Health Education and Health Promotion

Vocabulary flashcards covering core concepts of health education, promotion, literacy, and clinical judgment from the lecture.

Health Education

An independent function of nursing practice and a primary nursing responsibility focused on promoting wellness across all health care settings.

Health Promotion

Defined by WHO (2016) as 'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health'.

Personal Health Literacy

The degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others (NIH, 2021).

Systems Thinking

The ability to recognize, understand, and synthesize the interactions and interdependencies in a set of components designed for a specific purpose (Dolansky & Moore, 2013).

Goal of Patient and Family Education

To improve patient outcomes, often through encouraging adherence, which is especially important for those with chronic health problems.

Readiness to Learn

An essential patient factor that nurses must assess prior to teaching by recognizing cues and identifying potential barriers to communication.

Evaluation in Patient Teaching

The phase of the nursing process and clinical judgment where outcome success is verified, recognizing that it cannot be assumed patients have learned just because teaching has occurred.

Interactive Teaching Strategy

A teaching approach incorporating visual, tactile, and interactive elements—such as demonstrating a dressing change and allowing the patient to practice—which is most likely to promote learning and adherence, especially in older adults.