When planning an education class for clients suffering from addiction, the nurse recognizes that a format that encourages empowerment is an important goal of health teaching. Which of the following is a strategy that could be viewed as disempowering?
a. Providing the client with sufficient information
b. Providing the client with emotional support
c. Placing the learner in charge of his or her learning
d. Having the nurse assume primary responsibility for the learning process
Question 2The nurse is caring for a client who is suffering from schizophrenia and cocaine abuse. The client remains isolated in his room, refusing to attend unit activities. When implementing a behavioral approach, what is the first step the nurse should take?
a. Define specific consequences.
b. Describe the behavior requiring change.
c. Reframe the problem as a solution statement.
d. Identify the tasks in sequential order.
Question 3A nurse is working with a client in a drug rehabilitation center. The nurse provides positive reinforcement each time the client demonstrates behavior that moves him closer to accomplishing the goal of remaining drug free.
The nurse recognizes this type of reinforcement will motivate the client to engage in the desired behavior. This type of reinforcement is known as
a. empowerment.
b. chaining.
c. modeling.
d. shaping.
Question 4A theoretical foundation for the use of teaching methodologies in which a learner-centered approach engages clients as active partners in the learning process and helps them to take responsibility
for their own learning to whatever extent possible is known as
a. Skinner's behavioral approach.
b. Premack's principle.
c. modeling.
d. client-centered health teaching.
Question 5The nurse is caring for a client who has a history of alcohol abuse.
When formulating a goal that the client will be able to identify three physical effects of alcohol abuse, the nurse recognizes this goal as referring primarily to health teaching in which domain?
a. Cognitive
b. Affective
c. Psychomotor
d. Promoting acceptance
Question 6When the nurse formulates a goal that the client will be able to accurately draw up the correct dose of insulin, the nurse recognizes this goal as referring primarily to health teaching in which domain?
a. Changing attitudes
b. Psychomotor
c. Understanding content
d. Promoting acceptance
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