Nursing Chapter 25: Patient Education

Purposes of Patient Education

• The primary goal of patient education is to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health.
• Patient education aims to:
  • Maintain and promote health and illness prevention
  • Restore health
  • Help individuals cope with impaired functions

Teaching and Learning

• Teaching involves imparting knowledge through a series of directed activities.
• Learning is the process of understanding and applying newly acquired concepts.
• Nurses are legally responsible for providing education to all patients.

Domains of Learning

• Cognitive learning
• Affective learning
• Psychomotor learning

Basic Learning Principles

• Motivation to learn:
  • Use of theory to enhance motivation and learning
  • Cultural factors
  • Active participation
• Readiness to learn
• Ability to learn:
  • Developmental capability
  • Learning in children and adults
  • Health literacy and learning disabilities
  • Physical capability
• Learning environment

Clinical Judgment in Patient Education

• Nurses use their knowledge of a patient's health condition to predict the topic and level of instruction required.
• In clinic, home care, and rehabilitation settings, nurses have more time to identify patients' learning needs and provide comprehensive ongoing education.
• In acute care settings, nurses should:
  • Learn the resources a patient has as early as possible
  • Engage those individuals early in instruction
  • Confirm with patients and family caregivers what is most important for them to learn and be prepared to return home.

Nursing Process

• Assessment:
  • View from the patient's perspective
  • Learning needs
  • Motivation to learn
  • Readiness and ability to learn
  • Environmental factors
  • Resources for learning
  • Health literacy
• Analysis and nursing diagnosis
• Planning and outcomes identification:
  • Outcomes
  • Setting priorities
  • Timing
  • Organizing teaching material
  • Teamwork and collaboration
• Implementation:
  • Maintaining learning attention and participation
  • Building on existing knowledge and ability
  • Teaching approaches:
    • Telling
    • Participating
    • Entrusting
    • Reinforcing
  • Incorporating teaching with nursing care
• Instructional methods:
  • Verbal one-on-one discussion
  • Group instruction
  • Preparatory instruction
  • Demonstrations
  • Analogies
  • Simulation
• Evaluation:
  • Patient outcomes
  • Teach-back
• Considerations:
  • Cultural diversity
  • Using teaching tools
  • Special needs of children and older adults

Purposes of Patient Education

• The primary goal of patient education is to help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health.
• Patient education aims to:
  • Maintain and promote health and illness prevention
  • Restore health
  • Help individuals cope with impaired functions

Teaching and Learning

• Teaching involves imparting knowledge through a series of directed activities.
• Learning is the process of understanding and applying newly acquired concepts.
• Nurses are legally responsible for providing education to all patients.

Domains of Learning

• Cognitive learning
• Affective learning
• Psychomotor learning

Basic Learning Principles

• Motivation to learn:
  • Use of theory to enhance motivation and learning
  • Cultural factors
  • Active participation
• Readiness to learn
• Ability to learn:
  • Developmental capability
  • Learning in children and adults
  • Health literacy and learning disabilities
  • Physical capability
• Learning environment

Clinical Judgment in Patient Education

• Nurses use their knowledge of a patient's health condition to predict the topic and level of instruction required.
• In clinic, home care, and rehabilitation settings, nurses have more time to identify patients' learning needs and provide comprehensive ongoing education.
• In acute care settings, nurses should:
  • Learn the resources a patient has as early as possible
  • Engage those individuals early in instruction
  • Confirm with patients and family caregivers what is most important for them to learn and be prepared to return home.

Nursing Process

• Assessment:
  • View from the patient's perspective
  • Learning needs
  • Motivation to learn
  • Readiness and ability to learn
  • Environmental factors
  • Resources for learning
  • Health literacy
• Analysis and nursing diagnosis
• Planning and outcomes identification:
  • Outcomes
  • Setting priorities
  • Timing
  • Organizing teaching material
  • Teamwork and collaboration
• Implementation:
  • Maintaining learning attention and participation
  • Building on existing knowledge and ability
  • Teaching approaches:
    • Telling
    • Participating
    • Entrusting
    • Reinforcing
  • Incorporating teaching with nursing care
• Instructional methods:
  • Verbal one-on-one discussion
  • Group instruction
  • Preparatory instruction
  • Demonstrations
  • Analogies
  • Simulation
• Evaluation:
  • Patient outcomes
  • Teach-back
• Considerations:
  • Cultural diversity
  • Using teaching tools
  • Special needs of children and older adults

Learn about the purposes of patient education in nursing, including health maintenance, promotion, and restoration. This chapter covers the primary goal of patient education and its importance in healthcare.