Patient Education Flashcards
What are the different learning domains of Patient education?
- cognitive- thinking
- Affective- feeling
- psychomotor- the skill
How would you use the cognitive domain of learning?
teach the patient one their developmental level, and use their learning style to effectively teach
How would you use the affective domain of learning?
Have the patient reflect on their day.
How would you use the psychomotor domain of learning?
Teach the patient how to change a dressing and see if they can do it on their own
What are some factors that show that the patient is ready to learn?
- The person’s behavior coincides with medical/health advice
- they are not worried about getting back to their family
- when the timing is right
- When they start asking what they should do to help their care
What people should be included in patient education and why?
Parents, primary caregivers, spouses, and family members should be included because they are all involved in the pts care after they leave the healthcare facility.
What are some different strategies a nurse can use to teach their patients?
- have the patient write things down
- have the patient repeat things back to you
- Do the teaching in small sessions
- ask for a return demonstration
- provide repetition
- allow time for questions
- reading material at the 5th-grade level using nonmedical terminology
- Use stories to help relate information.
How do you know the patient is motivated to learn?
- the pt asking questions about how to care for themselves
- the pt asking for resources
- the pt listening and asking questions about discharge instructions or teaching
- the pt being involved in their care
What are the lifespan considerations for children regarding patient teaching?
- assess the child’s developmental level
- be directed toward the parent or primary caregiver
- Provide basic instructions at the child’s level
- Establish trust by addressing the child by name
- use a safe environment and a calm approach
- use props to demonstrate procedures
- Allow the patient to play with the equipment
What are the lifespan considerations for adolescents regarding patient teaching?
- assess the developmental level
- assess independence from parents
- acknowledge and respect fears and feelings
- use a calm environment
- involve pt in teaching effort facilitates trusting nurse-patient relationship
- focus on safety consequences and personal responsibility
What are the lifespan considerations for adults regarding patient teaching?
- developmental level, unique learning preferences, educational level, and cultural influences
- gather subjective and objective data
- allow time for questions and practice
- provide feedback, reassurance, support
- emphasize and prompt the importance of positive health practices
- actively involve pts in their care
- remember that nurses cannot control pts responses or change their habits
What are the lifespan considerations for older adults regarding patient teaching?
- focus on health promotion, disease management, illness/injury prevention, teaching with regard to meds and therapies for chronic illnesses
- center on nutrition, physical activity, personal safety, meds, need for follow-up health care appointments
- address aging factors that influence comprehension
- develop teaching plans ensuring maximal learning can occur
- allow adequate time for processing information and provide repetition
- include significant others or primary caregivers
- calm and peaceful environment
- allow time for questions and practice
What are the lifespan considerations for people with special needs regarding patient teaching?
- perform a complete assessment of the home environment, support system, and developmental level.
- Special needs patients could be homeless or not a 5th-grade education level
- doors in the home need to be at lead 36 in wide
- stress the importance of interprofessional interventions
What criteria allows the nurse to know that the patient understands patient education?
- they can repeat the information back to the nurse
- they can accurately demonstrate the teaching
- holds the learner’s interest
- involves the learner in the learning process
- they reach the goals for the teaching process
- the patient is compliant with the healthcare advice
- the pt is adhering to care after teaching
preparing an educational experience for a group: what, when, how to present material, cultural needs
- group discussions are good for adults
- non-English speaking= get an interpreter and find out healing beliefs
- It is best to start the class when a group has gathered. You don’t have to wait until everyone is there