Concepts Cards Perry And Potter Ch 25

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"Client education is one of the most important roles for a nurse in any health care setting. Shorter hospital stays, increased demands on nurses' time, an increase in the number of chronically ill clients, and the need to give acutely ill clients meaningful information as soon as possible emphasize the importance of quality client education."

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"Many factors impair the ability to learn, including fatigue, body temperature, electrolyte levels, oxygenation status, and blood glucose level."

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"Determine information that is critical for the client to learn."

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"Cognitive development influences the client's ability to learn. A nurse can be a competent teacher, but if the nurse does not consider the client's intellectual abilities, teaching will be unsuccessful."

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"The ability to learn often depends on the client's level of physical development and overall physical health. To learn psychomotor skills, a client needs to possess a certain level of strength, coordination, and sensory acuity. "

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"Factors in the physical environment where teaching takes place make learning either a pleasant or a difficult experience. The ideal setting helps the client focus on the learning task. The number of persons the nurse will teach, the need for privacy, the room temperature, the room lighting, noise, the room ventilation, and the room furniture are important factors when choosing the setting."

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"An attentional set is the mental state that allows the learner to focus on and comprehend a learning activity. Before learning anything, clients need to give attention to, or concentrate on, the information to be learned."

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"Motivation is a force that acts on or within a person (e.g., an idea, emotion, or a physical need) that causes the person to behave in a particular way"

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"Compliance is a client's adherence to the prescribed course of therapy. "

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"Self-efficacy, a concept included in social learning theory, refers to a person's perceived ability to successfully complete a task. "

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

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"Cognitive learning includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking "

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"Psychomotor learning involves acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and muscular activity, such as the ability to walk or to use an eating utensil "

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"Client education is not complete until the nurse evaluates outcomes of the teaching-learning process (see care plan). The nurse determines whether clients have learned the material. Evaluation reinforces correct behavior, helps learners realize how to change incorrect behavior, and helps the teacher determine adequacy of teaching"

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"Documentation of client teaching also supports quality improvement efforts, meets TJC standards, and promotes third-party reimbursement. Many institutions have special forms that allow easy documentation. "

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"A client learns best on the basis of preexisting cognitive abilities and knowledge. Thus a teacher is more effective by presenting information that builds on a learner's existing knowledge. "

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"Active participation is key to learning. Persons learn better when more than one of the body's senses are stimulated."

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"During the assessment phase of the nursing process, the nurse determines the client's health care needs (see Unit III). At times assessment reveals a client's need for health care information."

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"After assessing information related to the client's ability and need to learn, interpret data and cluster defining characteristics to form diagnoses that reflect the client's specific learning needs (Box 25-7). This ensures that teaching will be goal directed and individualized. "

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"Goals of client education indicate that the client better understands information provided and is able to attain health or better manage illness. "

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"Include the client when determining priorities for client education. Base priorities on the client's immediate needs, nursing diagnoses, and the goals and outcomes established for the client. "

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"The American Nurses Association's Position Statement on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1997) supports a focus on promoting health and preventing illness. "

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"Not all clients fully recover from illness or injury. Many have to learn to cope with permanent health alterations. New knowledge and skills are often necessary for clients to continue activities of daily living "

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"Injured or ill clients need information and skills to help them regain or maintain their levels of health (see Box 25-1). Clients recovering from and adapting to changes resulting from illness or injury often seek information about their conditions. "

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"The Joint Commission (TJC, 2006) sets standards for client and family education. These standards require nurses and the health care team to assess the client's learning needs and provide education about many topics, including medications, nutrition, use of medical equipment, pain, and the client's plan of care."

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"It is impossible to separate teaching from learning. Teaching is an interactive process that promotes learning. It consists of a conscious, deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new behaviors, or perform new skills "

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"Learning is the purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills "

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"Nurses have an ethical responsibility to teach their clients"

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"A learning objective describes what the learner will be able to do after successful instruction."

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