AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Health Education - ANSWER-Any combo of planned learning experiences based on
sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities with opportunity to
acquire the information and skills needed to make quality health decisions.
Goals of Health Education - ANSWER-Help individuals, families and communities
achieve through their own actions and initiative, an optimal state of health.
two objectives:
1. change health behaviors: encourage positive, informed changes in lifestyle; empower
the individual
2. improve health status: prevent acute and chronic disease; decrease disability'
enhance wellness.
Diversity and Health Teaching - ANSWER-Eliminating disparities in health require that
nurses
provide culturally appropriate health education and health promotion.
Prevention strategies must be culturally and
linguistically appropriate in order to be effective.
The nurse endeavors to provide culturally sensitive
education.
Make an effort to analyze educational interventions that are acceptable and satisfying to
the individual
Health Literacy - ANSWER-The degree to which individuals have the
capacity to obtain, process, and understand health
information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions
Standards for Patient Education - ANSWER-•All state Nurse Practice Acts recognize
that patient teaching
falls within the scope of nursing practice.
•The Joint Commission sets standards for patient and family education.
•Successful accomplishment of standards requires
collaboration among health care professionals.
, Patient Education Includes - ANSWER--Maintenance and promotion of health and
illness prevention
-Restoration of health
-Coping with impaired functioning
Teaching and Learning - ANSWER-•Teaching
-An interactive process that promotes learning
-The concept of imparting knowledge through a series of directed activities.
•Learning
-The purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills
through an experience or external stimulus.
Role of the Nurse in Teaching/Learning - ANSWER-- teach info that pts and families
need to make informed decisions regarding their care.
- determine what pts need to know
- identify when pts are ready to learn
Diagnosis - ANSWER-•Nursing diagnoses for patient education
-Deficient knowledge (affective, cognitive, psychomotor)
-Ineffective health maintenance
-Impaired home maintenance
-Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management
-Ineffective self-health management
-Noncompliance (with medications)
Planning - ANSWER-•Determine goals and expected outcomes that guide the
choice of teaching strategies and approaches with a patient:
-Set priorities.
-Select timing to teach.
-Organize the teaching materials.
-Use teamwork and collaboration
Implementation - ANSWER--Maintain learning attention and participation
-Building on existing knowledge
-Selecting teaching approach
-Incorporate teaching with nursing care
•Select appropriate instructional methods:
-Group instruction
-One-on-one discussion
-Preparatory instruction
-Demonstration