You are the clinic nurse providing patient education to a teenage girl who was diagnosed 6 months ago with type 1 diabetes
Her hemoglobin A1C results suggest she has not been adhering to her prescribed treatment regimen. As the nurse, what variables do you need to assess to help this patient better adhere to her treatment regimen? Select all that apply.
A) Variables that affect the patient's ability to obtain resources
B) Variables that affect the patient's ability to teach her friends about diabetes
C) Variables that affect the patient's ability to cure her disease
D) Variables that affect the patient's ability to maintain a healthy social environment
E) Variables that affect the patient's ability to adopt specific behaviors
Ans: A, D, E
Feedback:
Nurses' success with health education is determined by ongoing assessment of the variables that affect a patient's ability to adopt specific behaviors, to obtain resources, and to maintain a healthy social environment. The patient's ability to teach her friends about her condition is not a variable that the nurse would likely assess when educating the patient about her treatment regimen. Type 1 diabetes is not curable.
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