When initiating health teaching, the nurse recognizes that readiness to learn
a. is the same as the cognitive ability to learn.
b. involves a smooth and linear developmental process.
c. requires the nurse to consistently challenge the client's learning pattern.
d. involves incorporation of the client's learning pattern into new opportunities for learning.
ANS: D
Rather than challenge the client's learning pattern, the nurse needs to understand it and incorporate it into new opportunities for learning. Readiness to learn is not the same as the cognitive ability to learn. Nurses need to remember that learning is never smooth or linear in its development. Rather than challenge the client's learning pattern, the nurse needs to understand it and incorporate it into new opportunities for learning.
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