Health Education Team Flashcards
- Patients who are and whose family members are unaware of potential adverse effects or benefits of medications.
- Providing information in terms patients and family members can understand.
Giver of Information
Use ______ and _______, in which patients or family members restate information provided by clinicians or display newly taught skills to increase understanding and decrease confusion.
“teach backs” and “show backs”
means a gap between what someone knows and what someone needs or wants to know.
Learning Needs
- To assess the need for and to develop, manage and coordinate programs of clinical education for nurses/ patients.
- Clinical education facilitators are responsible for the selection and organization of training.
- Help the learner /patient become aware of what he/she needs to know and the value of learning.
Facilitator of Learning
The conversion of a nurse to a facilitator of learning means switching from _________ to ___________.
“content transmitter” to “process manager”
you have to ask questions so that you can derive a very good evaluation and assessment on what really are the health needs of your client
Questioning skills
you should know how to settle things especially if you will be asking assessing patients and also the family members.
Conflict management
you’ll be the ones who will be again leading the whole education process, organizing the whole process of teaching learning education
Leader
make sure that you’re aware of yourself, you know your strength and your weaknesses before you talk to the patient and before you teach them so you must be fully aware of your competencies, or skills as a provider of education or learning
Self-awareness
you must be somebody who is not intimidating so that your client will be what will open up to you
Approachable
you have to put yourself in the shoe of others, you have to feel what your clients are experiencing so that you would also appreciate your status right now and you would really understand the suffering, the pain, the happiness of your client
Empathetic
you must be able to detect if there are sad, happy, anxious or if they have understood something then you must be sensitive on their feelings and their needs
Sensitive
if there are conflicts in schedules, if there are some things that are not a going on based on your plan so you have to negotiate it properly. You have a good communication skills in order for you to organize the whole education process for your patient
Being able to negotiate
- Provide structure for learning
- Guide the learners
- Identify learning resources
- Encourage cultural competence by exposing the learners to clients in diverse settings
- Motivate learners
- Support them in the theoretical and clinical settings
- Act as a role model
Role of Facilitator
- Nurses are responsible for ensuring that patients are able to understand their health, illnesses, medications, and treatments to the best of their ability.
- A nurse should take the time to explain to the patient and their family or caregiver what to do and what to expect when they LEAVE the hospital or medical clinic.
Coordinator of Teaching