Adult learning Flashcards
What is the retention rate for what we: read hear see see and hear say and do
10 20 30 50 80
What are the main teaching strategies for adult learners
- Use different teaching stratigies keeping the retention in mind
- address the three domains of learning
What are the three domains of learning?
- Cognitive
- Affective
- Psychomotor/ kinesthetic
Adult learners need to have a ___ with the information presented
Personal connection
What are some questions to ask that probe changes?
What do you think is happening right now for you to be getting these results?
What bothers you the most about (whatever the current problem is)?
How much (of the current problem) are you willing to put up with?
What are the outer limits of your definition of acceptable control right now?
What range of blood glucose levels do you define as your goal?
What is the sequance of events in learning?
- Motivation
- Apprehension
- Acquisition
What is the sequence of events in memory?
Retention
recall
generalization
What is the sequence of events in responce?
Performance and feed back
What are the two types of feedback?
Psychomotor and affective/cognative
What are the 4 C’s of an excellent nurse-teacher?
Confident
Competent
Communication
Caring
Use ___ to prioritize patient learning needs
Maslow
What are the components of teaching documentation?
Initial assessments of understanding, reassessments
Nursing diagnoses and patient needs, priorities
Interventions planned
Interventions (education) provided
Patient’s response, outcomes of care education provided
Patient and family ability to manage needs after discharge
What aspects fall under Confidence?
- Selects what to teach
- Alleviates the patient’s anxiety
- Provides appropriate learning environment
- Prepares appropriate teaching and material
What aspects fall under Competence?
- Decides what is important to teach
- Ensures the patient’s safety
- Provides individualized written instructions
- Teaches home management of special problems
What aspects fall under Communication?
- Gives clear directions
- Uses simple pictures or models
- Speaks the patient’s language
What aspects fall under Caring?
- Has empathy
- Recognizes patient concerns
- Provides encouragement
- Ensures adequate time
- Sensitive to patient’s mood
Define apprehension
exposure to the stimulus that is taken in and processed using discriminative abilities; mildly anxious patients attend to the stimulus with greater care than those who are not anxious
Define Acquisition
includes changes that occur in the CNS and undergird and concretize the new material; if there is a CNS dysfunction, the new material may not be acquired
Define retention
previously apprehended material is stored in the nervous system as memory; age may be an intervening factor - elderly have more problems with retention of recent events and information than events or information previously retained
Define recall
retrieval; the learner is able to retrieve the new capabilities for an external observer or teacher
Define generalization
sometimes referred to as transfer of learning; the pt. is able to retrieve something learned and apply it within a different situation or context i.e. sterile technique
Define performance
observable behavior and a demonstration that a change has occurred
Define feedback
last phase of learning and occurs through reinforcement
What is Psychomotor learning feedback -
automatic as successful performance of the newly learned information serves as feedback
