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DVT Teaching Plan

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My educational program was quite successful. I taught the nursing staff at Baptist Health Medical Center on the importance of implementing DVT prophylaxis.Within 24 hours of admission onto the floor, nurses must identify some type of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis provided to the patient at Baptist Health Medical Center. It is a standard safety core measure that all nurses are expected to comply to. It is very important for nursing staff to adhere to the implementation of a DVT prophylaxis interventions in hopes of decreasing the risks of developing deadly blood clots. The learners were very interested and very engaged in the group discussion part of the presentation. The presentation was held in the nursing lounge. This provided …show more content…

The topic I discussed is well researched from an evidenced based practice aspect. This also means that a variety of material is available on this highly researched topic. It was challenging to minimized the information to meet the time requirements and present enough information to the learners so that the topic is well discussed and understood. Thus, the key to my planning process was organization, creating an objective and the development of a teaching plan as a guide. The teaching plan provided a sense of an action plan to achieve the goals and objectives set forth presenting actual purpose, content, methods and tools, sequence, timing, and evaluation of instruction (Bastable, 2014). This helped me to clearly identify and describe the elements of my educational program. The teaching plan also provide opportunity to reflect on what was the purpose of my educational program, what goals/information I desired my learners obtain from the program, and it forced me to examine the relationship among the steps of the teaching process to ensure a logical approach to teaching, which can serve as a map for organizing and keeping instruction on target (Bastable,

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