Question

Shiree is a community health nurse educator who works on an Army base. Shiree’s responsibilities include teaching soldiers about their respective illnesses and conditions and how to best manage these in order to transition back to duty. Shiree’s clients experience a range of illnesses and conditions, including amputations, heart disease, battle wounds, and posttraumatic stress disorder. 1. Before Shiree embarks on educating a new client, she should determine the client’s: A. Eating schedule B. Emotional readiness C. Laboratory results D. Writing skills 2. Shiree’s clients come from all walks of life. What are some of the barriers to learning that Shiree may encounter with this population? Discuss. 3. Shiree develops behavioral objectives to decide which content and activities to use in her teaching. How should Shiree classify these behavioral objectives? Discuss.

Answer 1

1.The nurse educator should focus on the emotional readiness of the soldiers before embarking education on new client

2.Some of the barrier which Shiree could encounter with this population are

• Dominancy by the soldiers
• Hesitancy in learning field to their knowledge
• Any medical conditions physical or psychological
• Trust, hopeless or insecurity of the future life

3.The behavioral objective should be classified in the following ways

• To formulate instructional objectives to achieve the goal
• Based on the intelligence of the new client under cognitive classification
• Using the affective domain inform pr psychological emotions and thoughts
• Physical activities under psychomotor domain