RN Exam Practice
Health Promotion and MaintenanceQuestion 788 of 2368

A nurse plans teaching for a client who will be hospitalized for several days. Which plan is most effective?

  1. Wait until the day of discharge and teach everything in one long session
  2. Teach only when the client's family asks for information
  3. Begin teaching on admission in short sessions and build on it with each contact
  4. Teach once on admission and avoid repeating the content
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Correct answer: Begin teaching on admission in short sessions and build on it with each contact

Teaching should begin at admission and build with each interaction until discharge, using 10-15 minute sessions.

Source: Nursing Health Promotion (Open RN, Chippewa Valley Technical College, 2025), Teaching & Learning: General Principles of Health Teaching. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Practice the topic "Health Promotion and Maintenance"

Questions last reviewed: 18 October 2026