A home care client must correctly self-administer insulin injections before being discharged from the agency. On what skill is this client being evaluated?

Question

1. Technical
2. Cognitive
3. Interpersonal
4. Academic

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Technical skills are "hands-on" skills such as manipulating equipment, giving injections, bandaging, and moving, lifting, and repositioning clients. These skills can also be called tasks, procedures, or psychomotor skills.
Rationale 2: Cognitive skills are intellectual skills that involve problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and creativity.
Rationale 3: Interpersonal skills are necessary for nursing activities: caring, comforting, advocating, referring, counseling, and supporting, to name a few.
Rationale 4: Academic skills would fall under the category of cognitive skills.