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Patient Education
Question | Answer |
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Effective patient education | helps patients become healthier and more independent. |
Goal of patient education | assist individuals, families, or communities in achieving optimal levels of health. |
JCAHO | sets standards for patient and family education. |
Maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention (pg. 177 box 10-2) | Society has more access to information; this makes people more likely to seek early diagnosis and treatment. e.g. immunizations, first aid, safety, avoiding smoking etc. |
Restoration of Health (pg 177 box 10-2) | Patients must be able to adapt to illness and be willing to learn to effectively educate a patient; including family sometimes helps. e.g. (factors r/t disease or condition) |
Coping with impared functioning (pg 177 10-2) | Patients who never fully recover from illnesses or injury may require new skills to continue ADL's. e.g. home care, rehab, PT, OT etc. |
Teaching | is an interactive process that promotes learning. It consists of a set of actions that helps individuals gain new knowledge or perform new skills. |
Learning | learning new knowledge or skills through practice and experience. |
Teaching and learning begin | when a person identifies a need for knowing or acquiring an ability to do something. |
Teaching is most effective when | it responds to a learner's immediate needs. |
The teacher identifies these needs by | asking questions and determining the learners interest. |
Referent | TEACHING ASPECT: perceived need to provide person with information. |
Sender | TEACHING ASPECT: Teacher that assists person in learning. |
Intrapersonal variables (sender) | TEACHING ASPECT: teachers philosophy of education (based on learning theory) teaching approach values, & emotions. |
Message | TEACHING ASPECT: content of information taught. |
Channels | TEACHING ASPECT: Methods used to present material(senses) |
Receiver | TEACHING ASPECT: learner |
Intrapersonal variables (receiver) | TEACHING ASPECT: Willingness and ability to learn. (physical and developmental health) |
Feedback | TEACHING ASPECT: determination of whether the learner achieved the learning objectives. |
Nurses role in teaching and learning | answering patients questions, and providing information and clarifying information. |
Learning objective | what the patient will be able to do after successful instruction. |
Effective communication | depends on the effectiveness of your communication skills. |
Return Demonstration | learner restates the received information or demonstrates learned skills. |
Learning occurs in 3 domains | cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. |
Cognitive learning (understanding) | what the patient knows and understands. |
Affective learning (values) | includes the patients feelings, attitudes, opinions and values. |
Psychomotor learning (motor skills) | patients require integration of knowledge and physical skills e.g. walking with a walker or giving an insulin injection. |
Motivation | internal impulse that causes a person to do something or take initiative to learn. |
Attentional set | mental state that allows the learner to focus on and understand the material. e.g. mental pictures to visualize ideas |
Physical conditions (pain, hunger, or fatigue) | impair a persons ability to concentrate. |
Ability to learn | is influenced by mental and physical capabilities. |
Teaching infant | consistency, smiling, speaking softly, & allowing infant to touch different textures. |
Teaching Toddler | Play, picture books, & use simple words |
Teaching Preschooler | role-playing, imitation & play; make it fun...pictures, short stories & encourage questions. |
Teaching School aged child | teach psychomotor skills, discuss & answer sessions. |
Teaching Adolescent | Teach about feelings & self expression, problem solving, & allow them to make positive health choices. |
Teaching young or middle adult | encourage independent learning, offer information, set mutual goals. |
Teaching Older adult | involve rested, alert patient in discussion of activity, focus on strengths, teach in short sessions, enhance sensory stimuli. |
Ideal learning room | good lighting and ventilation, appropriate furniture, and a comfortable temperature. |
Time to teach | when a patient enters the health facility, discharge, & home. |
Selling approach | uses 2 way communication; instruction is based on the patients response. |
Participating | you and the patient set objectives and participate in the learning process together. |
Entrusting | gives the patient the ability to manage self-care. |
Reinforcement | Feedback is a common reinforcement "Good job". |
Preparatory instruction | providing information about procedures. |
Analogies | add to verbal instruction by providing familiar images that make complex information more real and understandable. |
Discovery | useful for teaching problem solving, application, and independent thinking. |