PT Education Flashcards
Why is patient education important?
essential component of safe, patient-centered care
standard for professional nursing practice
falls within the scope of nursing practice
What do we teach?
health analogies
restoration of health
coping with impaired functions
promotion of health and illness prevention
Teaching description
transmission of intentionally structured and sequenced information to a recipient
utilizes an interactive process that promotes learning
Teaching purpose
produce a change in behavior
Learning description
purposeful acquisition of measurable factors through an experience or external stimulus
Learning factors
new knowledge
attitudes
behaviors
skills
Nursing Action: Determine
what patients and families need and want to know
Nursing Action: Identifying PT’s
existing knowledge
learning preferences
readiness to learn
Nursing Action: Information Essentials
accurate
complete
relevant to the PT’s needs
timely
Nursing Action: Assist and Promote
assist the patient to make informed decisions regarding their care
promote the patient’s understanding: the positive effects of change through education
Cognitive Description
includes intellectual behaviors
requires thinking, storage/recall of information
Cognitive Tools
one on one instruction
written materials
Affective Description
expression of feelings
development of attitudes, opinions, or values
Affective Tools
one to one counseling
role play
Psychomotor Description
acquisition of skills
requires coordination and integration
mentally
physically
“hands on skill”
Psychomotor Tools
demonstration/return demonstration
practice