Answer to Question 1
4. Require the client to perform a return demonstration.
Rationale:
The nurse is responsible for documenting that the client can perform the skill that has been taught. Giving the client written directions or teaching the support person does not meet the requirement that the client will perform the skill. The nurse cannot document that the client understands teaching until a return demonstration by the client is correctly performed.
Answer to Question 2
2. Address any healing beliefs the family has.
Rationale:
The client who does not understand will learn little, and providing an interpreter to assist with communication is extremely important in this situation. However, if the prescribed treatment conflicts with the client/family's cultural healing beliefs, the client may not be compliant with the recommended treatments. To be effective, nurses must deal directly with any conflicts and differing values held by the client's parents. It is also important to provide written material and assess the psychomotor skills of the child, but the first priority is ascertaining any belief conflicts that may interfere with the treatment.
Establishing a caring and trusting relationship helps the client come to terms with a terminal illne
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Use a rubber finger cot to cover an open wound on a finger.
Apply the substance to the client’s upper chest.
Testing the client’s ability to feel vibrations, the toe
The client is positioned for the examination