Nurses teaching clients about their health prevention or disease process or giving instructions on a procedure is:
1. A way to establish the client's dependence on the nurse.
2. An important independent nursing function.
3. An activity nurses learn on the job.
4. A dependent function of nursing that needs a health care provider's order to implement.
2. An important independent nursing function.
Rationale:
State nurse practice acts include client teaching as a function of nursing, thereby making teaching a legal and professional responsibility. Nurses seek to help clients manage their health independently. Nurses begin to learn about teaching during their training. Nurses are not dependent on health care providers when determining the learning needs of the client.
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