You have an orthopedic client going home today after knee surgery. He has limited reading and writing skills
a. How would you find out the best way he learns to teach him his discharge orders?
b. What are the different learning styles?
c. How does cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning affect this client? Or would any of these?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. The best way is to ask the client. If he or she is unable to give you a good answer, give some examples of different types of learning.
b. List the three types of learners here and how they learn. An example of how each learns besides the definition would be good for the students.
c. This client may learn by show-and-tell or demonstration. This would be psychomotor. The students can elaborate and discuss which option they think is best based on what little information is given; this is pretty open ended.
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