A client newly diagnosed with a chronic condition that will significantly change the lifestyle must learn aspects of self-care. The client exhibits severe anxiety: increased blood pressure and pulse,...

A client newly diagnosed with a chronic condition that will significantly change the lifestyle must learn aspects of self-care. The client exhibits severe anxiety: increased blood pressure and pulse, headache, and nervousness. Based on this situation, how would the nurse appropriately plan the teaching?

1. Recognize that the client’s ability to learn is severely impaired and teach only the immediate, critical needs and plan to follow up and reinforce this teaching later.

2. Recognize that the client’s learning will be adaptive and begin immediately to implement the full teaching and learning plan.

3. Recognize that the client’s ability to learn will be slightly impaired and modify the usual teaching strategies to accommodate for this impairment.

4. Recognize that the client cannot learn at this time, that the level of anxiety must first be reduced, and then teaching can be based on this new level of anxiety.