NUR 220 Exam 3
- health literacy
Answer the unique ability of a patient to understand and integrate health-related knowledge
the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions
- personal health literacy vs organizational health literacy
Answer organizations equi- tably enable individuals to find, understand, use info
- low literacy vs low health literacy
Answer reading and writing PLUS numeracy (measuring and calculating)
- patient education
Answer prevents disease, promotes health, providing treatment instructions, clarifying information, coping with limitations
- formal patient education
Answer planned, goal directed, large groups or 1 on 1
- informal patient education
Answer patient directed, situation and patient specific, prompted by a patient
- primary school education
Answer 1 / 3
basic health and wellness literacy, handwashing, toothbrushing, nutrition
- teaching
Answer imparting knowledge/giving intructions
- learning
Answer acquiring knowledge or skills through instruction or experience
- cognitive domain of learning
- psychomotor domain of learning
Answer includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking (memorize and recall)
Answer involves acquiring skills that require integration of mental and muscular activity (motor skills, demonstrate and return demonstration)
- affective domain of learning
Answer deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or values
13. VARK
Answer assessment tool for learning styles, verbal, aural, read/write, kinesthetic, multimodal,
REPITITION
- multimodal learner
Answer patient's learning is facilitated when more than one style of learning is used 2 / 3
- factors affecting health literacy and patient teaching
Answer age and developmental stage
patient's roles environment timing availability of resources evidence based practice
- assessment of health literacy
Answer information on forms is incomplete/inaccurate, patient requests to take home written documents, misses appointments/comes
during unscheduled times, do not follow through with tests or referrals, struggles with meds and treatments, states compliance but tests show otherwise
- intravenous access
Answer surgical puncture of a vein to deliver medication or with- draw blood (either peripheral IV or central line access)
- advantages to IV access
Answer immediate access for fluid/electrolyte maintenance or replacement
meds via IV route have faster onset and more predictable effects provides access for supplemental or total nutrition replacement allows for transfusion of blood and blood products
- 6 rights! of medication administration
Answer patient, time, dose, route, medication, documentation
- classes of IV fluids
- / 3
Answer crystalloids, colloids