What should the nurse do to minimize the effort required in evaluation regarding the success of the nurse's intervention with the family? Select all that apply.
A. Choose criteria for evaluation that will demonstrate the value of the nursing interventions.
B. Evaluate care based on the goals the family and nurse together agreed upon.
C. Gather all possible data throughout the intervention so the data will be available for evaluation purposes.
D. Plan for evaluation while beginning assessment of the family.
E. Share with the family that they must contribute data for evaluation when requested.
F. Use only short-term criteria so the data can be gathered before care is terminated.
Question 2
The nurse helped the patient set up a book or log where the patient recorded the blood sugar level before and 2 hours after each meal. How could the nurse best evaluate if the patient understood the diet plan?
A. Ask the patient if the goals of control and the diet plan were clear.
B. Ask the patient what he or she ate for the last three meals to see if it fit the diet plan.
C. The nurse should collect at least two blood sugar samples to see if they were consistent with the figures the patient was reporting in the log.
D. Use formative evaluation and review the daily blood sugar levels each week.
E. Use summative evaluation and review the daily blood sugar levels each week.
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