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• Patient education is a key component to disease management, convalescence, and overall wellness maintenance.
• Documentation of patient education provides a means of monitoring the type of patient education performed, the patient response, and additional educational needs.
• Documentation promotes communication about the patient’s progress in learning among all health care team members. 

  •Good documentation helps maintain continuity of care and avoids duplication of teaching. 

  •Documentation also serves as evidence of the fulfillment of teaching requirements for regulatory and accrediting organizations 

  •Provides a legal record of teaching

  •Documentation of patient teaching can be done via flow-charts, checklists, care plans, traditional progress notes, or computerized documentation.
• Use a standardized form. 

  •They are teaching tools that can be an efficient way to quickly find important information.

  •Narrative report
•  Document formal and informal teaching

  • Formal teaching is often thought of as curriculum that is taught at a designated time

  •Informal teaching that happens on an on-going basis.
• Describe the response of the learners. 

  • brief description of the topics covered, documentation should include a note about the interaction/response of the learner
• Evaluation is defined as a systematic process by which the worth or value of something, teaching and learning is judged.

   

   is the process that can justify that what we do as nurses and as nurse educators makes a value-added difference in the care we provide.

   

  is a process within a process is a critical component of the nursing process, the decision-making process, and the education process. It is the final component of each of these processes.
• Assessment - gather, summarize, interpret, and use data to decide a direction for action
• Evaluation - gather, summarize, interpret, and use data to determine the extent to which an action was successful
• Process formative Evaluation - It “forms” an educational activity

  •The process or formative evaluation is to make adjustments in an educational activity including personnel, materials, facilities, objectives, or even one’s own attitude.
• content evaluation - is to determine whether learners have acquired the knowledge or skills taught during the learning experience.
• impact evaluation - is to determine the relative effects of education on the institution or the community

  •To obtain information that will help decide whether continuing an educational activity is worth its cost
• Total Program evaluation  determines the extent to which all activities for an entire department or program over a specified time meet or exceed the goals originally established
• An important question to be answered in designing an evaluation is “How rigorous should the evaluation be”.
• What types of data will be collected?

     Complete (people, program, environment)
• Evaluation Instrument - An evaluation should be conducted with existing instruments, because instrument development requires considerable expertise, time, and expenditure of resources

  - must measure the performance being evaluated exactly as that performance has been operationally defined for the evaluation

  - should have documented evidence of its reliability and validity

  -Affordability and feasibility
• Evaluation of Learning 

     Evaluation is the last step of the teaching process. It is a continuous and crucial step in    the teaching process. Evaluation includes determining if the teaching session was    successful and the patient learned the intended information. Evaluation also provides the needed evidence that the patient received the and understood educational material.
• Evaluation of Teaching 

     A major purpose of evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of the teaching activities and decide which modifications, if any, are necessary. When learning objectives are not met, reassessment is the basis for planning modification of teaching-learning activities. Several activities can evaluate teaching effectiveness, including the following: 

  • Feedback from the learner, Feedback from colleagues          

  •Situational feedback, Self-evaluation
• Lack of clarity

     Resolve by clearly describing five evaluation components.

     Specify and operationally define terms.
• Lack of ability

     Resolve by making necessary resources available.

     Solicit support from experts.
• Fear of Punishment or Loss of Self-Esteem 

     Individuals being evaluated may fear that anything less than a perfect    performance will result in punishment or that their mistakes will be seen    as that they are somehow unworthy or incompetent as human beings    
• Evaluation is a powerful strategy for distinguishing programs and interventions that make a difference. It is a driving force for developing and adapting sound strategies, improving existing programs, and demonstrating the results of teaching in time and other resources. It also helps determine if what is being done is worth the cost
• Patient education is an essential nursing practice standard that meaningfully impacts a patient's health and quality of life. Education is used to empower the patient and is an important aspect of   with improved health outcomes
• Documentation is a clear, accurate, and accessible documentation is an essential element of safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice
• Factual, objective and client centered 

  • Descriptive and objective information based on first-hand knowledge, the nurse’s assessment and the client’s needs
• Accurate and relevant

  • Clear and easy to understand information containing sufficient details
• Complete Current

  • Information that is up-to-date and is recorded during or as soon as possible after the intervention or interaction occurred
• Organized, logical and sequential 

  • Information is in a chronological manner so that nursing decisions,
• Compliant with standards of practice and other legal requirements

  • Information reflects the delivery of safe, competent, ethical, and compassionate nursing care and is consistent with standards of practice