Health Education

• Patient Educator

  Someone who promotes health teaching and educating the sick
• Nursing Educator

  Nurse educates other nurses for their growth and development
• Health Educator


  Educating people about their health
• Teaching is recognized as an important role of nurses as caregivers

  Mid 1800's
• Florence Nightingale


  Ultimate educator
• PHN's role as nurse teacher is to prevent disease and maintain the health of society


  Early 1900's
• Patient teaching


  Independent nursing function
• Nursing education


  Educating others-patient, family, and colleague
• Nursing practice


  Broader concepts of health and illness
• National League of Nursing/National League for Nursing (importance of health teaching)

  1918
• Nurses as Agents


  Promotion of health and prevention of illness in all settings
• NLNE identified course content to prepare nurse

  1950
• International Council of Nurses (IN)


  Essential component of nursing as health care delivery
• Nursing Practice Acts (NPA)


  Teaching with scope, responsibilities
• Patient's Bill of Rights


  1970
• Nursing as Educator, a paradigm shift from DOPE to POPE


  1980
• DOPE


  Disease-oriented patient education
• POPE


  Prevention-oriented patient education
• HOPE


  Health-oriented patient education
• Role of Nurse


  From healer to expert
• The Pew Health Professions Commission


  1995
• Role of Today's Educator

  • Training the Trainer- continuing nursing education
  • Professional Nurses- preparation to effective teaching services
  • Clinical Instructor- serving students in the practice settings
  • Role of Clinical Educator- requires teacher to actively engage
• No. 1 in HONESTY and ETHICS- since 1999 among 45 occupations
• Purpose


  Competence and confidence, self-management
• Goal


  Responsibility and independence, self-care
• Education Process


  Systematic, sequential, and planned course of action consisting of 2 major interdependent operations: teaching and learning
• Teaching and Instructions


  Interventions that involve sharing information
• Learning


  Defined as a change in behavior (attitude, skills, knowledge)
• ASSURE model


  Useful paradigm to assist nurses to organize and carry out the education process
• QSEN Competencies


  • Patient-centered care
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Quality improvement
  • Informatics
  • Safety
• PHASE I- dedicated to teaching strategies
• PHASE III- to develop the faculty expertise needed
• Barriers to education


  Impeding the nurse's ability to deliver educational services
• Obstacle to learning


  Negatively affect the learner's ability to process information
• Deontological


  Golden rule (doing one's duty)
• Teleological


  Greatest good for the greatest number
• Immanuel Kant


  Deontological notion
• John Stuart Mill


  Teleological approach
• Ethics


  Guiding principle of behavior
• Ethical


  Standards of behavior