Patient education & health promotion

Question 1

Patient Education and Factors Affecting

Teaching/Learning (Slide 1 of 3)

Theory
1) Discuss the purposes of patient education.
2) Use patient teaching to promote the national goals
of health promotion and disease prevention as
listed in Healthy People 2030 and the Health
Canada.
3) Describe three ways in which people learn and
correlate the importance of these types of learning
to teaching.
4) List and differentiate between conditions and
factors that can affect learning.

Slide 2

Lesson 9.1

Question 2

Theory
5) Describe barriers to teaching and learning.
6) Identify adjustments to the teaching plan needed for
teaching the very young patients or older adults.
7) Discuss types of resources available to assist in
patient education.
8) Name three things that must be included in the
documentation of patient education.
9) Describe ways in which teaching can be continued
following hospital discharge.

Question 3

Clinical Practice
1) Assess an assigned patient’s learning
needs.
2) Develop an education plan based on the
patient’s learning needs.
3) Implement the teaching plan at a
prearranged time.
4) Evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching
and the plan.

Question 4

Purposes of Patient Education

Answer 4

➔ Preventing illness or promoting wellness.
➔ Nurses teach patients about their:
◆ Disease or disorder
◆ Diet and medications
◆ Treatment and self-care
➔ Prior to discharge, the patient must be taught how
to care for himself at home.
➔ With hospital stays being so short, patient
education become an even higher priority,
➔ Patient teaching begins at time of admission

Question 5

Purposes of Patient Education

Answer 5

⬤ Assessment of learning needs

Prepare a plan, assess learning needs

⬤ Factors affecting learning

Cultural values, confidence and abilities, readiness
to learn

⬤ Form a teaching plan

Collaborate with other health professionals

Question 6

Modes of Learning***

Answer 6

⬤ Visual learning

Through what they see

⬤ Auditory learning

Through what they hear
⬤ Kinesthetic learning

By actually performing a task or handling items

Question 7

Modes of Learning Cont.

Answer 7

Visual learning - Learn by seeing.
Auditioning learning - Learn best by hearing.
Kinesthetic learning - Learn best feeling or doing, experience.

Question 8

Assessment of Learning Needs

Answer 8

Knowledge of his disease
➢ Diet (if related to disease or condition)
➢ Activity regimen or limitations
➢ Medications (prescription and OTC)
➢ Self-care at home
➢ Prioritize learning needs so you can concentrate on
teaching essential knowledge first.
➢ Patients are sometimes embarrassed to tell the
nurse that they do not know what is being said by
the nurse. This happens even for patients with a
long-standing diagnosis. Everyone has assumed
they understood their condition.
➢ Learning issues are perpetuated by patients’ fear of
revealing their lack of understanding.

Question 9

Factors Affecting Learning***

Answer 9

Assess for factors that might interfere with the
patient’s ability to learn
Poor vision or hearing, impaired motor function,
illiteracy, and impaired cognition

⬤ Age may interfere with the strength or
dexterity for performing certain tasks

Question 10

Question 1.

As a nurse, Stephanie knows that teaching a patient is done.
to assist the prevention of illness or promotion of wellness.
All of the following are true regarding patient teaching.
except:

Answer 10

1) it is a process that begins within 48 hours of admission.

Question 11

Question 2.

Madison is a student nurse who finds it easier to
learn by performing a task. This is which type of
learning?

Answer 11

3) Kinesthetic learning.

Question 12

Question 3.

Aaron is a nurse working in a physician’s office
setting. If he is teaching a patient to draw up
insulin and watches the patient perform this
task, he is teaching in which domain?

Question 13

Question 4

Irene is working in a rural health department. She
spends most of her day teaching patients and
families. She realizes several factors affect learning.
Which one of the following choices affects learning?
Select all that apply.

Answer 13

1) Cultural values and expectations
2) Confidence and abilities
3) Readiness to learn
4) Environmental factors

Question 14

Question 5

Irene is working in a geriatric setting. She understand
when teaching the elderly she should:

Answer 14

4) Review the information frequently and check for
comprehension..