Question

Patient Education Activity

1. Identify the discharge and teaching needs of your patients.

2. How will the patient’s developmental level, age, and culture affect your teaching?

3. Identify who you will teach, their literacy level, and their knowledge base related

to the information you will be teaching.

4. Use the following questions to focus your teaching planning.

5. Develop a concept map to explain the factors influencing your teaching of the

patient.

Guiding questions:

1. Is the patient/family ready to learn?

2. What learning outcomes must occur before the patient/family can be discharged?

3. What are the patient/family’s perceived learning needs?

4. Are there parries to learning (language, literacy, stress, physical distractions)?

5. How does the patient/family wish to have information presented (verbal, written,

chart/diagram)?

Answer 1

Question no:1

Discharge and teaching needs of the patients

1. Is the one of the criteria to accredit institutions for providing halth services
2. Putting value on education
3. Maintaining professional activities
4. Acquiring teaching oriented atmosphere
5. Avoiding conflict
6. Maintain coherence of education
7. Following appropriate communication skills
8. Patient’s right in education
9. Developing motivation skills
10. Following rewarding system in the education
11. Good supervision and proper control over the group

Question no:2

Factors affecting teaching:

Developmental age:

1. It is very important to consider the patient’s age and developmental level,
2. Assess the developmental age by following factors- patient’s physical maturation and mental abilities, psychosocial development
3. Cognitive capacity
4. Assess the patient level
5. After assessing, determine what are the specific needs required for the patient.
6. Choose language and teaching methods appropriate for the aptient’s age and educationa level
7. Assess the beliefs about health and illness
8. Assess the cultural and religious practices of the patient
9. Awareness of patient’s cultural values

Question no:3

Literacy level and knowledge level:

1. Assess the patient educational level
2. Choose language and teaching methods based on their understanding level of knowledge
3. Patients’ reading level and ability to learn to be assessed
4. Assess the patient hear clearly or read small printed materials

Question no:4

Questions to focus the teaching plan:

1. Length of stay
2. Limited time for teaching
3. Print and audio visual aids
4. Individualized instructions
5. Correcting misconceptions
6. Identifying the learning needs
7. Set goals/ priorities
8. Implement teaching
9. Evaluating the teaching
10. Make the teaching process interactive

Question no:5

Factors influencing teaching of the patient:

Physical factors:

1. Noise
2. Light

Psychological factors:

1. Pain
2. Fatigue
3. Anxiety
4. Fear
5. Inability to learn

For nurses:

1. Motivation
2. Readiness
3. Understanding of the teaching plan

Guiding question:

Question no:1

Patient interest

1. Family members/ patient are the vital links in the transition from hospital to home care
2. They must include in discussions and demonstrations.
3. Following instruction
4. Asking questions when something is not explained clearly
5. Giving accurate health information regarding their health condition

Question no:2

Learning outcomes:

These outcomes are divided into 3   categories:

1. Patient’s benefits
   1. Long term changes
   2. Developing self-care decisions
   3. Independent behaviors

1. Social benefits
   1. It is necessary to health promotion
   2. Prevention of diseases
   3. Process of adaptation

1. Professional benefits:
   1. Developing professional ethics
   2. Maintaining professional attitude

Question no:3

Learning needs

1. Setting the goals for learning
2. Specified the problems for learning
3. Patient interest
4. Acquiring knowledge
5. Learning style
6. Patient’s educational and literacy level

                                                                                          

Question no:4

Barriers to learning

1. Trust worthiness
2. Credibility
3. Transferability
4. Dependability
5. Conformability
6. Prolonged engagement
7. Peer debriefing
8. Time triangulation
9. Member checking
10. Language
11. Inappropriate organizational education

Question no:5

Family/ patient presentation:

1. Acquiring knowledge
2. Asking questions
3. Providing feedback
4. Listening the topic carefully
5. Following instructions
6. Time maintaining is important
7. Providing interest in teaching