Health Literacy and Patient Education Flashcards
What is health literacy
The unique ability of a patient to UNDERSTAND and INTEGRATE health-realted knowledge.
The degree to which individuals have the ability to FIND, UNDERSTAND, and USE information and services to INFORM ehalth-realted DECISIONS and ACTIONS for THEMSELVES and OTHERS.
How can there be organizational health literacy
Equitably enable individuals to FIND, UNDERSTAND, and USE info. Ex. not everything on the phone
What is low literacy vs. low health literacy
Reading and writing PLUS NUMERACY
What is the nurses role of health literacy
EDUCATION which is key for helath PROMOTION and WELLNESS
What is included in paitnet education
PREVENTING disease, PROMOTING health, providing treatment INSTRUCTIONS, CLARIFUING information, COPING with limitations
PPICC
What are the types of patient education
In/formal
What is formal patient education
PANNED, GOAL-directed, GROUPS or INDIVIDUAL
What is informal patient education
Patient DIRECTED, situation and paitent SPECIFIC, prompted by a patient QUESTION
What do we learn in primary school education
HAndwashing, toothbrushing, nutrition
What is important about patient education related to teaching vs learning
Pt has to COMPREHANEND and UNDERSTAND info
What are the domains of learning
Cognitive, psychomotor, affective
What is cognitive doamin
MEMORIZATION and RECALL
What is psychomotor domain
PHYSCIAL movement, DEMONSTRATION and RETURN demonstration
What is the affective domain
EMOTIONAL, consider FEELINGS, VALUES, MOTIVATIONS, and ATTITUDES
Ex. pt can’t learn if they are stressed and crying
What are the VARK learning styles
Verbal- you have to be able to explain it
Aural- you have to hear it
Read/write- visual
Kinesthetic- hands-on
How to best learn
Multimodal and repetition
The majority of the united states population reads at what grade level
5th grade
What are some cures that your pt has inadequate health literacy
Info is INCOMPLETE or INACCURATE on FORMS, take documents HOME, pt MISSES appointments, does not FOLLOW through, NONCOMPLIANT, LYING about taking meds
What are some examples of literacy realted hypotheses
Lack of knowledge, ready to learn, literacy problem
What is data integration
Start with familiar concepts and progress to complex or abstract ideas
What is the teach back method
The pt teachs what they learned
What to document for education
WHAT, HOW, WHO, and REACTION
What is proficient health literacy
READ and INDENTIFY CREDIBKE info, UNDERSTAND NUN+MBERS, MAKE appointments, FILL our FORMS, have RECORDS, ask QUESTIONS, ADVOCATE, use TECHNOLOGY and PROGRAMS
