Education in Health Care

Question 1

What is education?

Answer 1

Giving/receiving of systematic information

Question 2

What is health education?

Answer 2

Continuous/complex teaching learning process throughout lifespan that’s implemented through client/health professional partnership to facilitate/empower pt to innate lifestyle behavioural changes to promote positive health status outcomes

Question 3

What does education in healthcare involve?

Answer 3

Health education, health info, pt education, counseling, coaching, health promotion, and discharge teaching

Question 4

Why is education in healthcare important?

Answer 4

It helps improve pt health literacy, improves health outcomes, fosters collaborative pt centred approach, and increase autonomy

Question 5

Teaching vs learning?

Answer 5

Teach- share info/experiences, its intentional/planned/accidental

Learn- outcome/product, acquisition of knowledge/attitude/skills, its observable and measurable