CHAPTER 1
OVERVIEW OF EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE
Review Questions
1. True or False. Nurses must continue to
define their professional role, scope of
practice and expertise as central to the
practice of nursing.
2. Give the (3) definitions of health
education.
3. Main emphasis on the political trends
affecting health care.
a. Patient education.
b. Social issues.
c. Economic and social values.
d. Cost-containment measures to
restrain health service expenses.
4. True or False. To implement health
promotion and disease prevention, there
must be an increased attention to health
and well-being of everyone in the
society.
5. What does the state nurse practice acts
(NPAs) implements?
a. It universally includes teaching
within the scope of nursing
practice responsibilities.
b. By its legal mandate, nurses are
expected to provide instruction
to consumers to assists them in
maintaining optimum level if
wellness and manage illness.
c. Developed the first Certified
Nurse Educator (CNE) exam to
raise “the visibility and status of
the academic nurse educator
role”.
d. Both a and b.
6. It is from these roots that nurses have
expanded their practice to include
broader concepts of health and illness.
7. A deliberate intervention that involve
sharing information and experience to
meet intended learner outcomes
according to an education plan.
8. Set forth the national health goals and
objectives for next decade.
9. True or False. Knowing the practice
field is the same as knowing how to
teach the field.
10. True or False. Both education and
nursing process are ongoing, with
planning and implementation
perpetually redirecting the assessment
and evaluation.
11. It is the process of educating nursing
professionals regarding the care about
the individual, families, and
communities to maintain or recover
good health conditions.
a. Health Education
b. Patient Education
c. Nursing Health Education
d. None of these
12. Who is Florence Nightingale? What did
she contributed in the aspect of health
education?
13. Give the (7) organizations and agencies
promulgating standards and mandates.
14. How did the World Health Organization
(WHO) defined health education?
15. True or False. Patient teaching is
recognized as an independent nurse
function.
16. Responsible for establishing standards
and qualifications for nursing practice,
of which patient teaching is the key
element.
a. National League for Nursing
(NLN)
b. International Council of Nurses
(ICN)
c. Philippine Nurses Association
(PNA)
d. American Nurses Association
(ANA)
17. During the ancient times where there is
no effective diagnostic and treatment
diagnosis, what is the one of the most
common interventions before?
18. Nurses provide clients and their families
with the information and skills
necessary to manage their illness
independently. What is the role of the
nurse?
a. Educator Role
b. Professional Nurse Educator
Role
c. Client/Family Educator
d. Nurse Educator
19. True or False. An increasing number of
self-help groups exist to support clients
in meeting their physical and
psychosocial needs but its success does
not depend on the nurse’s role as teacher
and advocate.
20. They established mandates which
require agencies and organizations to
provide evidence of patient education
for the achievement of positive outcome
of patient care to receive accreditation.
21. Identified the course content in the
nursing school curricula.
a. National League for Nursing
(NLN)
b. International Council of Nurses
(ICN)
c. Philippine Nurses Association
(PNA)
d. American Nurses Association
(ANA)
22. True or False. It is a trend to recognize
lifestyle related diseases which are
largely preventable.
23. It is the vehicle to prevent malpractice
and incompetence of practitioners.
24. What are the focus of nurses’ teaching
efforts?
a. Care of the sick.
b. Educating other nurses for
professional practice.
c. Promoting the health of the well
public.
d. All of the above.

25. What did the Department of Health and
Services launched in January 2000?
26. How are the outcomes of education
process achieved?
27. In the early 1970's, they released a
statement on the Patient’s Bill of Rights
where it outlines the patients' rights to
receive current and complete
information about their diagnosis,
treatment, and prognosis.
28. True or False. The role of the nurse as
educator is not deeply entrenched in the
heritage and development of the nursing
profession.
29. The education process is a continuous
cycles that involves two interdependent
players: __________ and __________.
30. Greater emphasis is placed on outcome
measures, achieved primarily through
health education of clients.
a. Social issues.
b. Growth of managed care.
c. Federal initiatives outlined in
Health People 2030.
d. Health professionals becoming
increasingly concerned about
malpractice claims and
disciplinary action for
incompetence.
31. Aside from providing patient education,
what are the other (2) teaching roles of a
nurse?
32. True or False. Further investigation is
needed on the cost-effectiveness of
education efforts.
33. In 1918, they observed the importance
of health teaching as a function within
the scope of nursing practice. Two
decades later, they recognized nurses as
agents for the promotion of health and
prevention of illness in all settings in
which they practiced.
34. True or False. The Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations puts forth a broad set of
competencies it believed would mark
the success of the health professions in
the 21st Century.
35. Endorsed the nurse’s role as patient
educator to be an essential component of
nursing care delivery.
36. What is the two major interdependence
operations of the education process?
37. True or False. Demographic trends
influence the type and amount of health
care needed.
38. What are the (4) benefits of health
education to nursing staffs?
39. Regarding social trends affecting health
care, it is now recognized as the case of
major disparities in health and
healthcare delivery.
40. True or False. To be effective and
efficient, nurses must be willing and
able to work collaboratively with willing
 and able to work collaboratively with
other members of the healthcare team.
41. How are the outcomes of nursing
process achieved?
42. What is the purpose of patient, nursing
staff, and student education?
43. True or False. Consumers are
demanding increased knowledge and
skills about how to care for themselves.
44. Give the (7) benefits of health education
to patient.
45. It is a systematic , sequential, logical,
science-based, planned course of action
on the part of both the teacher and the
learner to achieve the outcomes of
teaching and learning.
a. Teaching
b. Education Process
c. Staff Education
d. Instruction
46. True or False. Healthcare providers
increasingly recognized client health
literacy as an essential skill to improve
health outcomes.
47. The education process focuses on the
planning and implementation of
_______ based on the:
a. Care; Assessment and diagnosis
of the physical and psychosocial
needs of the patient.
b. Teaching; Assessment and
prioritization of the client’s
learning needs, readiness to
learn, and learning styles.
48. True or False. The success of the nurse
educator’s endeavours in teaching is
measured by how much the content the
nurse imparts but rather how much the
person learns.
49. What are the (4) benefits of preceptor
education to nursing students?
50. What are the basic elements of the
education process?
51. In what instance does the nurse fail to
help a patient reach their own potential?
52. True or False. Illness can become an
educational opportunity… a ‘teachable
moment' when ill health suddenly
encourages patients to take more active
role in their care.
53. What is the single most important action
of nurse as educators?
54. True or False. The education process
can be compared to the nursing process
because the steps of each process run
parallel to the steps of other.
55. One aspect of teaching often used
interchangeably, which involves
communicating of information about a
specific skill in the cognitive,
psychomotor, or affective domain.
56. In this phase, the educator ascertains
learning needs, readiness to learn, and
learning styles.
 a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation
57. The nursing process focuses on the
planning and implementation of
_______ based on the:
a. Care; Assessment and diagnosis
of the physical and psychosocial
needs of the patient.
b. Teaching; Assessment and
prioritization of the client’s
learning needs, readiness to
learn, and learning styles.
58. It is a changed in behavior (knowledge,
skills, or attitudes) that can be observed
or measured and that occurs at any time
or any place resulting from exposure to
environmental stimuli.
59. In this phase, the educator develops a
teaching plan based on mutually
predetermined behavioural outcomes to
meet individual needs.
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation
60. The common thread uniting different
types of nurses who work in varied
areas.
61. What does the acronym ASSURE model
stands for?
62. Factors that impede the nurse’s ability to
deliver educational services.
63. True or False. Nurses act in the role of
educator for a diverse audience of
learners.
64. What are the (7) factors interfering with
the health professional’s ability to
teach?
65. Process of assisting people in learning
health-related behaviors that they can
incorporate into everyday life with the
goal of achieving optimal health and
interdependence in self-care.
66. Essential core of practice for registered
nurse to deliver holistic, patient-focused
care.
67. True or False. Despite the varied levels
of basic nursing school preparation,
legal and accreditation mandates haven’t
made the educator role integral to all
nurses.
68. In this phase, the educator performs the
act of teaching using specific teaching
methods and instructional materials.
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation
69. Process of influencing the behavior of
nurses by producing changed in their
knowledge, attitudes, and skills to help
them maintain and improve their
competencies for the delivery of high-
quality care to the consumer.
70. What are the (4) nurses function in the
role of educator?
71. Factors that negatively affect the ability c. “when to do”
of the learner to pay attention to and d. “which to do”
process information.
79. True or False. More attention is given
the needs of learners who have chronic,
72. In this phase, the educator determines long-term conditions than to those who
behavior changes in knowledge, have acute, short-term conditions.
attitudes, and skills.
a. Assessment 80. What must future research on patient
b. Planning and staff education address?
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation

73. True or False. More research is needed
on new teaching technologies, especially
computer-assisted modalities, distance
education, and Internet-based health
information sites.
74. Which factor serves as both a barrier to
teaching and an obstacle to learning?
81. What is the key to effective education
for patients, families, and nursing staff?
82. Nurses are called _______________
because they are educators who can
make a significant difference.

75. It is a useful paradigm originally

developed to assists nurses in organizing
and carrying out in the education
process.

76. What are the (9) factors interfering with

ability to process information?

77. True or False. The partnership

philosophy stresses the participatory
nature of the teaching and learning
process.

78. What does most non-research based

literature focuses on patient teaching?
a. “what to do”
b. “how to do”