A nurse provides teaching about coping with long-term impaired functions.Which situation serves as the best example?

A) Teaching a family member to give medications through the patient's permanent gastric tube.
B) Teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her pathology reports.
C) Teaching expectant parents about physical and psychological changes in childbearing women.
D) Teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches.

Not all patients fully recover from illness or injury.Many have to learn to cope with permanent health alterations.New knowledge and skills are often necessary for patients and family members to continue activities of daily living.Teaching family members to help the patient with health care management (e.g. ,giving medications through gastric tubes,doing passive range-of-motion exercises)is an example of teaching them how to cope with long-term impaired functions.Injured and ill patients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their levels of health.Some examples of this include teaching a woman who recently had a hysterectomy about her pathology reports and expected length of recovery and teaching a teenager with a broken leg how to use crutches.In childbearing classes,expectant parents are taught about physical and psychological changes in the woman and about fetal development;this is part of health maintenance.