While Providing Health Teaching to an Older Patient of Asian

question 11

Multiple Choice

While providing health teaching to an older patient of Asian descent the nurse notes that the patient agrees to all questions the nurse asks. What method should the nurse use to determine that the patient understands health teaching?

• A) Use simple language that the person can understand.
• B) Have another member of the person's family do the teaching.
• C) Ensure that there is an interpreter nearby while doing the health teaching.
• D) Ask the person to give an explanation, in their own words, of the health teaching.

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