Adult Health Exam 1 Flashcards
Why is health promotion and education important?
It is the basis of all individual patient care. It aids nurses in promoting, maintaining, and restoring patient health. Along with preventing illness and helping people adapt to the residual effects of illness. Nurses are tools to assist patients and their families in developing effective health behaviors and altering lifestyle patterns that predispose people to health risks. It also helps patients to be able to care for themselves and make informed decisions on self-care so that they do not have to return to the hospital for further care in the future.
What is the goal of health education
The goal of health education is to teach people to live life to its healthiest…strive toward achieving their maximum health potential.
How do we know a patient is ready to learn?
Patients that have come to terms with their diagnosis and are motivated to move forward. A bad time to teach a patient is when the doctor just informed them that they have cancer. A good time to teach a patient is when they are sitting up in bed watching TV without family members.
-It is important that patient is motivated and know what this learning opportunity will provide to themselves.
What are barriers to education
Barriers to education include: demographic variables (level of education., gender, age, race), Illness variable (chronic, acute, severe, minimal), therapeutic regimen (length or side effects of regimen), psychosocial variables (mental status), financial variables, motivation.
- Non-compliant patients (elderly normally) are typically unsure of why they need to be doing something different than what they have their whole life. It can be caused by anxiety.
Learning readiness
Finding that teachable moment in the patient’s time. Physical readiness is important as well so that patient does not become frustrated with learning material. Emotional readiness can be promoted by creating a warm, accepting positive atmosphere with establishing realistic goals. Positive reinforcement is good. Make sure to give feedback to patient. BE POSITIVE.
Learning Environment
informal/formal, eliminate distractions, interpersonal aspects (verbal, video, pamphlet), and etcetera.
Teaching Techniques
discussion, group teaching, demonstration/practice, reinforcement/follow-up, lectures, motivational interviewing.
ADPIE
assessment of patient, diagnosis: find problem and give goals and outcomes, planning: what are we going to do to get to goal, implementation: adapt to family and patient on what they can and cannot provide to achieve goal, evaluation: how well did the plan work. If great, cool…if not, redo and think of what we could do differently to achieve goals.
