Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: Nurses are involved in the instruction of professional colleagues, such as functioning as preceptors for new graduate nurses.
Rationale 2: Nurses with specialized knowledge and experience may share that knowledge and experience with nurses by instructing a part of the critical care course.
Rationale 3: Nurses in nursing practice settings are often involved in the clinical instruction of nursing students.
Rationale 4: One-to-one teaching of clients is not an example of being an educator of other healthcare personnel.
Rationale 5: Teaching grandparents how to care for children is not an example of being an educator of other healthcare personnel.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 1,2,3
Rationale 1: Because of decreased lengths of stay, time constraints on client education can occur. The nurse needs to provide education that will ensure the client's safe transition to home.
Rationale 2: Discharge plans must include information about what the client has been taught.
Rationale 3: Discharge plans must include what the client still needs to learn when discharged.
Rationale 4: The nurse does not need to check the client's insurance for hospitalization coverage when preparing discharge instructions.
Rationale 5: The nurse does not call the client's prescriptions in to the client's local pharmacy when preparing discharge instructions.
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