- Identify the learner: the patient, family, significant other,
or caregiver.
- Determine priority of learning needs within the overall care
plan.
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client gets adequate knowledge about his health. |
- Render physical comfort for the patient.
- Grant a calm and peaceful environment without
interruption.
- Provide an atmosphere of respect, openness, trust, and
collaboration.
- Include the patient in creating the teaching plan, beginning
with establishing objectives and goals for learning at the
beginning of the session.
- Consider what is important to the patient.
- Involve patient in writing specific outcomes for the teaching
session, such as identifying what is most important to learn from
their viewpoint and lifestyle.
- Explore reactions and feelings about changes.
- Support self-directed, self-designed learning.
- Help patient in integrating information into daily life
- Give adequate time for integration that is in direct conflict
with existing values or beliefs.
- Provide clear, thorough, and understandable explanations and
demonstrations.
- Give information with the use of media. Use visual aids like
diagrams, pictures, videotapes, audiotapes, and interactive
Internet websites, such as Nurseslabs.
- Check the availability of supplies and equipment.
- Note progress of teaching and learning.
- Help patient identify community resources for continuing
information and support.
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- Based on Maslow’s theory, basic physiological needs must be
addressed before the patient education. Ensuring physical comfort
allows the patient to concentrate on what is being discussed or
demonstrated.
- A calm environment allows the patient to concentrate and focus
more completely.
- Conveying respect is especially important when providing
education to patients with different values and beliefs about
health and illness.
- Goal setting allows the learner to know what will be discussed
and expected during the session. Adults tend to focus on
here-and-now, problem-centered education.
- Allowing the patient to identify the most significant content
to be presented first is the most effective.
- Patient involvement improves compliance with health regimen and
makes teaching and learning a partnership.
- Assessment assists the nurse in understanding how the learner
may respond to the information and possibly how successful the
patient may be with the expected changes.
- Patients know what difficulties will transpire in their own
environments, and they must be encouraged to approach learning
activities from their priority needs.
- This technique aids the learner make adjustments in daily life
that will result in the desired change in behavior.
- Informatiom that is in direct conflict with what is already
held to be true forces a reevaluation of the old material and is
thus integrated more slowly.
- Patients are better able to ask questions when they have basic
information about what to expect.
- Different people take in information in different ways.
- Adequate preparation is especially important when teaching in
the home setting.
- Documentation allows additional teaching to be based on what
the learner has completed.
- Learning occurs through imitation, so persons who are currently
involved in lifestyle changes can help the learner anticipate
adjustment issues. Community resources can offer financial and
educational support.
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Client feels more confident in his/her knowledge. |