Health Educ Lesson 1

• NLNE - National League of Nursing Education.
• ANA - America Nurses Association.
• ICN - International Council of Nurses.
• JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization.
• AHA - American Hospital Association.
• A - Analyze the learner.
• S- State objectives.
• S - Select instructional methods and materials.
• U - Use teaching materials.
• R - Require learner performance.
• E - Evaluate/Revise the teaching/learning process.
• Nurses function in the role of educator:

  • giver of information
  • accessor of needs
  • evaluator of learning
  • revisor of appropriate methodology
• Health Education - has long been considered a standard care-giving role.
• Patient Teaching - recognized as an independent nursing function.
• Nursing Practice - expanded to include education in health and illness.
• NLNE - first observed health teaching as an important function within the scope of nursing practice; responsible for identifying course content for curriculum on principles of teaching and learning.
• ICN - endorses health education as an essential component for nursing care delivery.
• SNPA - universally includes teaching within the scope of nursing practice.
• JCAHO - requires evidence of patient education to improve outcomes.
• AHA - Patient's Bill of Rights ensures that clients receive complete and current information.
• PHPC - puts forth a set of health profession competencies for the 21st century; over 1/2 of recommendations pertain to importance of patient and staff education.
• Education Process - a systematic, sequential, planned course of action on the part of both the teacher and learner to achieve the outcomes of teaching and learning.
• Teaching/Instruction - a deliberate intervention that involves sharing information and experiences to meet the intended learner outcomes.
• Learning - a change in behavior (Knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that can be observed and measured and can occur at any time or in any place as a result of exposure to environmental stimuli.
• Patient Education - process of helping clients learn health-related behaviors to achieve the goal of optimal health and independence on self-care.
• Staff Education - the process of helping nurses acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills to improve the delivery of quality care to the consumer.
• Assure Model - useful paradigm to assist nurses to organize and carry out the education process.
• Barriers to Teaching - factors impeding the nurse's ability to optimally deliver educational services.
• Obstacles to learning - factors that negatively impact on the learner's ability to attend to and process information.