Effective communication with healthcare professionals is crucial for patients to express their needs and ensure appropriate treatment. Patients may need to advocate for themselves to receive care. The scenario involving David illustrates cognitive learning through his engagement with a diabetes educator.

1. Answer the Questions Below:
1. As a patient, why is it important to be able to communicate with healthcare
professionals?
A. Explaining your needs and symptoms helps you receive the right treatment.
B. Good communication uses the busy healthcare professionals time as efficiently as possible.
C. It is the patients responsibility to put a nurse or doctor at ease.
D. If you dont communicate, you wont receive any treatment.
2. Patients must sometimes advocate for themselves to receive care.
A. True
B. False
3. David was diagnosed with diabetes and had to start testing his blood sugar several times
a day. He met with a nurse who is a diabetes educator, and she talks him through how
different foods will affect his blood sugar numbers. This scenario is an example of what
type of activity?
A. cognitive learning
B. psychomotor learning
C. affective learning
D. patient advocacy