You are the nurse planning to teach tracheostomy care to a patient who will be discharged home following a spinal cord injury. When preparing your teaching, which of the following is the most important component of your teaching plan?
A) Citing the evidence that underlies each of your teaching points
B) Alleviating the patient's guilt associated with not knowing appropriate self-care
C) Determining the patient's readiness to learn new information
D) Including your nursing colleagues in the planning process
Ans: C
Feedback:
Assessment in the teaching–learning process is directed toward the systematic collection of data about the person and family's learning needs and readiness to learn. Patient readiness is critical to accepting and integrating new information. Unless the patient is ready to accept new information, patient teaching will be ineffective. Citing the evidence base will not likely enhance learning. Patient guilt cannot be alleviated until the patient understands the intricacies of the condition and his physiologic response to the disease. Inclusion of colleagues can be beneficial, but this does not determine the success or failure of teaching.
You might also like to view...
The nurse caring for a client receiving wet-to-dry dressings for mechanical debridement of a large wound would be aware that proper technique requires that the dressing should
a. be left in place about 12 hours. b. be removed when it is totally dry. c. cause slight bleeding when removed to be effective. d. only be moist, not wet, when applied.
You notice that your client, who had abdominal surgery, demonstrates many of the values associated with being brought up as an Irish Catholic
After surgery, your client was weak from having been severely anemic. On the day of discharge, the client is quiet and won't say what is of concern, which you believe might be related to the client's cultural ways. After talking with the client's family member, you arrange for home assistance for the client's first week after discharge. You are applying which nursing theorist's nursing theory? 1. Hildegarde Peplau 2. Faye Abdellah 3. Dorothea Orem 4. Madeleine Leininger
A patient is brought to the emergency department after being involved in a motor vehicle crash
Which assessment would indicate to the nurse that FAST examination will likely be necessary? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. Ecchymoses over the abdomen 2. Complaint of neck pain 3. Report of head-on crash in which the patient was the restrained driver 4. Lower leg lacerations and fractures 5. Complaints of chest wall tenderness
Which does the nurse use to cleanse the perineum of a female client for urinary catheter insertion?
1. Rinse the perineum with warm antiseptic solution. 2. Swab perineum from the anus to the urinary meatus. 3. Use nondominant hand to keep labia spread apart continuously. 4. Use nondominant hand to cleanse from urinary meatus to rectum.