NR_351 Foundational Concepts for
the Practicing RN
2025/2026
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, Chamberlain College of Nursing
Patient education is the process of influencing the
patient's behavior to affect change your knowledge,
attitudes, and skills needed to maintain and improve
health by providing knowledge to make informed
Aims of teaching and decisions
counseling
Counseling
Providing the support and resources. Must be
Counseling ongoing and interactive
Maintaining and promoting health
Preventing illness
Aims of Nursing Restoring health
Facilitating coping
High-level wellness and related self-care practices
Disease prevention or early detection
Quick recovery from trauma or illness with minimal or
no complications
Enhanced ability to adjust to developmental life
Teaching outcomes changes and acute, chronic, and terminal illness
Patient and Family acceptance of lifestyle
necessitated by illness or disability
Preparation for receiving care
Preparation before discharge from health care facility
Focus of Patient Documentation of patient education activity
Education
T - Tune into the patient.
E - Edit patient information.
A - Act on every teaching moment.
C - Clarify often.
Teaching Acronym H - Honor the patient as partner in the education
process.
Age and developmental level
Family support networks
Financial resources
Factors affecting patient Cultural influences and Language deficits
learning Health literacy level
, Child/adolescent
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College learners
Nursing
Age and development
level include
Child/adolescence Pedagogy
Adult learners Andragogy
COPE model
Family support networks
and financial resources
Ability to obtain, read, understand, and act on health
Health literacy information
Internet searches, reading health prevention
pamphlets, measuring medication dosages, and
Health literacy skills understanding and complying with verbal or written
healthcare instructions
As the person matures, One's self concept is likely to
move from dependence to independence
The previous experience of the adult is a rich
resource for learning
An adults readiness to learn is often related to
developmental task or social role
Knowles four assumptions
about adult learning Most adult orientation to learning is that material
should be useful immediately, rather than at
sometime in the future
C - creativity
O - optimism
COPE model P - planning
E - expert information
1. Develop an understanding of the patient's culture
2. Work with multicultural team
3. Be aware of personal assumptions, biases, and
prejudices
Providing Culturally 4. Understand the core cultural values of the patient
Competent Patient or group
Education 5. Develop written material in native language of the
patient