Question

1. How would you evaluate a patient’s ability to understand your instruction and their current knowledge base about their problem? What characteristics of the patient would be helpful?
2. How would you be certain that the patient understands your medication instruction?
3. What methods of therapeutic communication would be useful in advanced practice?

Answer 1

There are some methods to understand the patients capacity to understand and their knowledge level.

• Always ask the patient to restate instruction in their own language .
• Ask some questions to identify their area of intrest.
• Provide some simple questaniers before and after teaching.
• Allow the patient to solve problem in hypothical situation.

By proper answering to quetion by the patient we can confirm that patient understand our medication instruction.

Some patients are agitated some are coopertaive.Beter understanding and acceptance of learning helps in this teaching method.

The methods useful in therapeutic communication by

• Acceptin
• Giving recognition.
• Offering self.
• Active listening.
• Summarizing.
• Reflection.
• Sewking clarification.
• Making observations.
• Focusing.