Consumers are entitled to expect what competencies from nurses in health education roles?
1. Creative knowledge of learning principles, health reimbursement basics, technology, and patient's clinical needs
2. Ability to question diagnoses made by patients' physicians
3. Skill in prescribing medications for common, routine disorders and evaluating their effects
4. Awareness that nurses are limited to reinforcing and clarifying physician's instructions
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Explanation: 1. A nurse health educator should be able to use a variety of teaching strategies to meet the needs of a range of patients, including their needs for assistance with negotiating the healthcare and insurance systems, increasing technology, and complicated health and illness facts.
2. The nurse health educator is not qualified to question medical diagnoses.
3. The nurse health educator is not qualified to prescribe medications.
4. The nurse health educator can educate patients about health risks, preventive measures, and treatment compliance, whether or not this has been addressed by the patient's physician.
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