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• The presentation provides an overview of education in healthcare, focusing on the role of nursing health education.
• The textbook, "Nurse as Educator Principles of Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice" by Susan B. Bastable, is a key resource.

Defining Health Education

• Health Education combines learning experiences to help individuals, families, and communities improve their health.
• This results from increasing knowledge or influencing attitudes.
• Health education professionals educate people about health.
• It includes environmental, physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and sexual/reproductive health.
• Health education uses principles to guide individuals and groups to behave in ways to promote, maintain, or restore health.
• WHO defines health education as consciously constructed learning opportunities involving communication to improve health literacy and life skills.

Nursing Health Education

• Nursing health education is the process of educating nursing professionals.
• This is done regarding patient, family, and community care
• The goal is to maintain or achieve good health conditions.

Historical Foundations of Nurse Educator Role

• Health education has long been a standard care-giving role for nurses.
• Patient teaching is recognized as an independent nurse function.
• Nurse practice includes education on health and illness.
• Nurses educate clients and families to manage illness independently as Client/Family Educators.
• Nursing includes teaching and educating clients about their health and well-being.
• Nurse Educator is a career role.
• The nurse's role as educator is integral to the nursing profession.
• Since the mid-1800s, teaching has been an important healthcare initiative assumed by nurses.
• Florence Nightingale is considered the mother of modern nursing and was the ultimate educator.
• Florence Nightingale developed the first school of nursing. -She devoted much of her career to educating those involved in healthcare delivery.
• Nightingale stressed proper conditions in hospitals and homes.
• She urged adequate nutrition, fresh air, exercise, and hygiene for patients' well-being.
• Patient teaching has long been recognized as an independent nursing function.

Organizations and Agencies Promoting Standards

• The National League of Nursing Education (NLNE/NLN) observed health teaching as part of nursing.
• NLNE/NLN identifies course content for teaching and learning principles.
• The American Nurses Association (ANA) sets standards for practice, including patient teaching.
• The International Council of Nurses (ICN) supports health education as essential to nursing care.
• State Nurse Practice Acts universally include teaching in nursing's scope.
• The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requires evidence of patient education.
• The American Hospital Association (AHA) ensures clients receive current information through the Patient's Bill of Rights.
• The Pew Health Professions Commission promotes health profession competencies for the 21st century.
• Over half of the commission's recommendations relate to patient and staff education.

Trends Affecting Healthcare

• Social, economic, and political forces influence nurses' teaching role.
• Federal initiatives like Healthy People 2010 affect health care.
• Growth of managed care require a nursing role in patient teaching
• Increased attention to health and well-being of everyone in society has changed nursing
• Cost containment measures impact healthcare expenses and nurse practice.
• Continuing education is seen as a way to combat malpractice due to the role of nurses.
• Expanding scope/depth of nurses' roles requires education.
• Consumers demand more knowledge and skills for self-care
• Demographic trends affect healthcare needs.
• Lifestyle-related preventable diseases are more recognized, leading to nursing education.
• Health literacy is increasingly important.
• There is increasing advocacy for self-help groups.
• In January 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services launched Healthy People 2010.
• Healthy People 2010 contains 467 objectives to improve the health of all Americans.

Purpose, Goals, Benefits of Patient, Staff, Student Education

• To increase patients' competence and confidence in self-care.
• Benefits of education to patients include increased satisfaction, improved quality of life, continuity of care, decreased illness, increased compliance, decreased anxiety, and maximized independence.
• Benefits of education to staff include enhanced job satisfaction, improved relationships, increased autonomy, and better knowledge/skills.
• Benefits of preceptor education for nursing students include prepared preceptors, teaching continuity with classroom curriculum, and improved evaluation of student skills.
• The goal of nursing health education is to increase self-care responsibility and improve the quality of care.

Education Process Defined

• Education Process: Systematic actions by teachers and learners to achieve teaching and learning outcomes.
• Teaching: Intervention to share information and experiences for intended learner outcomes.
• Instruction: Communicating information about a skill.
• Learning: A change in behavior (knowledge, skills, attitudes) from exposure to stimuli.
• Patient Education: Helping clients learn health-related behaviors to achieve optimal health in self-care.
• Staff Education: Process of helping nurses get skills to improve quality care for patients.
• The common element uniting different types of nurses is providing holistic, patient-centered care.
• Nurses collect and analyze client data systematically as the first step in delivering care.
• Assessment includes physiological plus psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and lifestyle factors.
• Nurses use clinical judgment about the client's response about health conditions.
• Nurses set measurable and achievable goals after assessment.
• Assessment data, diagnoses, and goals are recorded to give nurses and other professionals access for care.
• The patient’s status and nursing care effectiveness are continuously evaluated.
• The care plan needs to be adjusted.

Nursing vs. Education Process

• In assessment, nurses appraise needs whereas educators ascertain learning needs.
• In planning, nurses develop a care plan with goals whereas educators develop a teaching plan with outcomes.
• In implementation, nurses uses standard procedures whereas educators performs using instructional methods.
• In evaluation, nurses assess physical and psychosocial outcomes whereas educators determine changed behaviors.
• Nursing focuses on planning and implementing care based on the assessment of the patient’s physical and psychosocial needs.
• Education focuses on identifying instructional content and methods based on an assessment/prioritization of the client’s learning needs.
• The nursing process outcomes are achieved when the patient's physical and psychosocial needs are met.
• The education process outcomes are achieved when knowledge, attitudes, and skills change.

ASSURE Model

• It helps nurses organize and execute education.
• The steps are analyze the learner, state objectives, select instructional methods and materials, use teaching materials, require learner performance, and evaluate/revise the teaching/learning process.

Role of Nurse as Educator

• Nurses educate patients, families, students, staff, and agency personnel.
• The educator role is integral to all nurses due to training and legal mandates.
• Nurses function as information givers, needs assessors, learning evaluators, and client advocates.
• Partnership philosophy in nursing stresses teaching and learning should be participatory.

Barriers to Teaching

• Factors impeding the nurse's ability to deliver education.
• These factors can include a lack of time, inadequate preparation, personal characteristics, and low priority status given to teaching.
• Other barriers include environments not conducive to learning, lack of reimbursement, doubts about effectiveness, and inadequate documentation.

Obstacles to Learning

• Factors negatively affecting the learner's ability to attend to and process information.
• Common obstacles: time limits, stress from illness, sensory deficits, health illiteracy.
• Other obstacles include lack of privacy, variations in readiness, extent of changes needed.
• Additional obstacles are lack of support, denial of need, and healthcare system factors