GCU HLT306 2019 September Week 4 Quiz latest

HLT306 Advanced Patient Care

Week 4 Quiz  

What is the healthcare professional legally responsible to do in patient education?

 Inform the patient about their care

 Explain any procedures they will undergo

 Check for patient understanding

 All of the above

2 Examples of patient noncompliance include:

 Missing Appointments

 Not taking prescribed medication

 Dietary or lifestyle changes

 All of the Above

3 Why was there more concern with preventative health care starting in the fifties?

 Prosperity of the average household

 Polio and other diseases could be prevented with immunization

 Close family ties

 All of the above

4 What is multicultural patient education?

 Using an interpreter to do the patient education

 Adapting patient education to the cultural needs of the patient and family

 Expecting the patient to understand English

 Avoiding a patient who is not of the healthcare professional’s ethnicity

5 Which of the following has been found to be one of the most important factors in patient compliance?

 Communication

 Written material

 Family input

 Pre-appointment reminders

6 Which of the following are considered relationship skills? 

 Empathy

 Acceptance

 Trust

 All of the Above

7 What are the goals of patient education?

 To help the patient understand

 To explain concepts to the patient

 To help the patient incorporate healthcare into his life

 All of the above

8 Which of the following is an example of patient compliance?

 A patient forgetting to pick up a prescription.

 A patient sharing medication with a family member.

 A patient arriving to appointments on the correct day and time.

 A patient underutilizing prescribed medication.

9 What percentage of patients has been found to be noncompliant with health recommendations?

 10%

 20%

 50%

 90%

10 What is the healthcare professional’s role in teaching the patient at different life stages?

 To follow procedures and protocols

 To adapt patient education to the life stage of the patient

 To delegate responsibility to another healthcare professional

 To skip patient education if the patient is young, deaf, blind or old

11 Which of the following would be considered life-stages?

 Menopause

 Teenage

 Senior Citizen

 All of the above

12 Which of the following are the three categories of learning?

 Cognitive, affective, psychomotor

 Affective, psychosocial, cognitive

 Psychosocial, behavioral, affective

 Psychomotor, cognitive, psychosocial

13 Why is the need for patient education expanding?

 Aging population is growing rapidly

 Growth of new technologies

 Earlier discharge from hospital

 All of the above

14 What is acculturation?

 The patient is strongly attached to the culture he came from

 The patient lives on the reservation

 The patient refuses to speak the language of the new environment

 The patient intermingles willingly in the new culture and adopts its culture

15 Which of the following is one form of nonverbal behavior?

 Explaining a procedure to a patient

 Kneeling down to the patients level before speaking

 Checking for understanding

 Giving the patient material to read