Advanced Nursing Skills 1: Client Health Teaching Flashcards
What agencies require nurses to perform Client Health Teaching?
- Required by the state nurse practice acts
- Required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Required by the American Nurses Association’s Social Policy Statement
Who needs health teaching and why?
- All people of all age groups.
- Well-educated patients are better able to understand and manage their own health and medical care throughout their lives
What is informal teaching?
- Unplanned teaching
- Informal education can be defined as hands on training or on-the-job training and is typically not in the classroom setting.
- Without organization of time and content
- Decreased comprehension due to inadequate information
- Since there is no structure on how a topic is being taught, it is very easy to get off track and spend time on other topics rather then the main topic.
What is formal teaching?
- Formal teaching:
- is the development of a teaching plan serves as a model for client teaching
- Formal education refers to systematic, curriculum-based, teacher-directed learning that happens within an institution such as a school, college, or university. Formal education is based on a set curriculum.
What are the stages of learning?
- Recognition of what’s been taught
- Recall or description of information to others
- Explanation or application of information
- Independent use of new learning
What’s the purpose of recognizing the different stages of learning?
- By reconizing the diferent stages of leanring, you will be able to identify wheather or not the cureent teaching methods are effective.
- Adjustments can be made to the teaching methods as the situation dicates.
Before performing client teaching, what should the nurse take into consideration when assessing about the learners needs?
- Preferred learning style
- Age and developmental level
- Capacity to learn
- Motivation
- Learning readiness
- Learning needs
What is the importance of assessment prior to teaching?
- Assessing students’ prior knowledge allows an instructor to focus and adapt their teaching plan.
- For students, it helps them to construct connections between old and new knowledge.
What are the three learning styles?
- Cognitive Domain (Think)
- Processing information by listening or reading facts and descriptions
- Affective Domain (Feel)
- Processing information that appeals to a person’s feelings, beliefs, or values
- Psychomotor Domain(Doing)
- The psychomotor domain refers to the use of motor skills, coordination, and physical movement
Identify an example of each learning style
Cognitive Domain (Think)
- Rewrite the principles of test writing.
- Explain in one’s own words the steps for performing a complex task.
- Translate an equation into a computer spreadsheet.
Affective Domain (Feel)
- Demonstrates belief in the democratic process.
- Is sensitive towards individual and cultural differences (value diversity).
- Shows the ability to solve problems.
- Proposes a plan to social improvement and follows through with commitment.
- Informs management on matters that one feels strongly about
Psychomotor Domain(Doing)
- Use a personal computer.
- Repair a leaking faucet.
- Drive a car
What are distractions to learning?
- Literacy
- Sensory deficits
- Cultural differences
- Shortened attention span
- Readiness to learn
- Anxiety
What type of impact do distractions place on learning?
Distractions will make it harder to focus on the task at hand resulting in poor rention of the material or only being able to recall bits and pieces which ultimately affects thier overall learning.
What is anxiety according to the powerpoint?
- A subjective response occurring when person experiences a real or perceived threat to well-being.
- Diverse feeling of dread or apprehension.
- The psychological response to a threat.
- The most common emotional response to stress.
What types of strategies help to prevent and/or treat anxiety?
- Anxiety disorders are generally treated with psychotherapy, medication, or both.
