HEALTH EDUC (midterms)

• Educators


  Can greatly enhance learning
• Facilitators


  Helping learners to be aware of what needs to be known
• Assessment


  Permits nurse educator to facilitate
• Educators


  Vital in giving support, encouragement and direction
• Learning needs


  What learners need and want to learn
• Readiness to learn


  When the learner is receptive to learning
• Learning style


  How the learner best learns
• Learning needs


  Gaps of knowledge that exist between desired level of performance and actual
• Identify the learner


  Who is the audience?
• Choose the right setting


  Establishing trusting environment helps learners feel sense of security
• Types of learning needs

  • Mandatory
  • Desirable
  • Possible
• Mandatory


  Needs that must be learned for survival
• Desirable


  Needs that are not life dependent but are related to well being
• Possible


  Needs for information that is nice to know but not essential or required
• Ways to identify learning needs

  • Informal conversation
  • Structured interviews
  • Focus group
  • Questionnaires
  • Checklists
  • Tests
  • Observation
  • Documentation
• Informal conversation


  Learning needs are discovered during impromptu conversations
• Structured interviews


  Most commonly used to solicit the learners point of view
• Focus group


  Involved getting together a small number (4-12) potential learners
• Questionnaires


  Nurse educator can obtain a written responses to questions
• Checklists


  One of the most common form of questionnaires
• Tests


  Giving pretest before plan teaching
• Observation


  Observing health behaviors in several time can help the educator draw a conclusion
• Documentation


  Initial assessment, progress notes, nursing care plans
• Readiness to learn


  Time when the learner demonstrates interest in learning
• Components of physical readiness

  • Measures of ability
  • Complexity of task
  • Environmental effects
  • Health status
  • Gender
• Measures of ability


  Ability to perform task requires fine and/or gross motor movements
• Complexity of task


  When learners can master behavioral changes in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor
• Environmental effects


  When environment conducive to learning helps hold of learner's attention
• Health status


  The amounts of energy available and the individual present comfort level
• Gender


  Suggest that women are more receptive to medical care than do men
• Emotional readiness


  Learners must emotionally ready to learn
• Anxiety


  Influence persons ability to perform cognitive, affective and psychomotor levels
• Fear


  Major contributor to anxiety
• Reachable moment


  Mutual exchange of concerns and sharing possible intervention
• Motivation


  A willingness to take action
• Risk taking behavior


  Activities people perform daily
• Frame of mind


  Involves concern about the here and now versus the future
• Developmental Stage


  Each task associated with human development known as teachable moment
• Experiential readiness


  Refers learners past experiences with learning
• Level of aspiration


  The extent which someone is driven to achieve short or long term goal