NUR 101 Unit 3, P&P: 12 – Patient Education 2026 – Study Guide and Practice
Questions
Health education is aimed at the: - ANS✔✔ •promotion
•restoration
•and maintenance of health.
Teaching is most effective when it is: - ANS✔✔ •responsive to a learner's needs
-and requires the learner's active involvement.
Teaching is a form of interpersonal communication, with: - ANS✔✔ teacher and student actively
involved in a process that increases the student's knowledge and skills.
Teaching a patient a specific behavior involves: - ANS✔✔ incorporation of behaviors from all
three learning domains.
influence willingness to gain knowledge & skills necessary to maintain health: - ANS✔✔ A
person's health beliefs
as a result of developmental capabilities: - ANS✔✔ Patients of different age-groups require
different teaching strategies
before providing patient education: - ANS✔✔ Assess reading ability & ability of patient to
understand health information
Patient teaching is: - ANS✔✔ culturally sensitive and individualized to meet the needs of each
patient.
, A patient is an active participant in a: - ANS✔✔ •teaching plan:
-agreeing to the plan
-helping to choose instructional methods
-and recommending times for instruction.
improves a learner's attentiveness and involvement: - ANS✔✔ A combination of teaching
methods
Teaching methodologies should: - ANS✔✔ match a patient's learning needs.
Learning objectives describe: - ANS✔✔ what a person is to learn in behavioral terms
A patient has been started on a diuretic for hypertension and needs to learn about the side
effects of the medication. Understanding this information requires learning in the _____
domain. - ANS✔✔ COGNITIVE DOMAIN
Learning about side effects requires intellectual comprehension of information.
Which of the following interventions implemented by the nurse when caring for a patient who
recently had a stroke indicates that the nurse is incorporating teaching with nursing care? -
ANS✔✔ *Time teaching sessions to coincide with times when the patient's baby is hungry.
Provide patient teaching when the patient is well rested and the baby is not crying.
Include the patient's spouse in educational sessions if it is okay with her.*
Appropriate timing of teaching enhances achievement of outcomes; the patient is more able to
pay attention to teaching; and including family in teaching sessions enhances success if the
patient wants the family to be involved. Assessment of the patient's feelings and beliefs should
occur before the teaching session.
3.
Questions
Health education is aimed at the: - ANS✔✔ •promotion
•restoration
•and maintenance of health.
Teaching is most effective when it is: - ANS✔✔ •responsive to a learner's needs
-and requires the learner's active involvement.
Teaching is a form of interpersonal communication, with: - ANS✔✔ teacher and student actively
involved in a process that increases the student's knowledge and skills.
Teaching a patient a specific behavior involves: - ANS✔✔ incorporation of behaviors from all
three learning domains.
influence willingness to gain knowledge & skills necessary to maintain health: - ANS✔✔ A
person's health beliefs
as a result of developmental capabilities: - ANS✔✔ Patients of different age-groups require
different teaching strategies
before providing patient education: - ANS✔✔ Assess reading ability & ability of patient to
understand health information
Patient teaching is: - ANS✔✔ culturally sensitive and individualized to meet the needs of each
patient.
, A patient is an active participant in a: - ANS✔✔ •teaching plan:
-agreeing to the plan
-helping to choose instructional methods
-and recommending times for instruction.
improves a learner's attentiveness and involvement: - ANS✔✔ A combination of teaching
methods
Teaching methodologies should: - ANS✔✔ match a patient's learning needs.
Learning objectives describe: - ANS✔✔ what a person is to learn in behavioral terms
A patient has been started on a diuretic for hypertension and needs to learn about the side
effects of the medication. Understanding this information requires learning in the _____
domain. - ANS✔✔ COGNITIVE DOMAIN
Learning about side effects requires intellectual comprehension of information.
Which of the following interventions implemented by the nurse when caring for a patient who
recently had a stroke indicates that the nurse is incorporating teaching with nursing care? -
ANS✔✔ *Time teaching sessions to coincide with times when the patient's baby is hungry.
Provide patient teaching when the patient is well rested and the baby is not crying.
Include the patient's spouse in educational sessions if it is okay with her.*
Appropriate timing of teaching enhances achievement of outcomes; the patient is more able to
pay attention to teaching; and including family in teaching sessions enhances success if the
patient wants the family to be involved. Assessment of the patient's feelings and beliefs should
occur before the teaching session.
3.
