A nurse provides teaching about coping with long-term impaired functions. Which situation serves as the best example?
a. Teaching a family member to give medications through the patient's permanent gastric tube
b. Teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her pathology reports
c. Teaching expectant parents about physical and psychological changes in childbearing women
d. Teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches
ANS: A
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. Injured and ill patients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their levels of health. Some examples of this include teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her pathology reports and expected length of recovery and teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches. 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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