Scenario #1: Community Health Nurse
A community health nurse works for an organization whose primary focus is prevention of illegal drug use among children. Is the nurse working for a health restoration organization or a health promotion organization? What is the difference?
Scenario #2: College Campus Nurse
A college campus nurse recommends offering a safe driving class following the death of a popular classmate who was killed by a drunk driver. The nurse senses that the students are inspired and that the content is both relevant and valuable at this time. There are eight factors that affect learning (Blais & Hayes, 2016, pp. 156-159). Which factor has the nurse identified for the student population?
Scenario #3: Ostomy Education Nurse
A ostomy education nurse encounters a patient with a new ostomy who will not attend scheduled education sessions. Which category of Bloom’s affective domain correlates to a willingness to attend?
Scenario #4: School Nurse
A school nurse is coordinating a series of influenza immunization clinics that will be provided free of cost to students. Which level of prevention is the nurse facilitating? Explain your answer.
Scenario #5: Faith Community Nurse
A faith community nurse wants to use Healthy People 2020 as part of the guiding framework for nursing practice. Which statement represents an appropriate rationale for this choice?
The mission of Healthy People 2020 is to identify national health improvement priorities.
The mission of Healthy People 2020 is to encourage all people to change health behaviors.
Scenario #6: Diabetic Nurse Educator
The diabetic educator nurse is writing a learning objective for a teaching session. The nurse recognizes that the learning objective is the primary determinant of the content for the teaching session. Which of the following learning objectives meets all of the criteria for a complete and correctly written learning objective? Explain your answer.
The client will understand how type-2 diabetes develops by the end of the second teaching session.
At the end of the teaching session the client will list three strategies for control of blood sugar.
Part B: Implementing and Evaluating Education
Scenario #7: Public Health Nurse
A public health nurse is leading a health-promotion group with a focus on increased physical activity for well-being. Is the nurse’s primary role a care provider or a facilitator? What is the difference?
Scenario #8: Home Health Nurse
A home health nurse demonstrates the procedure for self-injection of medication and then asks the patient to perform a return demonstration. Which category of Bloom’s psychomotor domain is represented by a return demonstration?
Scenario #9: Critical Care Nurse
A critical care nurse is attempting to educate a family member concerning the recent intubation of their loved one. The family member is crying hysterically. Which factor that inhibits learning does the nurse recognize?
Scenario #10: Work-Site Nurse Educator
A work-site nurse educator recognizes that they are facilitating the educational needs of people with varied, but limited health literacy. Based on Table 8-3 in Blais and Hayes (2016) name (2) two strategies that the nurse educator should employ. Explain your rationale for selection.
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