the question of patient competence, but it may provide some insight into how to manage interventions for the patient.
Rationale 2: The ability to ambulate without dyspnea could determine how far the patient can ambulate, but it does not address the research question.
Rationale 3: Providing the patient with uninterrupted sleep will not address the question of patients' competence in managing their own recovery after discharge.
Rationale 4: Interventions involved in a research project to help determine patients' competence in managing their own recovery after discharge must address the topic for validation. Adjusting teaching to allow for cultural diversity would help determine whether this intervention would impact patients' competence.
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