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• Health education


  Any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations of behavior conducive to health
• Education process


  • Systematic, sequential, planned course of action
• Teaching


  Deliberate intervention involving the planning and implementation of instructional activities to meet the intended learner outcomes
• Instruction


  One aspect of teaching which involves communicating information about specific skills, sometimes used interchangeably with teaching
• Learning


  Change of behaviour, action by which knowledge, skills and attitudes are consciously or unconsciously acquired
• Patient education


  Also called "Patient Teaching", process of assisting people to learn health-related behaviors
• Staff education


  Nurse/Midwife as health educator, focus on the "learner learning" rather than "teacher teaching"
• Nursing education


  • Has logical, scientifically-based frameworks for rational basis for nursing practice rather than an intuitive one
  • Methods for monitoring and judging the overall quality of interventions based on objective data and scientific criteria
• Process of nursing education

  1. Assessment

  2. Diagnosis

  3. Planning

  4. Implementation

  5. Evaluation
• Assessment


  Gathering of data about the learners or group of learners demographic profile, skills, abilities needed in identifying the most appropriate teaching strategy
• Planning


  Carefully organized written presentation of what the learner needs to learn, how the nurse educator is going to initiate the teaching process, including culturally-relevant skills for the learner, goals of the learning, type of teaching-learning setting
• Implementation and application of teaching plan

  Theoretical and practical aspects of the teaching-learning process must meet as the teacher applies the plan, procedures or techniques and strategies that the teacher will use to best implement the plan
• Evaluation


  Measurement of the teaching-learning performance, must be constructive and objective with the purpose of creating perfect change in the behavior, input, process and output
• ASSURE model as education process paradigm

  1. Analysis

  2. State the objectives

  3. Select the instructional media & materials

  4. Use the materials & instructional media

  5. Require learner participation

  6. Evaluate and revise
• Barriers to education


  Factors hindering or preventing the nurse's ability to deliver educational services
• Obstacles to learning


  Factors that negatively affect the ability of the learner to attend to and process information