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geodog55

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Adult patients are adult learners. Knowing this, you understand there are assumptions about adult learners that will help you plan the education you provide. Which of the following statements is not an assumption about adults as learners?
 
  a. Adults will learn as they develop needs that they believe learning will fulfill.
  b. Adults use their lives as the point of reference for all learning.
  c. Adults learn best from the experiences of others.
  d. Adults prefer to be self-directed in learning or at the very least have a say in it.

Question 2

The nurse recognizes that, for learning to be effective, the patient must first have his or her basic and most immediate needs met first. Which of the following statements best indicates the nurse clearly understands this principle?
 
  a. The nurse administers pain medication to the new diabetic patient before she starts her teaching just in case the patient is in pain.
  b. Thirty minutes before the planned teaching, the nurse assesses the patient for comfort and ensures that the patient has eaten and had the opportunity to com-plete his bath routine.
  c. The nurse decides that conversation works best during a meal, so she plans to teach while the patient eats.
  d. The nurse asks the patient's wife to leave before she begins the teaching.


kjohnson

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Reply #1 on: Jul 17, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C
Adults learn best when the content can be related to their own experiences, so Option c is not a correct assumption about adults as learners.

Answer to Question 2

B
Learning is best facilitated if the learner is motivated to make a change in lifestyle, believes that the information to be learned will be beneficial, believes that it is possible to learn what is needed, has clear and reasonable outcome objectives, has a low to moderate level of stress, has had other immediate needs met, and believes that the changes related to learning will have a positive influence on his or her life.


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geodog55

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Reply #2 on: Jul 17, 2018
Correct answers!


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Reply #3 on: Jul 17, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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