Teaching Plan Development

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Teaching Plan Development

• Presented By
• Christine Hicks

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Teaching-Learning Process

• Goal of health education is to help individuals
  achieve optimum ststes of health through their
  own actions
• Teaching-learning session is a planned
  interaction which promotes a behavioral change

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• Reasons for Client Education include
• Promotion of Wellness
• Prevention of Illness
• Restoration of Health
• Facilitation of Coping Abilities

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• Consumers of healthcare demand Client Education
• Need
• Right
• Active role in Healthcare
• Compliance

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• Nurses
• Have a responsibility to provide Health Education
• Develop own philosophy of learning
• Develop own teaching style

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Domains of Learning

• Cognitive--Acquisition of facts States name
  purpose of medications
• Affective--Change of attitude, emotion, beliefs
  Accepts chronic illness
• Psychomotor--Gains motor skills self-injection
  of insulin

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Learning Styles

• Visual--Seeing/reading information
• Auditory--Listens to information
• Kinesthetic--Performing/Doing

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Principles of Learning

• Relevance
• Motivation
• Readiness
• Maturation
• Reinforcement
• Participation
• Organization
• Repetition

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Barriers to Learning(External)

• Environmental
• Interruptions
• Lack of Privacy
• Physical Environment of Room
• Sociocultural
• Language
• Educational Background

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Barriers to Learning(Internal)

• Psychological
• Anxiety
• Mood
• Physiological
• Pain
• Fatigue
• Sensory Alterations

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Barriers to TeachingLack of

• Time
• Teaching Skills
• Knowledge
• Continuity
• Interest
• Teaching Materials
• Method for Documentation

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Learning Throughout the Life Cycle

• Child
• Developmental Age/Not Chronological Age
• Play
• Active Participant
• Adolescent
• Peer Support/Group meetings
• Role Model
• Reading Materials

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• Older Adults
• Physiological Changes
• Vision
• Hearing
• Use of Large Print Materials

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Professional Responsibility

• Through teaching the nurse empowers the client in
  their self-care abilities (p.563)
• Patients Bill of Rights
• Important in all practice settings

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Teaching the Nursing Process

• Assessment
• Identification of Learning Needs
• Planning
• Implementation of Teaching Strategies
• Evaluation

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Assessment

• Assess
• Learning Needs
• Ability to Learn
• Readiness to Learn
• Data from the Client, Family, Chart

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• Learning Needs
• New Information Required
• New Skill to Learn
• Adapt to New Environment
• Client Asks Questions
• Observe Client Behaviors

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• What does the client want to learn
• What concerns you?
• What questions do you have?

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• Ability to Learn
• Assess Maturation Level
• Previous Experience
• Attention Span

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• Readiness to Learn
• Not always possible to wait until Client is ready
  to learn
• Choose times that are more conducive to learning
• Client asks questions

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Nursing Diagnosis

• Knowledge Deficit

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Planning

• What to Teach
• How to Teach
• Who will teach who will be Taught
• When teaching will occur
• Where teaching will be done
• With what expected outcome

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Implementation

• Knowledge Base
• Teach what you know
• Refer Clients when necessary
• Interpersonal Skills
• Create Relaxed Environment
• Therapeutic Communication

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• E Establish a relaxed environment
• Sit at the Bedside
• Dont appear Rushed
• Observe Client closely for Cues
• Make eye contact
• Be open to Questions

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• A Allow time for Reflection
• Give time to think
• Go back over complex material
• Leave written material
• SSimplify
• Dont use nursing jargon
• Relate to Clients previous experience

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• E Emphasize with written material drawings

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Evaluation

• Determine what the Client has learned
• Ask for Feedback
• Client demonstrates a skill
• Verbal questioning
• Observation

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• Documentation
• Content taught
• Teaching methods used
• Who was taught
• Response to teaching activities
• How well the objectives were achieved

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• Evaluation of Teaching
• Feedback from Learner

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Client Educationcan lead to

• Improved quality of care
• Decreased chances of rehospitalization
• Shorter length of hospital stays
• Greater compliance with prescribed treatment
  regimen

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Example Discharge Instructions

• Home care procedures
• Use of equipment
• Diet
• Activity
• Medications
• Specific instructions
• When to call physician
• Follow-up care appointment/Referrals