Unit 2 Week 4: Learning Theories and Models Flashcards
RNAO 9 Key Guidelines for Best Practice
- Create a shame and blame free environment
- Use universal precautions related to health literacy
- Assess the learning needs of the client
- Tailor your approach and educational design by collaborating with the client and interprofessional team
- Engage in more structured and intentional approached to facilitate learning
- Use plain language, pictures and illustrations to promote health literacy
- Use combinations of instructional strategy (PEMS, telephone, audio, visual, IT)
- Assess client learning
- Communicate the learning with client & team; document
RNAO 2 Key Guidelines for Educational Programs
- Introduce the “LEARNS” model into nursing curricula and continuing education
- Reflect on the “LEARNS” model into everyday practice
LEARNS Model Definition and 5 Components
RNAO Education Program Guideline
Stands for
Listen to Client Needs
Establish a partnership,
Adopt intentional approaches,
Reinforce health literacy,
Name new knowledge via teachback,
Strengthen self management with resources
§ Ensuring client centered care
§ Promotion of health literacy
§ Building knowledge and skills
§ Supporting self management
§ Shame and blame free
RNAO Key Guidelines for Organizations and Policy
- commit to adequate resources to support structured approaches to teaching
- Integrate the “LEARNS” model in the delivery of care
- develop documentation tools for support effective communication about client centered learning
- implement best practice guidelines
4 Learning Styles
Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, Kinesthetic
Best and Worst Test Type Visual Learner
Best: diagramming, reading maps, essays, anything showing a process
Worse: listen and respond tests
Characteristics of Visual Learner
- fast talkers, may interrupt
- learn by seeing charts and diagrams
- need quiet to study
- thinks in pictures
- take detailed notes
- like to sit at the front of class
Learning suggestions visual learner
- draw/outline information you need to remember
- copy what is on the board
- diagram sentences
- take notes and make lists
- colour codes, highlight, circle, underline
- flashcards
Best and worst test types auditory learners
Best: writing responses to lectures they’ve heard, oral exams
Worse: reading passages and writing answers in a timed test
Characteristics of auditory learners
- speak slowly, explain things well
- natural listeners
- tend to repeat things aloud
- think linearly
- read slowly
- prefer hearing rather than reading information
Learning suggestions auditory learners
- word association to remember facts
- record lectures and watch videos
- repeat facts with eyes closed
- participate in group discussion
- record notes after writing them
Best and worst test type kinesthetics learners
Best: short definitions, fill ins, multiple choice
Worst: long essays, tests
Characteristics of kinesthetic learners
- slow talkers
- learn by doing and solving real life problems
- hands on approaches
- can’t sit for long, fidgety
- take breaks when studying
- suffer from short attention spans
Learning suggestions kinesthetic learners
- study in short blocks
- take lab classes
- go on field trips
- study with others
- memory games and flashcards
8 Key Personality Types on Myers Briggs Test
- Extrovert v Introvert
- Sensors v Intuitives
- Thinkers v Feelers
- Judgers v Perceivers
5 Learning Theories
§ Behaviorist
§ Cognitive
§ Social learning theory
§ Psychodynamic
§ Humanistic
Behaviourism vs Cognitive, Social Learning, Psychodynamic and Humanistic theories
Behaviour: external conditions and environmental modification, passive learner
Cognitive, Social Learning, Psychodynamic and Humanistic theories: internal factors such as thoughts, how a learner processes information, their feelings and emotions, active learner
Behaviourism definition of learning
observable behavioral change that occurs in response to environmental stimuli.
Focus of behaviourism
modifying the environment with view that if you change the stimulus your can change the response.
In behaviourism the learner is
passive and reacts to the environment
What is the educator’s task according to behaviourism
- Manipulate stimuli and reinforce learning and change
- Reflective interpreter
- Posing questions to stimulate conscious awareness
Operant Conditioning: Positive vs Negative Reinforcers vs Punishment
Positive: adding something
Negative: taking something away
Reinforcement: increase behaviours
Punishment: decreases behaviour
Stimulus Generalization + application
initial learning experience easily applied to similar stimuli.
Think about your first 2nd year OSCE
Discrimination Learning + application
individual learns to differentiate between experiences as they gain experience
Think Simulation lab and repeat skills
Spontaneous Recovery
The idea that old patterns can resurface in behavior
Unlearning behavior is hard
Focus of cognitive learning theories
Internal needs of the learner
perception, thought, memory, ways of processing and structuring information – the way the patient thinks.. if you can change how they think you can change behaviour
Learning Process of Cognitive Learning
- Perceiving information in the environment
- Interpreting information
- Reorganizing information into new insights or understanding
- Intrinsically motivated; no need to use rewards