The student nurse interprets teaching as a critical role for nurses because
a. health care is a complex system that re-quires patient education.
b. not everyone has access to information about health care.
c. the less fortunate have greater difficulty understanding treatment choices.
d. understanding choices allows the patient to make informed decisions.
D
Teaching patients about their therapy, condition, or choices is critical to the successful outcome of some prescribed treatments. Teaching does not guarantee access to health care information. Knowledge can enhance compliance with medications and can encourage healthy lifestyles and behaviors. Teaching becomes especially important when patients have to make treatment choices and decisions about their care. With the volumes of information available regarding health care, it is even more important that nurses help patients understand what they need to know to make wise decisions. The less fortunate do not necessarily have greater difficulty understanding treat-ment choices but often difficulty in accessing health care.
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