An 18-year-old patient is scheduled for heart surgery tomorrow. To assess this patient's level of knowledge, the nurse would say
a. Tell me the name of the surgery you are going to have.
b. Do you understand what the doctor is going to do to you?
c. Would you be willing to take a test for me?
d. Tell me what you know about what is going to happen tomorrow.
Question 2
Which example demonstrates the principle that all adults learn best from and in relation to their experiences?
a. Teaching the attitude of personal responsibility for health care
b. Showing a patient newly diagnosed with diabetes the similarities between an insulin syringe and a 3-cc syringe
c. Refraining from teaching two skills at one time
d. Showing the patient how the current hand washing procedure he is now learning is like the hand washing he has always done
Schematic of an automated external defibrillator (AED) attached to a patient.
An enlarged heart showing the results of cardiomyopathy.
Heart
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