Nrs 352 Chapter 1 Terms

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Education process

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A systematic, sequential, planned course of action that parallels the nursing process and consists of two interdependent operations, teaching and learning, which form a continuous cycle to include assessment of the learner, establishment of a teaching plan, implementation of teaching methods and tools, and evaluation of the learner, teacher, and education program.

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Teaching

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As one component of the educational process, it is a deliberate, intentional act of communicating information to the learner in response to identified learning needs with the objective of producing learning to achieve desired behavioral outcomes.

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Instruction

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Often used interchangeably with teaching. Involves the communicating of information about a specific skill in the cognitive, affective, or psychomotor domain with the objective of producing learning.

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Learning

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A conscious or unconscious permanent change in behavior as a result of a lifelong, dynamic process by which individuals acquire new knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes that can be measured and can occur at any time or in any place due to exposure to environmental stimuli.

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Patient Education

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A process of assisting consumers of health care to learn how to incorporate health-related behaviors (knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes) into everyday life with the purpose of achieving the goal of optimal health.

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Staff Education

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A process of assisting nursing staff personnel to acquire knowledge, skills, or attitudes in nursing practice for the purpose of maintaining or improving their ability to deliver quality care to the consumer.

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Barriers to teaching

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Those factors that impede the nurse's ability to deliver educational services.

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Obstacles to learning

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Those factors that negatively affect the ability of the learner to attend to and process information.