The client's teaching plan includes this goal: "The client will select a 2-g 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)Check the sodium content of the client's menu choices over the next 3 days.
B)Ask the client to identify which foods on the hospital menus are high in sodium.
C)Have the client list favourite foods that are high in sodium and foods that could be substituted for these favourites.
D)Compare the client's sodium intake over the next 3 days with the sodium intake before the teaching was implemented.

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All of the answers address the client's sodium intake, but the desired client behaviours in the learning objective are most clearly addressed by evaluation of the client's menu choices.

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