health education process

assessment

permits the nurse educator to facilitate the process of learning by arranging experiences within the environment

manipulating

allows learner to experience meaningful parts and wholes to reach their individual potentials

3 Determinants of Learning (Haggard, 1989):

1. Learning needs 2. Readiness to learn 3. Learning style

learning needs

are gaps in knowledge that exist between a desired level of performance and the actual level of performance

informal conversations

– Impromptu
– The nurse must rely on active listening to pick up cues

structured interviews

– Commonly used
– The nurse asks direct and often predetermined questions
– The nurse should establish a trusting environment and use open-ended questions

focus groups

– Group discussion (sharing)
– Facilitator leads the discussion
– Environment should be safe to share sensitive information
– Learners should be homogenous

questionnaires

– Written responses
– Checklists (common)
– Easy to administer, with privacy, easy to administer
– Encourages learner to make honest self-assessment

tests

– Written pretests before planned teaching
– Prevents the nurses from repeating already known material in the teaching plan

observations

– Helps the nurses draw conclusions about established patterns of behavior that cannot and should not be drawn from a single observation

documentation

Includes initial assessment, progress notes, NCPs, staff notes and discharge planning forms
– Nurses need to follow a consistent format for reviewing charts so that they will review each chart in the same manner to identify learning needs based on the same information