Health Education

Question 1

What is Health Teaching?

Answer 1

“Health teaching is a specialized form of teaching, defined as a focused, creative, interpersonal nursing intervention whereby the nurse provides information, emotional support, and health-related skill training to clients” (A&B, 2007, p. 360)

Question 2

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Answer 2

Participatory
Goal oriented - to maximize health and well-being
Planned

Question 3

Teaching - Define:

Answer 3

Activities intended to produce learning.

- Interactive and Deliberate

Question 4

Health Promotion effects:

Answer 4

Earlier Discharge
Day Surgeries
Live Longer - survive trauma, ect. more frequently
Public More Health conscious
Home Care more Prevalent

Question 5

What does health education Involve?
What is the primary goal?

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Answer 5

• Helping individuals, families, and communities achieve, through their own actions and initiate, optimal states of health.
• Voluntary
• Changes in Health Behaviour
• Focus on wellness and care rather that illness and cure.