Behavioral Nursing Mock Interview
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Question 21 of 35
Describe a time you effectively instructed a patient on something they were struggling with learning?
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Dianne Barnard is a Registered Nurse and former nursing instructor. She is also board certified in Psychiatric Nursing and Holistic Nursing Critical Care.
Patients are often under a great deal of stress. The stress of a new diagnosis, worsening symptoms, and even the hospitalization may make them less attentive to instruction. The nurse must triage the patient's ability to comprehend novel and challenging directions, and factor in any other compounding variables such as cultural differences, pain, medications, and others. Optimal outcomes are achieved when the patient is compliant with treatment and understands what they need to do to be successful. Do your best to explain effective teaching methods here, like teaching through direct instruction or incremental lessons with return demonstrations, utilizing multi-sensory instruction, by providing verbal, written, and physical instructions when applicable.
Dianne Barnard is a Registered Nurse and former nursing instructor. She is also board certified in Psychiatric Nursing and Holistic Nursing Critical Care.
"During my home health rotation, I worked with a patient who said her medications weren't working, but they worked when she was in the hospital and in the rehab center for several weeks after discharge. I asked her to bring all of her medications out to the table, and they were tossed in a cardboard box with old and expired medications with no sense of order. She told me she took them faithfully everyday and never missed one. I looked at the bottles and noticed that they were all ordered on the same day of discharge but several bottles were full and others were almost empty. I asked her if I could help her organize her medications, call the pharmacy to help with automatic refills, and also get her a medication minder. We filled the 2-week minder together and that really helped her take the correct pills. The next visit, she happily reported that her meds were working again."
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