Teaching and Learning Flashcards
maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention
as a nurse you are a resource for patients who want to improve their physical and psychological well being.
restoration of health:
injured or ill patients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their level of health.
coping with impaired function:
many patients have to learn to cope with permanent health alterations.
teaching
interactive process that promotes learning
learning
acquisition of new knowledge, behaviors and skills
learning objective
describes what the learner will be able to do after successful instruction.
cognitive learning
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
affective learning
receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing.
psychomotor learning
integration of mental and muscular activity, ranging from perception to origination.
attentional set
the mental state that allows the learner to focus on and comprehend a learning activity.
motivation
force that acts on or within a person, causing the person to behave in a particular way.
self-efficacy
a persons percieved ability to successfully complete a task.
learning in children
learning and behaviors depend on the childs maturity. without proper physiological, motor, language and social development, many types of learning cannot take place.
adult learning
adults are able to reflect on their current situations critically but some times need help to see their problems and change their perspectives.
physical capability
the ability to learn often depends on a patients level of physical development and overall physical health.
learning needs
- information or skills needed by a patient to perform self care and understand implications of a health problem
- patient experiences that influence the need to learn
- information that family caregivers require to support the patients needs.
motivation to learn
- behavior
- health beliefs and sociocultural background
- peception of the severity and sucespitibility of a health problem
- percieved ability to perform needed health behaviors
- desire to learn
- attitudes about health care providers
- learning style preference
ability to learn
- physical strength
- sensory deficets
- patients reading level
- patients developmental level
- patients cognitive level
- pain, fatigue, depression or anxiety.
teaching environment
- distraction or persistent noise
- comfor of the room
- room facilities and available equipment
resources for teaching
-teaching stools, brochures, audiovisual material, or posters.
telling
the nurse outlines the task the patient will perform and gives explicit instructions.
participating
the nurse and patient set objectives and become involved in the learning process together.
entrusting
provides the patient with the opportunity to manage self care.
reinforcement
using a stimulus that increases the probability for a response.
