• an essesntial component of

nursing care
• directed toward
promotion, maintenance, and
restorationn of health and
toward adaptation to the
residual effects of illness
• Assist the patient in
physial readiness to learn
• try to alleviate physical
distress that may distract the
patient's attention and
prevent effective learning
• Patients may have negative
feelings and emotions related
to their limited reading
ability or limited
understanding. (institute of
Medicine, 2004)
• the health cara
environment can make it har
for patients to tell us they
don't read well or do not
understand.
• they hide this with a variety
of coping techniques

• Patients may have negative feelings and emotions related

to their limited reading ability or limited understanding.
(institute of Medicine, 2004)
• the health cara environment can make it har for patients to
tell us they don't read well or do not understand.
• they hide this with a variety of coping techniques