Chapter 25 Patient Education Final Exam 2026 – Study Guide and
Practice Questions
What is one of the most important roles for a nurse in any health care setting? - correct answer
✔✔ Patient education
Why do nurses provide patients with information needed for self-care? - correct answer ✔✔ To
ensure continuity of care from the hospital to the home
What do patients have the right to know and be informed about? - correct answer ✔✔ Their
diagnosis, prognoses, available treatments to help them make intelligent
Why is it important to educate the patient? - correct answer ✔✔ informed decisions about their
health and lifestyle
Why is it important to create a well-designed, comprehensive teaching plan that fits a patient's
unique learning needs? - correct answer ✔✔ Reduces health care costs, improved the quality of
care, ultimately changes behavior to improve patient outcomes
A good teaching plan will inevitably? - correct answer ✔✔ Help patients make informed
decisions about their care and become healthier and more independent
What does the Nurse Practice Act recognize about patient teaching? - correct answer ✔✔ Falls
into the nurses scope of practice
What are The Joint Commissions standards for patient and family education? - correct answer
✔✔ The standards require nurses and the health care team to assess patients' learning needs
and provide education about many topics (medication, nutrition medical equipment use, pain,
plan of care)
, What should you document in a patients medical record regarding education? - correct answer
✔✔ Successful patient education
What is the goal of educating others about their health? - correct answer ✔✔ Help individuals,
families, communities achieve optimal levels of health
What does providing education about preventative health care help? - correct answer ✔✔
Reduces health care costs and hardships on individuals, families and communities
Comprehensive patient education includes three important purposes? - correct answer ✔✔ -
Maintenance and promotion of health and Illness prevention
- Restoration of Health
- Coping with Impaired Fuctions
Greater knowledge results in - correct answer ✔✔ Better health maintenance habits
What happens when patients become more health conscious? - correct answer ✔✔ More likely
to seek early diagnosis of health problems
Examples of restoration of health - correct answer ✔✔ anatomy and physiology of body system,
medications, nutrition, diagnostic examinations, surgery
Examples of maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention - correct answer ✔✔
first aid, smoking/alcohol/substance abuse, stress management, nutrition, exercise, health
screenings
Practice Questions
What is one of the most important roles for a nurse in any health care setting? - correct answer
✔✔ Patient education
Why do nurses provide patients with information needed for self-care? - correct answer ✔✔ To
ensure continuity of care from the hospital to the home
What do patients have the right to know and be informed about? - correct answer ✔✔ Their
diagnosis, prognoses, available treatments to help them make intelligent
Why is it important to educate the patient? - correct answer ✔✔ informed decisions about their
health and lifestyle
Why is it important to create a well-designed, comprehensive teaching plan that fits a patient's
unique learning needs? - correct answer ✔✔ Reduces health care costs, improved the quality of
care, ultimately changes behavior to improve patient outcomes
A good teaching plan will inevitably? - correct answer ✔✔ Help patients make informed
decisions about their care and become healthier and more independent
What does the Nurse Practice Act recognize about patient teaching? - correct answer ✔✔ Falls
into the nurses scope of practice
What are The Joint Commissions standards for patient and family education? - correct answer
✔✔ The standards require nurses and the health care team to assess patients' learning needs
and provide education about many topics (medication, nutrition medical equipment use, pain,
plan of care)
, What should you document in a patients medical record regarding education? - correct answer
✔✔ Successful patient education
What is the goal of educating others about their health? - correct answer ✔✔ Help individuals,
families, communities achieve optimal levels of health
What does providing education about preventative health care help? - correct answer ✔✔
Reduces health care costs and hardships on individuals, families and communities
Comprehensive patient education includes three important purposes? - correct answer ✔✔ -
Maintenance and promotion of health and Illness prevention
- Restoration of Health
- Coping with Impaired Fuctions
Greater knowledge results in - correct answer ✔✔ Better health maintenance habits
What happens when patients become more health conscious? - correct answer ✔✔ More likely
to seek early diagnosis of health problems
Examples of restoration of health - correct answer ✔✔ anatomy and physiology of body system,
medications, nutrition, diagnostic examinations, surgery
Examples of maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention - correct answer ✔✔
first aid, smoking/alcohol/substance abuse, stress management, nutrition, exercise, health
screenings
