A nurse's goal is to provide teaching for restoration of health. Which situation indicates the nurse is meeting this goal?
a. Teaching a family member to provide passive range of motion for a stroke patient
b. Teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about possible adoption
c. Teaching expectant parents about changes in childbearing women
d. Teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches
ANS: D
Injured or ill patients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their levels of health. An example includes teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches. Not all patients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to learn to cope with permanent health alterations. New knowledge and skills are often necessary for patients and/or family members to continue activities of daily living. Teaching family members to help the patient with health care management (e.g., giving medications through gastric tubes, doing passive range-of-motion exercises) is an example of coping with long-term impaired functions. For a woman with a hysterectomy, teaching about adoption is not restoration of health; restoration of health in this situation would involve activity restrictions and incision care if needed. In childbearing classes, you teach expectant parents about physical and psychological changes in the woman and about fetal development; this is part of health maintenance.
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