Chapter 25 Flashcards
What is the purpose of patient education?
- Provide safe patient centered care
- Preventative health care
- Help individuals, families, and communities achieve optimal levels of health through their own actions
Topics of patient education
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
Teaching and learning
Teaching = imparting knowledge Learning = acquisition of knowledge
Nurses role in teaching/learning
- 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
What is the SPEAK-UP initiative?
- 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
What does SPEAK-UP stand for?
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
Teaching plans
- 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
Good learning environment
Well lit, appropriate furniture, quiet, good ventilation, comfortable temperature, private, in good hearing range of the teacher
Learning barriers
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
3 domains of learning
Cognitive (brain) - Learning new facts Affective (emotional) - Attaching worth and value to acquired knowledge Psychomotor (coordination/skills) - Practicing a demonstrated act