Creative Patient Education

The nurse must assess each patient on and individual basis by performing a learning needs assessment and determining preferred learning methods. In this patient’s case, the nurse performs a learning needs assessment, which includes general screening questions to determine what knowledge the patient has regarding his disease process, how he perceives his present condition, and the patient’s preferred learning methods. Knowing the preferred learning method, specific to the patient, will determine what teaching methods should be used.

Nurses work in a variety of health care settings including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, schools, home care and community health. Due to this direct contact with a diverse patient population, nurses have a responsibility to play a critical role in developing, evaluating and propagating health information. As direct care providers, nurses assess patients for barriers to learning these include, age, language, cognitive issues, vision and hearing impairments or any other aspects that may impede the learning process. Nurses also assess patients for different learning styles. Some patients learn best by reading information and others prefer demonstration or writing information Younger patients may prefer watching audiovisual materials or interactive games to facilitate learning. As advocated for our patients, it is important for nurses to choose and evaluate the most appropriate delivery method of health care information. It is important for nurses and health care professionals to be able to evaluate websites and health related resources to ensure they provide reliable, quality health information that is based on medical research and not opinions from trusted sources (U.S. National Library of Medicine,

Many individuals learn using a combination of styles. After considering all aspects of my patient I created my teaching plan to benefit visual, auditory, and tactile learners. My plan included an informative brochure that I created at a reading level suitable for my patient and visual aids consisting of tables such as “My Plate,” nutrition labels, and certain foods to avoid. The visual aids were necessary for my patient’s literacy level

The general goal of this teaching is for the client to be able to breastfeed in the proper manner and to understand the benefits of breastfeeding in order to prolong breastfeeding for as long as

Although teaching may be done first, last, or in the middle of patient care, teaching is a very important part of the nursing process. Teaching is important for the patient and family to understand the importance of their care, and it allows them to make an informed decision on the care they receive. To appropriately teach a patient we must look at the patient’s background, make a nursing diagnosis, develop behavioral objectives, outline the teaching plan, and evaluate the teaching’s effectiveness.

Patient education has been a vital role for nurses. Over the years, the importance of educating patients has shown to improve outcomes and decrease re-hospitalization. With the advancement of technology in patient education, it has shown increase patient engagement and helps patients play and active role in their healthcare. These technologies can be used in the hospital, medical offices, at home and even on mobile devices. This gives several different opportunities to education patients and different ways for the patient to choose how they prefer to receive the information. Information technology helps with patient engagement which improves patient satisfaction, experience and positive outcomes (Patmon, Gee, Rylee & Readdy, 2016). These

The learning challenges I'm having is figuring out what code comes first, when it's more than one code for the ICD-10. It's stressful trying to figure out which medical term or diagnose to look up first. I'm having a little challenge with finding the correct alphabetical category to look under for a medical diagnose. For example the medical diagnose might say cancer but be under Neoplasm category. Another challenge is not knowing what the medical disorders or diseases mean like asympotomatic. How I will overcome this by following directions, asking questions, and continue taking notes. I can google the medical disorders or diseases to find out what they mean and always ask Mrs. Pavey. When Mrs. Pavey tells us the diagnose or medical term can

Many sites have patient teaching materials. Select one example of a creative way to present information to patients and describe how this example contributes to critical thinking. 2-3 pages.

Patient education is necessary for successful management of chronic diseases such as diabetes. A patient will diabetes has to monitor their insulin levels throughout the day. They also have to be educated on certain foods to avoid and other foods that help manage the disease process. In the hospital setting, there is usually more emphasis placed on fixing the problem at hand, rather than helping them better manage the disease that they are having to live with. I believe that there needs to be more emphasis on keeping the diabetic out of the hospital and if possible getting them off of their insulin if they are a type 2 diabetic.

The traditional way of teaching in medical education “see one, do one, teach one “is proven to be limited. Role modelling and imitation are emphasised, learning is clinically oriented, and the feedback is minimal. The biggest disadvantage is that the learners are faced with situations in the future which they find themselves to be underprepared for .(Jacques et al. 2011)

As a clinician, we can come up with the best interventions. But, it is only going to be successful if the patient understands the intervention and implement correctly. In order to patients understand the information provided, a clinical need to speak the language and understand the culture of their patients (Benjamin, 2010). Pender, Murdaugh, and Parsons (2010) recommends few strategies for delivering health care information. The one I am going to us the most is breaking down complex information into small, understanding chunks. Regardless how much the information is simplified, remembering all the information is almost impossible. Therefore, I also going to provide a written handout according to the patient's literacy level or repeat the

The Article entitled “Applying Best Practices to Designing Patient Education for Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Pursuing Kidney Transplant” Davis, Fish, Peipert, Skelton & Waterman (2015). Despite the known benefits of kidney transplants, less than thirty percent of the six hundred and fifteen thousand patients’ are living with end-stage renal disease in the United States have received a transplant. More than One hundred thousand people are presently on the transplant waiting list. The significant barrier to kidney transplants is the shortage of donated kidneys.

I explained to the patient my role for the day and as part of my role for the day, it will be teaching him. In order to assess the patient’s learning needs, I interview the patient about what brought him to the hospital, how he engage in life, what he likes to do in his spare time, his families and his experience in the hospital including the challenges he faces during and after this admission, and his concern after his discharge. From the interview I try to learn what he already knows, what he needs to learn, what and what would be the appropriate way to teach him.

Here are some of the ideas/methods I used to apply to patients, and I have many other techniques because each person/patient is different.

Whether in the classroom or clinical setting, I believe that the process of learning should not be static, but rather fluid in the sense that questions should be asked back and forth between educator and student. A dialogue should be created so that both student and teacher are actively participating in the learning process. Through this way of learning, one has to actively think and apply the information they have on a particular subject, instead of just memorizing facts. I have found that this is the best way for me to truly process and retain information.