Meagannicole Chapter 25 Quizlet/Definitions Flashcards
Patient Education
Nurses provide patients with information needed for self-care to ensure continuity of care from the hospital to the home
Patient Education Standards
Require health care team to assess patients’ learning needs and provide education about medications, nutrition, and medical equipment
Purposes of Patient Education
Promotion of health, illness prevention, restoration of health, and coping with impaired functions
Teaching
Implementation method to present procedures and techniques, inform patients about health status, and refer patients to health resources
Learning
Acquisition of new knowledge and skills as a result of reinforcement, practice, and experience
Teaching Process
Identify a patient’s need for information, set learning objectives, convey message using intrapersonal skills, and get feedback from patient
Learning Objective
Written statement that describes the behavior that a teacher expects from an individual after a learning activity
Domains of Learning
Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor
What is the nurse’s responsibility in patient education?
An ethical responsibility to teach patients to make informed decisions about their care
Cognitive Learning
Acquisition of intellectual skills that encompass behaviors such as thinking, understanding, and evaluating
Affective Learning
Acquisition of behaviors involved in expressing feelings about attitudes, appreciation, and values
Psychomotor Learning
Acquisition of ability to perform motor skills
Motivation
Internal impulse that causes a person to take action
Self-efficacy
Refers to a person’s perceived ability to complete a task successfully
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for infants?
Keep routines consistent, hold infant firmly while smiling and speaking softly to convey trust, and have infant touch different textures
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for toddlers?
Use play to teach procedure, offer picture books with story of children in hospital, and use simple words to promote understanding
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for school-age children?
Teach psychomotor skills needed to maintain health and offer opportunities to discuss health problems
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for adolescents?
Help express feelings and need for self-expression, allow them to make decisions about health, and use problem solving to help make choices
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for young or middle-aged adults?
Encourage teaching plan with mutual goals and independent learning, and offer information so they understand effects of health problem
Health Literacy
The cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health. An example is a patients’ reading and mathematics skills, comprehension, and ability to make health-related decisions
Functional illiteracy
Inability to read above a fifth-grade level
What are some teaching methods based on the developmental capacity for older adults?
Teach when patient is alert and rested, focus on wellness and strength, and use approaches that enhance patient’s reception of stimuli
Teaching
Telling, participating, entrusting, and reinforcing
Reinforcement
Use approach when a certain stimulus increases the probability for a response
Analogies
Resemblances made between things otherwise unlike
Return Demonstration
Display of knowledge after the patient has first observed the teacher and then practiced the skill in mock or real situations
Entrusting
Use approach when the patient accepts responsibilities and performs tasks correctly and consistently
