Health education

Question 1

Define 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)

Question 2

Describe what teaching is.

Answer 2

activities intended to produce learning

• very interactive process (participation)
• deliberate: helps to gain specific knowledge and skills

Question 3

What does health teaching allow?

Answer 3

• ppl to take control of their life/care
• earlier discharges
• day surgeries
• scientific achievements; can survive life threatening events
• improving publics awareness of health
• care done in hospital can be done at home
• extended life expectancy and coping with chronic illness

Question 4

describe the relationship between health teaching and health promotion.

Answer 4

health teaching is critical to health promotion

- it enables individuals to make choices that will improve health and well-being

Question 5

What is the primary goal of health teaching?

Answer 5

helping individuals, families, and communities achieve, through their own actions and initiative, optimal states of health

• voluntary
• behavioural change
• focus on wellness and care rather than illness and cure

Question 6

What are the three sub goals of health teaching?

Answer 6

1) maintaining and promoting health and illness
2) restoring health
3) optimizing quality of life when functions are impaired

Question 7

Describe some impacts of health education

Answer 7

• cost containment/savings
• higher level of health ed in population
• educated pts maintain health better with fewer complications
• pts more satisfied if they are taught

Question 8

How does pender’s health promotion model define health?

Answer 8

as “a positive dynamic state not merely the absence of disease”

Question 9

How does social learning/cognitive theory view health behaviour?

Answer 9

based on the belief that behaviour is the result of our expectations and incentives

Question 10

describe health behaviour changes in terms of social learning/cognitive theory.

Answer 10

based on the belief that behavior and incentives

SELF EFFICACY concept: one’s belief in ones own ability to meat goals. This guides their behaviour

Question 11

describe how the self efficacy concept of social learning/cognitive theory impact health behavior

Answer 11

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Question 12

Describe the role of the nurse in health teaching (6)

Answer 12

1) assess/identify client/learners needs and readiness to learn
2) provide appropriate health teaching
3) plan, implement and evaluate
4) establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship
5) maintain expertise and sensitivity to clients needs
5) legal/ethical responsibility