To actively involve the postpartal patient during discharge teaching, the postpartum nurse applies which adult learning principle?
1. Reprints of magazine articles
2. Classroom lectures
3. Audiotapes
4. Sensory involvement and active participation
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Rationale 1: Providing magazine articles does not actively involve the patient in learning.
Rationale 2: Classroom lectures do not actively involve the patient in learning.
Rationale 3: Listening to audiotapes does not actively involve the patient in learning.
Rationale 4: Sensory involvement and active participation are two of the keys to adult learning, because they actively involve the patient in learning.
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