Question 1

Which of the following is a principle of effective teaching?

Accepted Answer

Spending time on the task is a principle of effective teaching. Planning interventions, determining outcomes, and assessing previous knowledge are steps in the nursing process.

Question 2

Which of the following indicates that a patient has achieved the highest level of cognitive learning?

Accepted Answer

Patients move to the highest level of cognitive learning by creating a plan to improve their health. Remembering information is the starting point in the cognitive domain. Reading about the health problem supports understanding the health problem. Asking what can be done about the health problem provides additional information prior to creating a plan.

Question 3

How does frequent repetition when teaching a psychomotor skill help the client?

Accepted Answer

Frequent repetition can help clients adapt their performance to environmental constraints and influences. Frequent repetition is not used to evaluate the client's ability to perform the skill, reinforce the value of performing the skill, or help eliminate negative attitudes about the skill.

Question 4

Which of the following approaches would be used to help a patient clarify values and feelings about issues to improve health?

Accepted Answer

Counseling is an approach to health education in which health-care providers help patients clarify their values and feelings about issues in improving their health. Coaching is a goal-oriented, patient-centered partnership that is health-focused and occurs through a process of enlightenment and empowerment. Group therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy are not approaches used for health education.

Question 5

Why would a nurse use a decision aid when providing health education?

Accepted Answer

Decision aids help patients know their options and clarify personal values. Decision aids do not support behavior change, provide a checklist to follow, or serve to increase personal accountability.

Question 6

What should be done if Facebook is used for health education?

Accepted Answer

Facebook is being increasingly used to target health education; however, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach for the type of behavior. Livestreaming events would be one way to provide health education. Restricting the use of private messaging might hinder learning if the participant has questions. Limiting the number of people allowed on the page might hinder learning.

Question 7

Which of the following is an active learning approach?

Accepted Answer

Effective active learning strategies in professional education include games. YouTube videos, mobile phone apps, and avatars in virtual environments are technology-based approaches for learning that do not encourage or support active learning.

Question 8

How would an education program based on assessment of need be evaluated for effectiveness?

Accepted Answer

When a health promotion program is based on assessment of need, outcomes flow naturally from resolving that need. Avoiding hospitalization and taking medications as prescribed would be evidence that the need was resolved. The patient having no further questions would not be used to evaluate outcomes of a health education program.

Question 9

A patient wants to use an intervention that has been graded as I through the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPST). What should the nurse do?

Accepted Answer

For an intervention rated as I, it should be explained that the benefits and harms cannot be determined. The benefits of an intervention rated as C would be small. An intervention rated as D should be discouraged. The benefits of an intervention rated as B would be moderate to substantial.

Question 10

How should health education resources be used in clinical practice?

Accepted Answer

To make the best use of the resources, clinicians are encouraged to compile online resources for issues and patient groups regularly seen in their practice setting. There would not be sufficient time for a patient to review education material in an examination room. Distribution to inpatient hospital areas would apply only if the education topic is appropriate for the patient population. Displaying the resources in the lobby of a facility would not guarantee that the material would be used.

Quiz 12: Planning Effective Ways to Help Clients Learn About Health