Patient Education and Health Promotion

This set of flashcards covers key concepts in patient education and health promotion from the nursing perspective, including learning domains, teaching strategies, and the evaluation of learning.

What are the main purposes of patient education?

To maintain health, restore health, facilitate coping, prepare for positive outcomes, and promote adherence and compliance.

What are the three domains of learning?

Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor.

What is the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy?

Create (metacognition is also related to this level).

What factors foster patient learning?

Readiness to learn, a comfortable environment, appropriate health literacy level, intrinsic motivation, and supportive family involvement.

What factors inhibit learning?

Pain, anxiety, fatigue, low health literacy, language barriers, distractions, information overload, lack of motivation, and conflicting beliefs.

What should be assessed before teaching a patient?

Health literacy, learning style, readiness to learn, motivation, cognitive ability, cultural/spiritual factors, and language needs.

What are some strategies for patient education?

Verbal lectures, demonstrations, written materials, visual aids, return demonstrations, teach-back method, motivational coaching, and simulation.

What is the teach-back method?

A way to evaluate learning by asking patients to repeat information in their own words.

What criteria should be included in documentation of patient education?

Topic of teaching, teaching strategy used, materials given, communication barriers, patient's response, further learning needs, and the names of others taught.

What does the acronym SMART stand for in goal setting?

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.

What are some examples of evaluation methods in patient education?

Teach-back method, return demonstration, open-ended questioning, and observation of behavior change.

What is motivational interviewing?

A patient-centered technique using open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing to elicit a patient's own motivation for change.

What is the affective domain of learning concerned with?

Feelings-based aspects such as attitudes, values, emotions, and beliefs.

Which teaching strategy is best for cognitive learning?

Verbal lecture.

What role does a nurse play when guiding a patient's family to assistance for food access?

The nurse acts as a counselor.

What skill does a nurse demonstrate by smiling during interactions with patients?

Approachability.

What standard of professional practice does notifying a hospitalist about a patient’s treatment wishes exemplify?

ANA Standard 8: Advocacy.

What method is most effective to determine the effectiveness of teaching about pathophysiology?

Return demonstration.