Patient Education 2026 – Study Guide and Review Questions
Purposes of patient education - correct answer ✔✔ The goal of educating others about their
health is to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health.
Coping with impaired functions - correct answer ✔✔ 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 to continue activities of daily living.
Teaching - correct answer ✔✔ Is an interactive process that promotes learning. It consists of a
conscious deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, changed attitudes,
adapt new behaviors, or perform new skills.
Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes,
behaviors, and skills. Complex patterns are you required if the patient is to learn new skills,
change existing attitudes, transfer learning to new situations, or solve problems.
Speak up program - correct answer ✔✔ S- Speak up if you have questions or concerns. If you
still do not understand ask again.
P- Pay attention to the care you get always make sure you're getting the right treatment and
medications by the right health care professionals do not assume anything.
E- Educate yourself about your illness.
A- Ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate.
K- Know which medicines you take and why you take them.
U- Use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare organization that has been
carefully evaluated.
P- Participate in all decisions about your treatment.
, Learning objectives - correct answer ✔✔ Describes what the learner will be able to do after
successful instruction.
Domains of learning - correct answer ✔✔ Learning occurs in three domains: cognitive
(understanding), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (motor skills).
• Cognitive learning- Includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking. Cognitive learning
includes the following: knowledge (simplest), comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
and evaluation (most complex).
• Affective learning- Deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or
values. Affective learning includes the following: receiving (simplest), responding, valuing,
organizing, and characterizing (most complex).
• Psychomotor learning- Involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and
muscular activity such as the ability to walk or use an eating
utensil. Psychomotor learning includes the following: perception(simplest), set, guided
response, mechanism, complex over to response, adaption, and origination (most complex).
Appropriate teaching methods based on domains of learning - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Cognitive
• Discussion (one-on-one or group)
• Involves nurse with one patient or a nurse with a group
• Promotes active participation and focuses on topics of interest to patient
• allows peer support
• enhances application and analysis of new information
• Lecture
• Is more formal method of instruction because it is teacher controlled
• Helps learner acquire new knowledge and gain comprehension
• Question and answer session
• Addresses patient specific concerns
•assists patient in applying knowledge
• Role-play, discovery
Purposes of patient education - correct answer ✔✔ The goal of educating others about their
health is to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health.
Coping with impaired functions - correct answer ✔✔ 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 to continue activities of daily living.
Teaching - correct answer ✔✔ Is an interactive process that promotes learning. It consists of a
conscious deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, changed attitudes,
adapt new behaviors, or perform new skills.
Learning - correct answer ✔✔ Is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes,
behaviors, and skills. Complex patterns are you required if the patient is to learn new skills,
change existing attitudes, transfer learning to new situations, or solve problems.
Speak up program - correct answer ✔✔ S- Speak up if you have questions or concerns. If you
still do not understand ask again.
P- Pay attention to the care you get always make sure you're getting the right treatment and
medications by the right health care professionals do not assume anything.
E- Educate yourself about your illness.
A- Ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate.
K- Know which medicines you take and why you take them.
U- Use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of healthcare organization that has been
carefully evaluated.
P- Participate in all decisions about your treatment.
, Learning objectives - correct answer ✔✔ Describes what the learner will be able to do after
successful instruction.
Domains of learning - correct answer ✔✔ Learning occurs in three domains: cognitive
(understanding), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (motor skills).
• Cognitive learning- Includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking. Cognitive learning
includes the following: knowledge (simplest), comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
and evaluation (most complex).
• Affective learning- Deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or
values. Affective learning includes the following: receiving (simplest), responding, valuing,
organizing, and characterizing (most complex).
• Psychomotor learning- Involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and
muscular activity such as the ability to walk or use an eating
utensil. Psychomotor learning includes the following: perception(simplest), set, guided
response, mechanism, complex over to response, adaption, and origination (most complex).
Appropriate teaching methods based on domains of learning - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Cognitive
• Discussion (one-on-one or group)
• Involves nurse with one patient or a nurse with a group
• Promotes active participation and focuses on topics of interest to patient
• allows peer support
• enhances application and analysis of new information
• Lecture
• Is more formal method of instruction because it is teacher controlled
• Helps learner acquire new knowledge and gain comprehension
• Question and answer session
• Addresses patient specific concerns
•assists patient in applying knowledge
• Role-play, discovery
