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1
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Factors influencing the importance of quality education

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  • shorter hospital stays
  • increased demands on nurses’ time
  • increase in the number of chronically ill patients
  • need to give acutely ill patients meaningful information
2
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Each states’ Nurse Practice Act recognizes ____________ as within the scope of nursing practice

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patient teaching

3
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___________ is an essential component of providing safe, patient-centered care

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patient education

4
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___________________________ helps reduce healthcare costs and hardships on individuals, families, and communities.

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providing education about preventative health care

5
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Education efforts should be patient-centered by considering what factors?

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  • patient’s education and experience
  • their desire to actively participate in the process
  • their psychosocial, spiritual and cultural values
6
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What are the three important purposes of education?

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  1. Maintenance and Promotion of Health and Illness Prevention
  2. Restoration of Health
  3. Coping with Impaired Functions
7
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Maintenance and Promotion of Health and Illness Prevention through patient education

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  • promoting healthy behavior through education allows patients to assume more responsibility for their health care.
  • when pts are more health conscious, they are more likely to seek early diagnosis of health problems.
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Restoration of Health through patient education

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  • education helps to regain or maintain levels of health

- family caregivers often require as much education as patient

9
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Coping with impaired functions through patient education

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  • not all patients fully recover from illness or injury
  • the family’s ability to provide support results in part from education which begins as soon as you identify the patient’s needs and the family displays a willingness to help
10
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Teaching

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A conscious deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new behaviors, or perform new skills

11
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Learning

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purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skills

12
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Complex Patterns of Learning Include

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  • learning new skills
  • changing existing attitudes
  • transferring learning to new situations
  • solving problems
13
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Speak Up initiative includes

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  • speak up if you have questions/concerns
  • educate yourself about your illness
  • pay attention to the care you get
  • ask a trusted family member/friend to be your advocate
  • know your medicines
  • participate in all decisions about your treatment
14
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Learning Occurs in 3 Domains:

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  1. Cognitive (understanding; QSEN=knowledge)
  2. Affective (QSEN=Attitudes)
  3. Psychomotor (QSEN=Motor Skills)
15
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In cognitive learning, include all intellectual behaviors that requires thinking, such as:

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  1. knowledge
  2. comprehension
  3. analysis
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analysis

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breaking down information into organized parts

17
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Affective Learning

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deals with expression of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions or values.

18
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Affective learning includes the following

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  1. receiving: attention
  2. responding: active participation through listening, reacting verbally and nonverbally
  3. valuing: attaching worth to an object or behavior
  4. organizing: developing a value system, resolving conflicts
  5. characterizing: acting and responding with a consistent value system
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Psychomotor Learning

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Involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and muscular activity.

20
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Psychomotor learning includes the following:

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  1. perception
  2. set
  3. guided response
  4. mechanism
  5. complex overt response
  6. adaptation
  7. origination
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Psychomotor Learning: Set

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readiness to take a particular action (3 sets: mental, physical, emotional)

22
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Psychomotor Learning: Guided Response

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performance under the guidance of an instructor: involving imitation of a demonstration

23
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Psychomotor Learning: Mechanism

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gaining confidence in a skill that is more complex

24
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Psychomotor Learning: Complex Overt Response

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smoothly and accurately performing a motor skill

25
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Psychomotor Learning: Origination

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creating new movement patterns

26
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Before beginning a teaching session, the nurse must always

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assess what the patient knows about their illness first

27
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What factors influence a person’s motivation?

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  1. previous knowledge
  2. experience attitudes
  3. sociocultural factors
28
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The ability to learn depends on what factors?

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  1. physical and cognitive attributes
  2. developmental level
  3. physical wellness
  4. intellectual thought processes
29
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People process information in the following ways

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  1. seeing and hearing
  2. reflecting and acting
  3. reasoning logically and intuitively
  4. analyzing and visualizing
30
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Attention Set

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physical discomfort, anxiety and environmental distractions influence the ability to pay attention (a mild level of anxiety motivates learning, however, a high level of anxiety prevents learning)

31
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Motivation

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a force that causes a person to behave in a particular way

32
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Task motive

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dosing and administering insulin for a newly diagnosed diabetic

33
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Physical motive

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regaining physical normalcy for an amputee

34
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Social motive

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parenting classes/techniques

35
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Social Learning Theory

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people continuously attempt to control events that affect their lives. This allow them to attain desired outcomes and avoid undesired outcomes resulting in improved motivation.

36
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Self-efficacy

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A person’s perceived ability to successfully complete a task. When people believe they are able to execute a particular behavior, they are more likely to perform the behavior consistently and correctly

37
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When nurses implement interventions to enhance self-efficacy, their patients frequently experience

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positive outcomes
ex) a child learning how to use an inhaler for asthma (verbal persuasion, vicarious experience, enactive mastery experience, physiological & affective states).

38
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Psychosocial Adaptation to Illness: Stages of Grieving

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  1. denial/disbelief
  2. anger
  3. bargaining
  4. resolution
  5. acceptance
39
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active participation

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learning occurs when the patient is actively involved in the educational session

40
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Adult Learning

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  • are able to critically reflect on current situation
  • often able to identify their own learning needs
  • often become dependent in new learning situations
  • are ultimately responsible for changing their own behavior
  • setting mutual goals improves the outcomes of patient education
41
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The learn motor skills, a patient needs to possess

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certain levels of strength, coordination and sensory acuity

42
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The following physical characteristics are necessary to learn psychomotor skills:

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  1. size
  2. strength
  3. coordination
  4. sensory acuity
43
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Physical Characteristics necessary to learn psychomotor skills: Size

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height and weight match the equipment to use (crutches)

44
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Physical Characteristics necessary to learn psychomotor skills: Strength

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ability to follow a strenuous exercise program

45
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Physical Characteristics necessary to learn psychomotor skills: coordination

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dexterity for complicated motor skills (using utensils, changing a bandage

46
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Physical Characteristics necessary to learn psychomotor skills: sensory acuity

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senses needed to receive and respond to messages taught (visual, auditory tactile, gustatory and olfactory)

47
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Nursing Process vs Teaching Process

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Nursing: requires assessment of all sources of data to determine patient’s total health care needs.

Teaching: focuses on patients learning needs and willingness and capability to learn

48
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When determining a patient’s motivation to learn, assess the following factors

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  1. behavior
  2. health beliefs/sociocultural background
  3. perception of severity/benefits and barriers to treatment
  4. perceived ability to perform health behaviors
  5. desire to learn
  6. attitudes about health care providers
  7. learning style preference: visual, auditory, kinesthetic (hands-on)
49
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When assessing the ability to learn, assess the following factors

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physical strength
sensory deficits
patients reading level
patients developmental level
patients cognitive function
pain, fatigue, anxiety or other physical symptoms
50
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When assessing teaching environment, assess the following environmental factors

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distractions or persistent noise
comfort of the room
room facilities and available equipment

51
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Resources for Learning

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Willingness to have family involved.
Family’s perceptions and understanding of the illness.
Family’s willingness and ability to participate.
Resources: Financial and material.
Teaching tools-AV materials, brochures, printed materials.

52
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Health literacy

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The cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health

53
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Health Literacy includes

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Patients’ reading and mathematical skills
Comprehension
Ability to make health-related decisions
Successful functioning as a consumer of health care.

54
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Persons most likely to be at risk for low health literacy

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The elderly (age 65yrs and older).
Minority populations.
Immigrant populations.
Persons of low income (approximately ½ of Medicare/Medicaid recipients read below the 5th grade level).
People with chronic mental and/or physical health conditions.

55
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Functional Illiteracy

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The inability to read above the 5th grade level.

56
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Many Americans read and understand information that is

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3-5 years below their last year of formal education.

57
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Nursing Diagnosis

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Deficient Knowledge (Affective, Cognitive, Psychomotor)

Ineffective Health Maintenance

Readiness For Enhanced Health Management

Ineffective Family Therapeutic Regimen Management

Ineffective Self-health Management

Noncompliance With…Medication, Exercise Etc…

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Maintaining Attention and Participation

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persons learn better when more than one of the senses is stimulate

59
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Building on existing knowledge

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learning is more effective when information builds on a learner’s existing knowledge

60
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Incorporating Teaching with Nursing Care

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explain as you go - “just-in-time teaching” “real-time teaching”

61
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Teaching Approaches

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telling, participating, entrusting and reinforcing

62
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Teaching Approaches: Telling

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When teaching limited information-preparing a patient for an emergent procedure. Little opportunity for feedback with this method.

63
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Teaching Approaches: Participating

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Opportunity for discussion, feedback, mutual goal setting, and revision of the teaching plan.

64
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Teaching Approaches: Entrusting

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Provides the patient the opportunity to manage self-care. The patient accepts responsibilities and performs tasks correctly and consistently

65
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Teaching Approaches: Reinforcing

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A learner who receives reinforcement before or after a desired learning behavior is likely to repeat the behavior.
Feedback is a common form of reinforcement.

66
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Instructional Methods include

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One-on-one Discussion
Group Instruction
Preparatory Instruction (for tests/procedures)
Demonstration (especially for psychomotor skills (return demonstration))
Analogies
Role Play
Simulation

67
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Take Special Consideration of what factors?

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Health literacy
Disabilities
Cognitive capabilities: synthesis/analyze instructions
Stressors on the older adult

68
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When in the implementation phase, make sure to ..

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  • create a safe, shame-free environment
  • utilize teaching tools
  • acknowledge cultural diversity: language, beliefs, values, customs
69
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Documentation for Patient Education

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  • supports QI efforts

- meets TJC’s standards and promotes third party reimbursement

70
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Check tables and pages listed on powerpoint

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….