General goals for patient teaching include • Health promotion • Disease prevention • Illness management • Selection and use of appropriate treatment options
Challenge of nursing role Every interaction is a potential "teachable moment." Patient and caregiver teaching is challenging. Teachin...
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General goals for patient teaching include ✅• Health promotion
• Disease prevention
• Illness management
• Selection and use of appropriate treatment options
Challenge of nursing role ✅Every interaction is a potential "teachable moment."
Patient and caregiver teaching is challenging.
Teaching plans provide guidelines.
Regulatory agencies provide mandates.
Formal education- lecture setting
Most education is informal, one on one
Learnings ✅a persistent change in a person who as a result of an experience where
he or she acquired knowledge or skill
Teaching ✅An interactive and dynamic process that involves a change in a patient's
knowledge, behavior, and/or attitude in order to maintain or improve health
Adult learner ✅Adult learning principles
Models to promote health
Self-efficacy ✅Belief that one can succeed in a given situation
Helps strengthen commitment to change
Nurse as a teacher ✅Required competencies
- Knowledge of subject matter
O No jargon
O Turn off distractions
- Communication skills
O Show genuine care
Caregivers ✅Caregivers are important.
• About 1 in 4 adults provides care to someone on a daily basis.
• Older adult women are the most common, but not the only, family caregivers.
Needs of the caregiver are vital in the teaching-learning interaction.
Caregiver stress ✅one and four adults provide care to someone on a daily basis
• Responsibilities increase and change with progression of the illness.
• An experience for which most are not prepared
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