LESSON 1 Flashcards
is a topic of utmost interest to
nurses in every setting in which they
practice
Education
is an important aspect of the
nurse’s professional role whether it be
educating patients and their family
members, colleagues, or student nurses
Teaching
learned essential knowledge and skills for
independent care
patients and their significant other
acquired the up-to-date
knowledge and skills needed to competently
and confidently render care to the consumer in
a variety of settings
staff nurses and
nursing students
Process that informs, motivates,
and helps people to adopt and
maintain healthy practices and
lifestyles.
Health education
principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to
behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or
restoration of health.
Health education
AIMS OF HEALTH EDUCATION
- Increase health knowledge
- Encourage healthy behaviors
- Prevent diseases
- Improve overall well-being
Understand the body, its functioning,
and how to maintain good health.
Increase health knowledge
Adopt a balanced diet, regular exercise, sufficient sleep, and avoid smoking and excessive alcohol consumption
Encourage healthy behaviors
Learn about specific risk factor and modify your lifestyle accordingly
Prevent diseases
Build or induce changes in attitudes and behaviors conducive to healthier living
Improve overall well-being
observed sports competitions in honor of their gods and goddesses.
Ancient greek
Greeks believed in what _____ had envisioned bout health
Pluto
A sound mind in a body; for the good of the soul
Pluto
came from the efforts of the early healers (physicians, herbalists, midwives, and shamans) in giving patient advice bout treating his/her ailments
Prehistoric times
Inform, encourage, and caution patients to follow appropriate hygienic and therapeutic measures
Earliest healers
Emergence of nursing and other health professions, technological the developments, the emphasis on the patient-caregiver relationship,
spread of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, and the growing interest in the welfare of mothers and children
Formative period (mid 1800s - 20th century)
Florence Nightingale advocate of the educational responsibilities of district nurses
Formative period (mid 1800s – 20th century)
Florence Nightingale authored _____
Health Teaching in Towns and
Villages
Public Health Nurses provided instruction to mothers of newborns on how to keep their infants healthy.
Formative period (mid 1800s – 20th century)
described as a time of relatively quiet for patient education
period from 1930 through 1960
patient education began to be seen as a specific entity where emphasis was placed on
educating individual patients rather than providing general public health education
1960s and 1970s
A publication from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare titled The Need for Patient Education emphasized a concept of patient education that provided information
about disease and treatment as well as teaching patients how to stay healthy
1971
Who issued a message to Congress using the term Health Education
President Nixon