Chapter 25 Flashcards

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What is the purpose of patient education?

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  • Provide safe patient centered care
  • Preventative health care
  • Help individuals, families, and communities achieve optimal levels of health through their own actions
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Topics of patient education

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Health promotion and illness prevention
- Better health maintenance habits
Restoration of health
- Identify patients’ willingness to learn and motivate interest in learning
Coping with impaired functions
- New knowledge and skills are often necessary to continue ADLs

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Teaching and learning

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Teaching = imparting knowledge
Learning = acquisition of knowledge
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Nurses role in teaching/learning

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  • Deliver accurate, complete, and relevant information to the patients’ needs, language, and literacy
  • Allows the patient/family to make informed decisions about their care
  • Ethical responsibility to teach patients
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What is the SPEAK-UP initiative?

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  • Goal: help patients and their advocates become active in their care
  • Patients right to be informed about their care: preferred language, names of caregivers, treatment for pain, list of current medications, treated with respect
  • Medical interpreter must be present if there is a language barrier
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What does SPEAK-UP stand for?

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S: speak up if you have questions
P: pay attention to the care you get
E: educate yourself about your illness
A: ask a trusted family member or friend to be your advocate
K: know which medicines you take and why you take them
U: use health care organizations that have been checked carefully
P: participate in all decisions about your treatment

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Teaching plans

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  • Be certain that the patients individualized needs are being addressed
  • What exactly does the patient need to know (don’t give too many complicated details)
  • Patient motivation and ability to learn
  • Who else might be involved (family, friends, spouse)
  • Learning environment
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Good learning environment

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Well lit, appropriate furniture, quiet, good ventilation, comfortable temperature, private, in good hearing range of the teacher

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Learning barriers

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Anything that stands in the way of effective learning

  • Illiteracy and/or disabilities
  • Cultural diversity
  • Wrong teaching tools
  • Special needs of children and older adults
  • Emotional state
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3 domains of learning

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Cognitive (brain)
- Learning new facts
Affective (emotional) 
- Attaching worth and value to acquired knowledge
Psychomotor (coordination/skills) 
- Practicing a demonstrated act
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