Chapter 1 Flashcards
Health Education
The goal of health education is to help clients improve their health by changing their behavior through the provision of knowledge and learning opportunities. Learning occurs when there is a flow of information between the instructor and the student, which helps both parties to better comprehend why change is necessary.
Health Education
Health education is the process of giving someone knowledge and learning experiences that will help them change their behavior in a way that is better for their health. People can better understand the need for change when they learn new things by exchanging information with each other (teacher and student).
Purpose of Health promotion and Disease Prevention
- A means of Propagating Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- May be used to modify or continue health behaviors if necessary
- Provides Health Information and Services
- Emphasizes on Good Health Habits and Practices which an Integral Aspect of Culture, Media and Technology
- A means to communicate vital information to the public
- It is also a form of Advocacy
A means of Propagating Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health education talks about how a person’s mental, emotional, social, and physical health are all connected. Its purpose is to look at how nature and health are connected in ways that improve health and lower client risk
May be used to modify or continue health behaviors if necessary
Health education teaches people how to be self-reliant and how much responsibility they have for their own health growth. It also teaches people how to do their own health assessment.
Provides Health Information and Services
Health education gives people knowledge, products, and services about health. Additionally, it shows that you can assess health information resources from home, school, and the community. Health education also shows people how to get to school and community health programs for themselves and others. It is also used to figure out how much healthcare costs and how easy it is to get, as well as to figure out when professional health services are needed.
Emphasizes on Good Health Habits and Practices which an Integral Aspect of Culture, Media and Technology
Cultural factors affect how people take care of their health and the care they receive from healthcare workers. Health education looks at these effects. On a personal, family, and group level, it looks at how media, technology, and other things affect health. In order to help people in the community understand and follow what they are being taught about how to be self-reliant, health education looks at the knowledge that is needed to reach out to them.
A means to communicate vital information to the public
Health education healths the family, peers and others to communicate their needs, wants and feelings effectively to enable them to resolve health conflicts and problems. This is done to communicate care, consideration and respect for themselves and others. It also helps analyze possible causes of conflict and in the formulation of strategies for solutions without harming oneself or other.
It is also a form of Advocacy
Health Education looks at how well different ways of teaching people how to properly express health information and ideas work. It gives correct knowledge and opinions about things that have to do with health.
Education Process
is a methodical, sequential, rational, empirically grounded, premeditated course of action comprising two fundamental interconnected operations: instruction and acquisition of knowledge. This procedure constitutes a perpetual loop encompassing two interdependent participants: the instructor and the student. Collectively, they collaboratively engage in educational and instructional endeavors, resulting in the intended modification of behaviors for both parties involved.
Nursing Process is composed of:
- Assessment - appraise physical and psychological needs
- Planning - develop care plan based on mutual goal setting to meet individual needs
- Implementation - carry out nursing care intervention using standard procedures
- Evaluation - determine physical and psychosocial
Education Process comprises of:
- Assessment - ascertain learning needs, readiness to learn, learning
- Planning - develop teaching plan based on mutually predetermined behavioral outcomes to meet individual needs
- Implementation - perform the act of teaching using specific teaching methods and instructional
- Evaluation - determine behavior changes in knowledge, attitude, and skills
Learning
It’s a change in behavior (knowledge, attitudes, or skills) that can be seen or observed and can happen anywhere and at any time because of environmental factors. People actively gain knowledge, skills, and attitudes through learning, which changes their behavior in some way. The nurse educator’s training is judged by how much the student learns, not by how much information the nurse educator gives.
Patients’ education
Health education is a method of helping individuals acquire knowledge and skills relevant to their well-being, which they may then apply in their daily lives to attain the highest level of health and self-sufficiency
Importance on Health Education
- Enhance knowledge awareness
- Promotes health, safety, and security of the people
- Develop and improve community resources
- Increase productivity and strength of character
- Disease prevention
- Minimize cost