Ch 25 Flashcards
Importance of a teaching plan
A well-designed, comprehensive teaching plan provides a good fit with each patient’s unique learning needs and ultimately changes behaviors to improve patient outcomes. In due course the information gained helps patients make informed decisions about their care and become healthier and more independent
The primary goal of patient education is
-to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health
Comprehensive patient education includes three important purposes , each involving a separate phase of health care:
health promotion and illness preven- tion, health restoration, and coping.
Teaching
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
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 attitudes that can be measured and can occur at any time or in any place through exposure to environmental stimuli”
It is a process of both un- derstanding and applying newly acquired concepts. For example, an adult exhibits learning when he demonstrates how to set up his weekly pillbox correctly. He shows transfer of learning when he demonstrates how to set up his wife’s pillbox. Teaching and learning begin when a person identifies a need for knowing or acquiring an ability to do something. Teaching is most effective when it responds to a learner’s needs. An educator assesses these needs by asking questions and deter- mining a learner’s interests. Interpersonal communication is essential for successful teaching
The Joint Commission’s (TJC’s) Speak Up campaign helps patients understand their rights when receiving medical care and supports them to become more active participants in their care by asking ques- tions
• Speak up if you have questions or concerns. If you still do not under- stand, ask again. It is your body, and you have a right to know.
• Pay attention to the care you get. Always make sure that you are getting the right treatments and medicines from 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 so you can make informed decisions.
• Ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate (adviser or supporter).
• Know about your new medicine(s) and why you take them.
• 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 care. You are the center of the health care team. Medication errors are the most common health care mistakes.
Not using the teach-back method can lead to gaps in u
learning objectives
The steps of the teaching process are similar to those of the commu- nication process.
You use patient requests for information or identify a need for information because of a patient’s health restrictions, recent diagnosis of an illness, or a recent injury.
Then you identify specific learning objectives to describe the behaviors the learner will exhibit as a result of successful instruction (The steps of the teaching process are similar to those of the commu- nication process.
You use patient requests for information or identify a need for information because of a patient’s health restrictions, recent diagnosis of an illness, or a recent injury.
Then you identify specific learning objectives to describe the behaviors the learner will exhibit as a result of successful instruction.
Those objectives serve the same role as outcomes when delivering physical and psychological care.
DOMAINS OF LEARNING
Learning occurs in three domains: cognitive (understanding), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (motor skills) \
The most effective learning takes place when all three of these domains are used
Cognitive learning
Cognitive learning occurs when an individual gains information to further develop intellectual abilities, mental capacities, understanding,
and thinking processes
The revised taxonomy
for cognitive learning includes:
• Remember (formerly Knowledge): Recognizing or recalling knowledge from memory
-Understand (formerly Comprehension): Constructing meaning from different types of messages or activities, such as interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, or explaining
-Apply: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing or implementing
-Analyze: Breaking materials or concepts into parts, then determining how the parts relate to one another or how they interrelate, or how the parts relate to an overall structure or purpose
-Evaluate: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing
• Create (formerly Synthesis): Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing
Affective learning
Affective learning deals with learning how to express feelings and emotions and to develop values, attitudes, and beliefs needed toward improving health
The simplest behavior in affective learning is receiving, and the most complex is characterizing. Affective learning includes the following:
• Receiving: Learner is passive (not engaged) but is alert and willing to receive information.
• Responding: Requires active participation. This refers to a learner’s active attention to stimuli, verbal and nonverbal responses, and motivation to learn.
• Valuing: Attaching worth and value to the acquired knowledge (e.g., new coping skills) as demonstrated by the learner’s behavior through acceptance, preference, or commitment.
• Organizing: Developing a value system. Learner internalizes values and beliefs involving (1) the conceptualization of values and (2) the organization of a value system.
• Characterizing: Highest level of internalization. Acting and re- sponding with a consistent value system; requires introspection and self-examination of one’s own values in relation to an ethical issue or particular experience.
Psychomotor learning
Psychomotor learning involves the development of manual or physi- cal skills, such as learning how to walk or how to type on a computer
The simplest behavior in the hierarchy is fundamental (depending on the hierarchical model), whereas the most complex is origination. Psychomotor learning includes the following:
• Fundamental: Skills, movements, or behaviors related to walking, running, jumping, pushing, pulling, and manipulating. They are often components for more complex actions.
• Perception: Skills related to kinesthetic (bodily movements), vi- sual, auditory, tactile (touch), or coordination abilities as they are related to the ability to take in information from the environment and react.
• Guided response: Early stages of learning a particular skill under the guidance of an instructor that involves imitation and practice of a demonstrated act.
• Mechanism: Higher level of behavior in which a person gains con- fidence and proficiency in performing a skill that is more complex or involves several more steps than a guided response.
• Complex overt response: Smoothly and accurately performing a motor skill that requires complex movement patterns.
• Adaptation: Motor skills are well developed and movements can be modified when unexpected problems occur.
• Origination: Using existing psychomotor skills to create new movement patterns and perform them as needed in response to a particular situation or problem.
Motivation
Motivation is an internal state (e.g., an idea, emotion, or a physical need) that helps arouse, direct, and sustain human behavior
A patient’s motivation to learn is influenced by a belief in the need to know something. Patients who need knowledge for survival have a stronger motivation to learn than patients who need it for promoting health
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling and educational tech- nique that focuses on a patient’s perceived goals and helps people resolve insecurities and ambivalent feelings (e.g., nonadherence) to find the internal motivation needed to change their behavior (
social learning theory
-Among the various theories, social learning theory is one of the most useful approaches to patient education. It considers the personal characteristics of the learner, behavioral patterns, and the environment and guides the educator in developing effective teaching interventions that motivate and enhance learning
-according to social learning theory, a person’s state of mind and intrinsic motiva- tional factors (i.e., sense of accomplishment, pride, or confidence) reinforce behaviors and influence learning This type of internal reward system allows a person to attain desired outcomes and avoid undesired outcomes, resulting in improved moti- vation.
Self-efficacy
a concept included in social learning theory, refers to a person’s perceived ability to successfully complete a task. When people believe that they can achieve a particular behavior, they are more likely to perform the behavior consistently and correctly. Motivational interviewing techniques incorporate self-efficacy principles.
Self-efficacy beliefs come from four sources: verbal persuasion, vicarious experience, enactive mastery experience, and psychological and affective states