Learning Domains
What are the 3 learning domains?
What is Cognitive (thinking), Affective (emotion/feeling), and Psychomotor (physical/kinesthetic)?
In assessing a patient, the nurse finds out what the patient _______ _______, what they want and need to learn.
What is what the patient already knows?
This is the time when a young person develops a sense of self and personal identity. When they are successful they develop an ability to stay true themselves. When they fail at this task it can lead to a weak sense of self. Hint this stage is also known as Identity vs Role Confusion
What is Adolescence: ages 12-18.
A state of uneasiness, usually associated with a future uncertainty.
What is Anxiety?
A nurse is teaching a group of healthy adults (Millennial's and Gen X) about the benefits of flu immunizations. What purpose of patient education is the nurse fulfilling?
a. Restoration of health
b. Coping with impaired Functions
c. Promotion of health and illness prevention
d. Health analogies
What is C. Promotion of health and illness prevention?
Begins with acquiring knowledge, memory, and recall
What is Cognitive?
First the nurse should assess the patients willingness to learn. True or False
What is true?
The age group where children develop a sense of trust from their caregivers while they are providing reliable care and affection. When this process is successful children develop a strong sense of trust, when it fails they develop mistrust that their needs will be provide for. Hint: also known as Trust vs Mistrust.
What is Infancy: Birth to 18 months
Barriers on the part of the nurse to participate in patient education include____________.
What is lack of time?
Which action best indicates that learning has occurred? ( used for all generations)
a. A nurse presents information about diabetes
b. A patient demonstrates how to inject insulin
c. A family member listens to a lecture on diabetes
d. A PCP hands diabetes pamphlet to the patient.
What is B. A patient demonstrates how to inject insulin?
Role play, lecture, discussion and answers is an example of _______.
What is Cognitive?
What are the basic learning principles?
What are Motivation to learn, Ability to learn, and Learning environment?
This is time in life when adults look back on life and feel a sense of fulfillment. Success at this stage leads to feelings of wisdom, while failure results in regrets. Hint: also known as Ego Integrity vs Despair.
What is Maturity: ages 65 to death
How would you approach a patient with a language barrier?
What is use an interpreter, literature written in their native language, descriptive pictures and diagrams?
A toddler (iGen) is going to have surgery on her right ear. Which teaching method is most appropriate for this developmental stage?
a. Encourage independent learning
b. Use discussion throughout the teaching session
c. Apply a bandage to a doll's ear
d. Develop a problem-solving scenario
What is C. Apply a bandage to a doll's ear?
Known as the skill domain, uses physical and motor skills.
What is Psychomotor?
The ability to learn often depends on the patient's level of physical development and overall physical health. To learn psychomotor skills, a patient needs to possess a certain level of strength, coordination, and sensory acuity.
What is Physical capability?
This is the time in life when children begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage gives children a sense of purpose. Failure happens when children become too assertive and experience disapproval and guilt. Hint: it is also known as Initiative vs Guilt.
What is Preschool: ages 3 to 5 years.
What are some factors that affect the patient's response to learning?
What are the emotional effect of the disease, social impact on family and employer, intellectual impact, economic impact and spiritual impact?
A nurse is teaching an older adult (Traditionalist) patient about strokes. Which teaching technique is most appropriate for the nurse to use?
a. Use a pamphlet about strokes with large font in blue and greens
b. Speak in high tone of voice to describe strokes
c. Begin and end teaching session with the most important information about stokes
d. Provide specific information about strokes in frequent, large amounts
What is C. Begin and end teaching session with the most important information about strokes?
This domain includes values, beliefs, feelings and attitudes.
What is Affecctive?
Cognitive development influences the patient's ability to learn. You can be a competent teacher, but if you do not consider the patient's intellectual abilities, teaching is unsuccessful.
What is Developmental Capability.
This is the time in childhood when children need to develop a sense of personal control over skills and a sense of independence. When they are successful it leads to feelings of autonomy, when they fail at this task it can lead to feelings of shame and doubt. Hint: this is also known as Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt
What is Early Childhood: ages 2 to 3 years old.
Obstacles that prevent easy delivery of health care information include______.
What is literacy, culture, language, and physiological barriers?
How would you talk to a traditionalist (age 73-93)?
a. With the TV on
b. Fast and quick
c. Slowly with simple words
What is C. Slowly with simple words?