NUR 228 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
1. maintain and promote health and sickness prevention.
2. restoring health 3. managing compromised functions - ANSWER What are the
three components of comprehensive patient education?
Teaching is an interactive process that promotes learning. It consists of a conscious,
planned set of acts that assist individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes,
adopt new behaviours, or execute new skills.
Learning is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and
abilities.
Cognitive learning refers to any intellectual acts that require thinking, such as
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and assessment.
Affective learning - ANSWER deals with expressing feelings and accepting
attitudes, ideas, or values; encompasses receiving, responding, valuing, organizing,
and categorizing.
Psychomotor learning comprises developing abilities that require the integration of
mental and physical activity, such as the capacity to walk or use an eating utensil;
encompasses perception, set, guided reaction, mechanism, complex overt response,
and origination.
Motivation is a force that acts on or inside a person to cause them to behave in a
specific way.
Self-efficacy is a notion in social learning theory that relates to an individual's
perceived ability to successfully accomplish a task.
, health literacy - the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and
ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways
that promote and maintain good health; includes the patient's reading and math
skills, comprehension, ability to make health-related decisions, and successful
functioning as a consumer of health care.
Functional illiteracy is the inability to read beyond the fifth-grade level.
reinforcement - ANSWER needs to provide a stimulus that improves the chance of
a response, e.g. feedback.
Return demonstration - ANSWER learners get the opportunity to practice the skill.
analogies - ANSWER augments verbal instruction with familiar images that make
complex knowledge more real and understandable. For example, arterial blood
pressure is similar to the flow of water through a hose.
Spirituality is the awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connectedness to a
higher being, nature, or some purpose greater than oneself.
self-transcendence - ANSWER a feeling of really connecting with one's inner self
transcendence - the conviction that a power outside of and greater than the human
exists beyond the material world, for example, cradling a baby or looking at a
sunset.
connection - answer intrapersonally (oneself), interpersonally (others), and
transpersonally (unseen, God, higher power).
Atheist - ANSWER: do not believe in the existence of God