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Study Guide for Exam II – NSG 3130
1. Understand health literacy and recognize the implications of low health literacy skills.
Health Literacy
• Is about patients having the literary skills (reading and writing), numeracy skills, and the abil-
ity to obtain, understand, and use medical information from the health care team or other
sources to make informed decisions about their course of treatment
Low Health Literacy
• People may have misinformation or lack of knowledge about the body or the nature and causes
of disease
• They may not understand the relationship between lifestyle choices such as diet and activity
levels and health outcomes
• Associated with a higher risk of death, a greater number of potentially preventable hospitaliza-
tions, and a higher utilization of health care services as a result of poorly controlled chronic ill-
ness
2. Describe and name clients’ readiness to learn, learning preferences, and barriers to learn-
ing.
Learning styles
• Understanding how individuals learn is important when considering written or verbal informa-
tion being taught
• Nurses can supplement materials that are written at a high reading level with photos, drawings,
and explanations of terms that are difficult to understand
• Nurses must give consideration to the learning styles, strengths, and abilities of the individual
• Individuals typically learn from more than one method - multimodel learner
• Good practice to provide multiple means of learning
• Repetition enhances learning
Domains of Learning
Cognitive
• Learning comprises of knowledge and material that is remembered
• Integrate new knowledge through first learning and then recalling the information
Teachings include: literature written at the appropriate readind level, demonstration, and use of
examples
Psychomotor
• Incorporates physical movement and the use of motor skills in learning
, • Teaching a patient a skill and then having them demonstrate it back
Teaching includes: new diabetic patient to check blood glucose levels
Affective
• Recognizes the emotional component of integrating new knowledge