Teaching Clients

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Nurses need teaching skills because

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Teaching clients is part of independent nursing practice.
ANA standard r/t promoting health demands skill in teaching clients.
Clients/families need information for decision making.
Shorter hospital stays increase need for teaching about home care needs.
Teaching facilitate compliance and shortens hospital stays.
Teaching empowers clients and families.

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Teaching

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process that involves a teacher and a learner, is interactive, involves planning and implementing instructional activities, includes providing activities that allows clients to learn, goal of teaching activities: to meet learner outcomes.

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Who do nurses teach?

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single client
families, caregivers
groups of clients
peers
unlicensed assistive personnel
nursing students
new employees

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What do nurses teach?

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Disease information
information about medications
procedures/psychomotor skills
disease prevention and health promotion
clinical processes

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5 rights of learning

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1. Right time
2. Right context
3. Right goal
4. Right content
5. Right method

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Learning is

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a change in behavior, knowledge, skills or attitude. Changes occur as a result of exposure to stimuli in the environment. Active process involving more than giving of information.

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3 domains of learning

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1. Cognitive (thinking) - Storage and recall of information. Ex. lecture, reading, discussion, case study.
2. Psychomotor (doing activity) - Requires thinking and doing. Ex. demonstration, printed materials, pictures
3. Affective (emotional) - changing feelings, beliefs, attitudes, and values. Ex. Role model and videotapes.

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Factors that affect client learning:

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1. Motivation
2. Readiness to learn: physical condition and emotions
3. Timing
4. Active involvement
5. Type of feedback given
6. Repetition
7. Learning environment
8. Scheduling of the session
9. Amount/complexity of the client
10. Teacher/learner communication
11. ADD, ADHD
12. Developmental stage
13. Culture
14. Literacy

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Barriers for teacher:

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1. Lack of time, preparation to teach, space, or privacy.
2. Teaching is not a priority.
3. No reimbursement for teaching.
4. Frustration with amount of documentation needed.
5. Lack of coordination by various healthcare providers.

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Barriers for learner:

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1. Stress of illness and physical condition.
2. Anxiety
3. low literacy
4. negative environmental influence
5. Lack of time to learn.
6. Overwhelming amount of behavioral change needed.
7. lack of support or willingness to take responsibility.
8. Healthcare system complexity.

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Assess client's:

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1. learning needs/knowledge level.
2. health beliefs and practices
3. physical and emotional readiness
4. ability to learn
5. ability to see, feel, hear and grasp.
6. learning style
7. time constraints
8. available resources

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Teaching plan should include:

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1.Teaching strategies: method used to present the content being taught.
2. Content: all info needed to reach your intended goal.
3. Scheduling and sequencing: How to organize and sequence information.
4. Instructional material - Materials/tools used to present.