Patient education
This learning style benefits most from charts, diagrams, and pictures.
What is visual learning?
This stage of grief includes the statement, “This can’t be happening.”
What is denial?
Normal adult bowel frequency ranges from 3 times per day to this.
What is 3 times per week?
This is the first priority in the ABCs.
What is airway?
This stage of pressure injury presents as non-blanchable redness.
What is Stage 1 pressure injury?
This teaching method verifies that the patient truly understands instructions.
What is the teach-back method?
This ethical principle means “do no harm.”
What is nonmaleficence?
This type of enema is used to soften and lubricate stool.
What is an oil retention enema?
This preoperative verification prevents wrong-site surgery.
What is a surgical time-out?
This stage exposes bone or tendon.
What is Stage 4 pressure injury?
Teaching materials should be written at this grade level for most adults.
What is 6th grade reading level?
This document allows a patient to state healthcare wishes in advance.
What is an advance directive (living will)?
An adult enema tip should be inserted this many inches.
What is 3–4 inches?
This device helps prevent atelectasis after surgery.
What is an incentive spirometer?
These are the four phases of acute wound healing.
What are hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and maturation?
Older adults benefit from this visual adaptation during teaching.
What is large-print materials?
This type of care focuses on comfort when prognosis is 6 months or less.
What is hospice care?
Liquid stool leaking around hard stool may indicate this condition.
What is fecal impaction?
These medications are commonly held before surgery to reduce bleeding risk.
What are anticoagulants (blood thinners)?
This complication occurs when a surgical wound reopens.
What is dehiscence?
5 different learning styles to teach a family member and patient
What is Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, Kinesthetic, and Logical?
This condition is defined as irreversible cessation of all brain function.
What is brain death?
This type of ostomy produces liquid output and has a higher risk of dehydration.
What is an ileostomy?
This type of anesthesia is used for major surgeries and renders the patient unconscious.
What is general anesthesia?
This type of wound is covered in slough or eschar and cannot be staged.
What is an unstageable pressure injury?