Purpose of Patient Education
This nursing responsibility helps patients understand their health, treatments, medications, and self-care needs.
Patient education
This term means helping people increase control over and improve their health.
Health promotion
This type of learning involves gaining knowledge, facts, and understanding.
Cognitive learning
Pain, fatigue, anxiety, fear, and illness can decrease this for learning.
Readiness to learn
Teaching very young patients should include simple words, short sessions, pictures, play, and involvement of this person.
The parent or caregiver
Patient education helps patients make informed decisions and take an active role in this.
Their health care
Immunizations, screenings, healthy eating, exercise, and smoking cessation are examples of this.
Disease prevention
This type of learning involves feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs.
Affective learning
Vision loss, hearing loss, language differences, and low literacy are examples of these.
Barriers to learning
Teaching older adults may require large print, good lighting, slower pacing, repetition, and time for this.
Questions or return demonstration
Teaching a patient how to change a dressing, take medication, or follow a diet supports this ability.
Self-care
Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving health, preventing disease, reducing disparities, and improving this.
This type of learning involves hands-on skills, such as using an inhaler or giving an injection.
Psychomotor learning
A patient who denies the diagnosis or says, “I do not need to know this,” may lack this.
Motivation or readiness to learn
Printed materials, videos, interpreters, community agencies, websites, and support groups are examples of these.
Patient education resources
Patient education can help prevent complications, improve outcomes, and reduce this after discharge.
Hospital readmission
Teaching about hand hygiene, vaccines, nutrition, activity, and safety supports national goals for this.
Health promotion and disease prevention
Asking a patient to explain instructions in their own words helps the nurse evaluate this.
Understanding
Medical words, rushed teaching, distractions, and lack of privacy can interfere with this nursing process.
Patient teaching
The topic taught, the patient’s response, and evidence of understanding are three important parts of this.
Documentation of patient education
The nurse should individualize patient education based on the patient’s needs, readiness, culture, age, and this.
Learning ability or health literacy
Patient education should encourage patients to choose healthy behaviors before illness or complications occur; this is called this level of prevention.
Primary prevention
Having a patient demonstrate wound care or insulin administration helps evaluate this type of learning.
Psychomotor learning
The nurse should assess culture, language, education level, support system, and this before teaching.
The patient's learning needs
Follow-up appointments, home health care, written instructions, phone calls, and community referrals help continue education after this event.
Hospital discharge