The goals of a well-designed, comprehensive teaching plan include - ️️providing a
good fit with each patient's unique learning needs, reducing health care costs, improving
quality of care, and ultimately changing behaviors to improve patient outcomes.
Maintenance and Promotion of Health and ...
Nurs 3105 exam 3 Patient Education
The goals of a well-designed, comprehensive teaching plan include - ✔️✔️providing a
good fit with each patient's unique learning needs, reducing health care costs, improving
quality of care, and ultimately changing behaviors to improve patient outcomes.
Maintenance and Promotion of Health and Illness Prevention - ✔️✔️-As a nurse you
are a visible, competent resource for patients who want to improve their physical and
psychological well-being.
-Success in patient education is the ability for them to incorporate knowledge in way
that promote health
Patient education is one of the most important nursing interventions in any health care
setting - ✔️✔️`
Patient education is a key component in terms of enhancing a patient's quality of life,
improving self-care, reducing hospital admissions, and improving medication adherence
- ✔️✔️
Standards for patient education - ✔️✔️All state Nurse Practice Acts recognize that
patient teaching falls within the scope of nursing practice
The Joint Commission sets standards for - ✔️✔️patient and family education
Joint Commission Standards - ✔️✔️require nurses and all health care providers to
assess patients' learning needs and provide education on a variety of topics, including
medications, nutrition, use of medical equipment, pain management, and the patient's
plan of care.
Primary goal of patient education is - ✔️✔️to help individuals, families, or communities
achieve optimal levels of health
What are the 3 purposes of comprehensive patient education - ✔️✔️health promotion
and illness prevention, health restoration, and coping.
Restoration of Health - ✔️✔️As the nurse, you learn to identify patients' willingness to
learn and motivate interest in learning. Injured or ill patients need information and skills
to help them regain or maintain their levels of health.
, Comping with Impaired Function - ✔️✔️Many patients with impaired function have to
learn to cope with permanent health alterations. New knowledge and skills are often
necessary for patients to continue activities of daily living.
Comping with Impaired Function involving the family - ✔️✔️The family's ability to
provide support results in part from education, which begins as soon as you identify the
patient's needs and the family displays a willingness to help. Teach family members to
help the patient with health care management
Teaching and Learning
*IMPORTANT to differentiate - ✔️✔️Teaching is the concept of imparting knowledge
through a series of directed activities. It consists of a conscious, deliberate set of
actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new
behaviors, or perform new skills
Learning is defined as a "conscious or unconscious permanent change in behavior as a
result of a lifelong, dynamic process by which individuals acquire new knowledge, skills,
and/or aitudes that can be measured and can occur at any time or in any place through
exposure to environmental stimuli"
Role of the Nurse in Teaching and Learning - ✔️✔️Teach information that patient and
family need to make informed decisions regarding their care
Determine what patients need to know
Identify when patients are ready to learn
The Joint Commission's Speak Up Program help patients understand their rights when
receiving medical care - ✔️✔️• Speak up if you have questions or concerns. If you still
do not understand, ask again. It is your body, and you have a right to know.
• Pay aention to the care you get. Always make sure that you are geing the right
treatments and medicines by the right health care professionals. Do not assume
anything.
• Educate yourself about your illness. Learn about the medical tests that are prescribed
and your treatment plan.
• Ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate (adviser or supporter).
• Know which medicines you take and why you take them. Medication errors are the
most common health care mistakes.
• Use a hospital, clinic, surgery center, or other type of health care organization that you
have researched or checked carefully.
• Participate in all decisions about your treatment. You are the center of the health care
team.
Carefully determine what patients need to know, their preferences and existing
knowledge and then find time to educate them when they are ready to learn - ✔️✔️
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