Learner Assessment and evidenced informed practice

Question 0

What is readiness?

Answer 0

refers to a person’s mindset and openness to engaging in a learning or counselling process for the purpose of adopting new behaviors

Question 1

What are factors that influences a learner

Answer 1

Readiness, motivation, ability to learn

Question 2

What must be consider in a person’s readiness

Answer 2

Physical, emotional, stage of adaptation

Question 3

Stages of adaptation

Answer 3

Denial(disbelief)
Developing awareness (anger)
reorganizing (bargaining)
resolution
successful adaptation (acceptance)

Question 4

What factors influences willingness

Answer 4

Health belief
sociocultural background
religious beliefs
past life experience
motivator

Question 5

explain a “teachable moment”

Answer 5

This moment takes place when a learner feels the need to know the information and has the capacity to learn it

Question 6

What are the domains of learning in relations to patient teaching

Answer 6

Cognitive Learning - when facts and knowledge is provided to the patient
Affective learning - when emotions, feelings, values, and motivations are used in learning
psychomotor learning - learning which includes hands-on, motor skills.

Question 7

what is evidenced informed practice

Answer 7

is the integration of the most informative research evidence with evidence from expert clinical practice and other sources to produce the best possible care for clients

Question 8

Define Nursing research

Answer 8

the systematic examining of phenomena important to the nursing discipline, as well as nurse, clients and family

Question 9

Identify Source of nursing knowledges

Answer 9

Empirics: Science of nursing
Esthetics: art of nursing
Personal Knowledge: therapeutic use of self
Ethics: moral component
Emancipatory Knowing: social, economic & political component

Question 10

Quantitative research

Answer 10

• study of a phenomena that can be measured and quantified
• tests theory
• identified cause and effect relationships
• one reality
• value free observation

Question 11

Qualitative research

Answer 11

• study of the lived experience, social process, culture
• generates theory
• increased understanding of the lived reality
• asks “what is the meaning of..”
• multiple realities
• value laden observations

Question 12

What are barriers to utilization

Answer 12

• absence of research
• lack of experience
• lack of motivation to change
• lack of time and money
• lack of clinical resourcesh