NSG 252 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
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1. what is the goal of patient education? - ANSWER ✔ To help individuals,
families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health
2. sets standards for patient and family education, must collaborate to reach
accomplish standards of care - ANSWER ✔ The Joint Commission (TJC)
3. what does patient education include? - ANSWER ✔ - maintence and
promotion of health and illness
- restoration of health
- coping with impaired function
4. who is the center of the healthcare team? - ANSWER ✔ us!
5. what does SPEAK UP stand for? - ANSWER ✔ S - speak up if you have
questions of concerns.
P - pay attention to the care you are receiving
E - educate yourself about your diagnosis
A - ask a trusted friend or family member to be your advocate
K - know your medications and why you take them
U - use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare
organization that has undergone a rigorous on-site evaluation against
, established state-of-the-art quality and safety standards, such as that
provided by The Joint Commission
P - participate in all decisions about your treatment
6. what are the basic learning principles? - ANSWER ✔ 1. motivation to learn
2. readiness to learn
3. ability to learn
7. Goal: to help the patient resolve his or her ambivalence about adopting new
self-care behaviors, develop some momentum, and believe that behavioral
change is possible - ANSWER ✔ motivation to learn
8. 1st Theorist - ANSWER ✔ Flo. Nightingale
9. Best evidence comes from - ANSWER ✔ research studies in scientific
journals
10.Excuses for not changing how we care for clients - ANSWER ✔ tradition,
convenience, "how we've always done it"`]
11.Sources for evidence may be? - ANSWER ✔ quality improvement & risk
management data, standards of practice, infection control, benchmarking,
chart review, clinician expertice
12.To get research done over the same thing happening over and over again,
you should look at: - ANSWER ✔ errors and incident reports
13.Good evidence depends on - ANSWER ✔ patient's prefereneces and beliefs
,14.Client's experience 28% better outcomes when - ANSWER ✔ they receive
care based on the most recent and best evidence
15.Trends in healthcare aimed at reduction of medication errors: - ANSWER ✔
EHR's (electronic health records)
E-prescribing- the transmission of prescription-related-information through
electronic transmission to pharmacy or health care provider.
Barcode-assisted medication administration
Patient's wristband barcode is scanned for verification, medication scan for
correct patients; electronic alerts issued if the wrong medication is scanned,
wrong dose, incorrect time...etc.
16.Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches to Health -
ANSWER ✔ CAM—an array of health care approaches with a history of
use or origins outside of mainstream medicine
Complementary—therapies used in addition to conventional treatment (aka
integrative therapies)
Alternative—therapies that replace allopathic medical care
Whole medical systems—based on different philosophies and life systems
Integrative nursing
Advances health and well-being through caring-healing relationships
Uses evidence to inform traditional and emerging interventions that support
whole-person/whole-systems healing
Weigh risks and benefits of each intervention when recommending
complementary therapies
17.Relaxation Therapy - ANSWER ✔ Involves arousal reduction
Progressive relaxation
Passive relaxation
Limitations
, 18.Meditation and Breathing - ANSWER ✔ Meditation
Any activity that limits stimulus input by directing attention to a single
unchanging or repetitive stimulus, person becomes more aware of self
Clinical application
Lowers oxygen consumption, reduces respiratory and heart rates, and
reduces anxiety, lowers BP
Limitations
May become hypertensive
May enhance effects of certain drugs
19.Imagery - ANSWER ✔ A mind-body therapy that uses the conscious mind
to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, improve
perceived well-being, and/or enhance self-awareness
Clinical applications
Pain control
Limitations
Relatively few side effects
20.Biofeedback - ANSWER ✔ A mind-body technique that uses instruments to
teach self-regulation and voluntary self-control over specific physiological
responses.
Instruments measure, process, and provide information about neuromuscular
and autonomic nervous system activity.
Immediate feedback is provided in physical, physiological, auditory, and/or
visual signals.
21.Acupuncture - ANSWER ✔ Regulates or realigns vital energy (qi), which
flows through channels in the form of a system of pathways called meridians
Effective for pain
Also used to treat other disorders with varying effectiveness
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. what is the goal of patient education? - ANSWER ✔ To help individuals,
families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health
2. sets standards for patient and family education, must collaborate to reach
accomplish standards of care - ANSWER ✔ The Joint Commission (TJC)
3. what does patient education include? - ANSWER ✔ - maintence and
promotion of health and illness
- restoration of health
- coping with impaired function
4. who is the center of the healthcare team? - ANSWER ✔ us!
5. what does SPEAK UP stand for? - ANSWER ✔ S - speak up if you have
questions of concerns.
P - pay attention to the care you are receiving
E - educate yourself about your diagnosis
A - ask a trusted friend or family member to be your advocate
K - know your medications and why you take them
U - use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare
organization that has undergone a rigorous on-site evaluation against
, established state-of-the-art quality and safety standards, such as that
provided by The Joint Commission
P - participate in all decisions about your treatment
6. what are the basic learning principles? - ANSWER ✔ 1. motivation to learn
2. readiness to learn
3. ability to learn
7. Goal: to help the patient resolve his or her ambivalence about adopting new
self-care behaviors, develop some momentum, and believe that behavioral
change is possible - ANSWER ✔ motivation to learn
8. 1st Theorist - ANSWER ✔ Flo. Nightingale
9. Best evidence comes from - ANSWER ✔ research studies in scientific
journals
10.Excuses for not changing how we care for clients - ANSWER ✔ tradition,
convenience, "how we've always done it"`]
11.Sources for evidence may be? - ANSWER ✔ quality improvement & risk
management data, standards of practice, infection control, benchmarking,
chart review, clinician expertice
12.To get research done over the same thing happening over and over again,
you should look at: - ANSWER ✔ errors and incident reports
13.Good evidence depends on - ANSWER ✔ patient's prefereneces and beliefs
,14.Client's experience 28% better outcomes when - ANSWER ✔ they receive
care based on the most recent and best evidence
15.Trends in healthcare aimed at reduction of medication errors: - ANSWER ✔
EHR's (electronic health records)
E-prescribing- the transmission of prescription-related-information through
electronic transmission to pharmacy or health care provider.
Barcode-assisted medication administration
Patient's wristband barcode is scanned for verification, medication scan for
correct patients; electronic alerts issued if the wrong medication is scanned,
wrong dose, incorrect time...etc.
16.Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches to Health -
ANSWER ✔ CAM—an array of health care approaches with a history of
use or origins outside of mainstream medicine
Complementary—therapies used in addition to conventional treatment (aka
integrative therapies)
Alternative—therapies that replace allopathic medical care
Whole medical systems—based on different philosophies and life systems
Integrative nursing
Advances health and well-being through caring-healing relationships
Uses evidence to inform traditional and emerging interventions that support
whole-person/whole-systems healing
Weigh risks and benefits of each intervention when recommending
complementary therapies
17.Relaxation Therapy - ANSWER ✔ Involves arousal reduction
Progressive relaxation
Passive relaxation
Limitations
, 18.Meditation and Breathing - ANSWER ✔ Meditation
Any activity that limits stimulus input by directing attention to a single
unchanging or repetitive stimulus, person becomes more aware of self
Clinical application
Lowers oxygen consumption, reduces respiratory and heart rates, and
reduces anxiety, lowers BP
Limitations
May become hypertensive
May enhance effects of certain drugs
19.Imagery - ANSWER ✔ A mind-body therapy that uses the conscious mind
to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, improve
perceived well-being, and/or enhance self-awareness
Clinical applications
Pain control
Limitations
Relatively few side effects
20.Biofeedback - ANSWER ✔ A mind-body technique that uses instruments to
teach self-regulation and voluntary self-control over specific physiological
responses.
Instruments measure, process, and provide information about neuromuscular
and autonomic nervous system activity.
Immediate feedback is provided in physical, physiological, auditory, and/or
visual signals.
21.Acupuncture - ANSWER ✔ Regulates or realigns vital energy (qi), which
flows through channels in the form of a system of pathways called meridians
Effective for pain
Also used to treat other disorders with varying effectiveness
