The hospital nurse implements a teaching plan to assist an older ...

[bobbie]

The hospital nurse implements a teaching plan to assist an older patient who lives alone to independently accomplish daily activities. How would the nurse best evaluate the patient's long-term response to the teaching?
 
  a. Make a referral to the home health nursing department for home visits.
  b. Have the patient demonstrate the learned skills at the end of the teaching session.
  c. Arrange a physical therapy visit before the patient is discharged from the hospital.
  d. Check the patient's ability to bathe and get dressed without any assistance the next day.

Question 2

The nurse and the patient who is diagnosed with hypertension develop this goal: The patient will select a 2-gram sodium diet from the hospital menu for the next 3 days.
 
  Which evaluation method will be best for the nurse to use when determining whether teaching was effective?
  a. Have the patient list substitutes for favorite foods that are high in sodium.
  b. Check the sodium content of the patient's menu choices over the next 3 days.
  c. Ask the patient to identify which foods on the hospital menus are high in sodium.
  d. Compare the patient's sodium intake before and after the teaching was implemented.

[vickyvicksss]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
A home health referral would allow for the assessment of the patient's long-term response after discharge. The other actions allow evaluation of the patient's short-term response to teaching.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
All of the answers address the patient's sodium intake, but the desired patient behaviors in the learning objective are most clearly addressed by evaluating the sodium content of the patient's menu choices.

[bobbie]

TYSM

[sailorcrescent]

Excellent