PATIENT EDUCATION
Maintenance and promotion of health and illness prevention, restoration of health, and coping with impaired functions.
What are the purposes of patient education?
Page 365. Review the purposes of patient education.
A complex concept that is unique to each individual; it depends on a person’s culture, development, life experiences, beliefs, and ideas about life
What is spirituality?
Page 763.
The three-stage reaction to stress, describes how the body responds physiologically to stressors.
What is the Generalized Adaption Syndrome (GAS)?
Page 808. Figure 37.1
Situational stressors in the health care workplace that affect nurses and other health care professionals might include one or all of these factors.
What are a high-acuity patient load, job environment, constant distractions, responsibility, conflicting priorities, and intensity of care (e.g., trauma, emergency, or critical care areas)?
Page 810 Situational Factors
Implement teaching methods. Actively involve patient in learning activities. Include family caregiver as appropriate. All of this teaching process relates to what part of the nursing process?
What is implementation? (Page 375)
*REVIEW TABLE 25.3 on page 375
To help individuals, families, or communities achieve optimal levels of health.
What is one goal of patient education?
Page 365.
Someone who does not believe in the presence of God.
What is an atheist?
Page 763.
Allostasis
The body will attempt to return to a state of balance, after encountering a physical demand.
Page 808.
According to this developmental theory, individuals experience predictable stages of development as particular tasks are accomplished and mastered for each stage?
Who is Erickson?
Page 811: Maturational factors.
Listening to patients’ concerns; when appropriate, involving family members in discussions about patients’ health, showing self-confidence when providing health instruction, and supporting patients as they make decisions about their health.
What are examples of how a nurse might establish presence?
Page 776.
Demonstration, practice and return demonstration.
What are examples of appropriate teaching methods in the psychomotor learning domain?
**Review Box 25.2 on page 368
Gives patients temporary relief from pain, insomnia, anxiety, and depression and increases coping and the ability to relax.
What is meditation?
Page 778.
Occurs when continuous stress causes progressive breakdown of compensatory mechanisms. This occurs when the body is no longer able to resist the effects of the stressor and has depleted the energy necessary to maintain adaptation.
What is the exhaustion stage of the General Adaption Syndrome?
Page 808.
Because of the high incidence of depression in older adults, nurses need to assess for this.
What are suicidal thoughts and intent?
Box 37.2 on page 811 (Review this box)
A major natural disaster, man-made disaster, or crime of violence creates this type of crisis.
What is an adventitious crises?
Page 810.
The patient's stage in the grief process and the patient's physical health.
What are two factors that influence a patient's readiness to learn?
Page 371.
Differs from spirituality in that it is an organized, institution-related practice that is commonly associated with particular beliefs.
What is religion?
Page 764.
During this stage of the Generalized Adaption Syndrome, rising hormone levels result in increased blood volume, blood glucose levels, epinephrine and norepinephrine, heart rate, blood flow to muscles, oxygen intake, and mental alertness.
What is the Alarm Stage and/or Fight or Flight?
Page 808.
Occurs when a medical error results in significant harm to a patient and/or the patient’s family.
What is second victim syndrome?
Page 812.
Discussion (one-on-one or group), lecture, and role-play / discovery are all part of this learning domain.
What is the cognitive learning domain?
Page 368. **Review Box 25.2**
Comfort of the room, including ventilation, temperature, lighting, furniture, and size.
What are environmental factors that may positively or negatively influence patient learning.
Page 374.
An evidence-based coping resource for physical and psychological symptoms that is often helpful in promoting a patient’s spiritual health.
What is prayer?
Page 778.
According to this nursing theory, a person has the ability to modify external stimuli to allow adaptation to occur. A nurse assists an individual with modifying and regulating peripheral stimuli to promote a supportive healing environment.
What is Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model?
Page 810. Review the paragraph titled "Nursing theory and the role of stress" so that you are familiar with all of the nursing theories (there's only 3 discussed in the paragraph) that address stress.
A term used to describe a state of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Secondary traumatic stress is the stress that health care providers experience when witnessing and caring for others who are suffering.
What is compassion fatigue?
Page 812.
A closed-loop communication technique that assesses patient retention of the information given during a teaching session.
What is the Teach - Back method?
Page 384. Read about / Review the Teach Back Method.