RT ROLE
Key to the prevention?
Patient Education!
Culture refers to?
Patterns of beliefs and behaviors shared by members of a population.
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to?
Obtain, process, and understand basic health infor mation and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
What domain has these associated purposes?
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Cognitive domain
What are the 4 broad goals?
(1) to promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages;
(2) to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups;
(3) to attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; and
(4) to create social and physical environments that promote good heatlh for all.
Emphasis in health care should be on?
Health promotion and disease prevention.
T/F
Patients use their culture in the way they view personal health and the need for health care interventions.
TRUE
Low health literacy affects patient safety and?
The ability for the patient to participate in care.
What domain has these associated purposes?
Receive
Respond
Value
Organize
Characterize
Affective domain
Why do we need these specific health goals?
These goals encompass the essential elements of health promotion and disease prevention.
What are some roles that the RT can take in the community?
Education
Some cultures do not recognize illness when symptoms are not present, such as with?
Chronic illnesses
Respiratory therapists must understand where the patient is coming from in regards to?
The patient’s beliefs, values, and cultural norms to influence the education provided.
What domain has these associated purposes?
Perception
Ready to act and respond
Guided response
Efficiency
Perform alone
Creates a new or original model
Psychomotor domain
What is our #1 goal towards our patient's while we are caring for them?
To improve their quality of life.
RT's educate patients by providing information about?
Disease processes, medications, and treatment procedures.
There is risk associated with patients misunderstanding therapy or medications; why is this?
It is about patients’ culture and their ability to comprehend information well enough to follow the instructions to take a medication, know when to reorder a medication, and how to complete a therapy necessary for lung disease.
To give effective communication to a patient what must you do first?
Understand the patient needs.
MATCH THE DOMAIN
Affective Skills
Cognitive Attitudes
Psychomotor Knowledge
Cognitive domain—knowledge needed to succeed
Psychomotor domain—skills needed to be successful
Affective domain—attitudes needed to succeed
What association recognizes that the education and training of the RT is the best method to improve a patient’s quality of life?
AARC!
What are 3 community education forums that RT's can get involved in.
Asthma education, Tobacco cessation, and disease prevention.
What are 3 ways to overcome Cultural Diversity with your patient?
Patience in meeting their communication needs.
Understanding what they need.
Respect for where they are coming from.
T/F
Reading and comprehension may not always go hand in hand.
T/F
Patients often will voluntarily admit that they do not understand.
TRUE
FALSE
What is Maslow suggested hierarchy of needs?
Maslow suggested physiologic needs as the most basic of human needs, followed by safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization.
Why do we have health promotion and disease prevention?
For the prevention of premature death, disease, and disability as well as the improvement of the quality of life.