A nurse provides teaching about coping with long-term impaired functions.Which situation serves as the best example?

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Not all patients fully recover from illness or injury.Many have to learn to cope with permanent health alterations.New knowledge and skills are often necessary for patients and/or family members to continue activities of daily living.Teaching family members to help the patient with health care management (e.g.,giving medications through gastric tubes,doing passive range-of-motion exercises)is an example of coping with long-term impaired functions.Injured and ill patients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their levels of health.Some examples of this include teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her pathology reports and expected length of recovery and teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches.In childbearing classes,you teach expectant parents about physical and psychological changes in the woman and about fetal development; this is part of health maintenance.

A Nurse Provides Teaching About Coping with Long-Term Impaired Functions