HEALTH EDUCATOR

• Components of documentation system

  • Admission assessment
  • Problem list
  • Care plan
  • Flow sheet
  • Progress notes
  • Discharge summary
• METHODS- discharge summary

  • Medication
  • Exercise
  • Treatment or therapy
  • Health teaching
  • Outpatient follow up check-up
  • Diet
  • Spiritual wellbeing
• Therapeutic communication


  Promotes understanding of own health, establishes constructive guidelines
• Guidelines for therapeutic communication

  • Provide peaceful and calm environment
  • Begin interactions by introducing oneself and nurse roles
  • Be focused and directed towards meeting the client
  • Communicate more through non-verbal behavior
  • Listen actively and with mindfulness
• Techniques for therapeutic communication

  • Active listening
  • Empathy, understanding, putting yourself in their shoes
  • Open-ended questions
  • Restating and paraphrasing, repeating the client's words in your own
  • Silence
  • Summarizing
  • Nonverbal communication
• Examples of therapeutic vs non-therapeutic communication

  • Giving common advice - non-therapeutic
  • Rejecting - non-therapeutic
  • Using open-ended questions - therapeutic
  • Needing silence - non-therapeutic
  • Offering self - therapeutic
  • Changing topic and subjective - non-therapeutic
  • Focusing - therapeutic
• Purposes of client teaching

  • Increase health awareness
  • Increase client satisfaction
  • Improve quality of life
  • Ensure continuity of care
  • Decrease patient anxiety
• How to maintain client wellbeing

  • Increased self-reliant behavior
  • Reduce or effectively the incidence of illness and complication
  • Promote adherence to health care treatment plans
  • Maximize independence in the performance of activities of daily living
  • Energize and empower individuals to make activities, involving in planning their care
• Factors affecting client learning

  • Stage of development
  • Culture values
  • Language used
  • Physical environment
  • Previous experience
  • Teacher's knowledge and skill
• Principles of client teaching and learning


  • Assess teaching readiness of the client
  • Assess what the client knows and begin from what they know
  • Consider language barriers, literacy, ethnic or culture background, age and emotional status of the client
  • Have interactive discussion with the client
  • Demonstrate tasks to be done for activities practice
  • Give praise and positive feedback
  • Demonstrate behavior by role modeling
  • Recognize and resolve conflict and frustration
  • Teach and present simple tasks first, complex tasks later
  • Use various teaching methods to illustrate concepts and maintain interest of client
  • Present information in small segments over a period of time for better retention and appreciation
• Nurse educator


  Primary source of learning knowledge in nursing<|>Primary catalyst for the learning process - change agent<|>Role model for learners<|>Active facilitators - interactive method to improve interaction<|>Source of health care information and care to client<|>Diligent to keep abreast of developments in their field - 15 units CPD to renew license
• Functions of a health educator


  • Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups
  • Formulate operational plans and policies
  • Conduct and coordinate health needs assessments
  • Design and conduct evaluation and diagnosis studies
  • Plan and implement health education and promotion
  • Prepare and distribute health education materials
  • Provide guidance to agencies and organizations - Barangay officer
  • Disseminate health program information to the public
  • Promote and maintain cooperative working relationships
  • Provide and maintain health education libraries
  • Formulate, prepare and coordinate grant applications
  • Document activities and records information
• Patient teaching


  The process of influencing patient behavior and producing changes in knowledge, attitude and skills, necessary in maintaining or improving health
• Nursing process


  • Assessment - learning needs, readiness and learning styles
  • Planning - Develop teaching plans
  • Implementation - Performing the act of teaching
  • Evaluation - Determine behavior changes
• Nature of nursing process

  • Dynamic - means over time changes and cyclic - can start from the top
  • Planned and goal oriented - outcome
  • Intellectual process - critical thinking, backed by theories, use of NANDA
• Characteristics of nursing process

  • Systematic - follow sequence
  • Dynamic - changes
  • Interpersonal client oriented
  • Goal-oriented - goal attainment
  • Universally applicable - for everyone
• Types of education

  • Biological - human body, how to take care of our body
  • Health resources - offer various services and opportunities
  • Society and environmental - policy for health
• Dimensions of the health education process

  • Substantive or curricular - choosing specific topics to learn and teach
  • Procedural or methodological - visual aids, oral
  • Environmental or social - setting, external factors to consider
  • Human relation - connectedness, factors to consider to align with course
• Aspects of health education

  • Behavioral science - psychological predisposition, skills, experience, environmental reinforcement, socio-cultural context
  • Public health - overall condition of community, epidemiology
  • Education - development of mental abilities, practical training
• Importance of health education


  • Enhance knowledge and awareness
  • Promote health, safety and security of people
  • Develop and improve community resources
  • Increase productivity and strength of character
  • Disease prevention
  • Minimize cost
  • Promote self-reliant behaviors - teach independence
• Factors affecting changes


  • Perceive the need for change
  • Initiate group interaction - identify problems and possible changes
  • Implement the change in steps - gradually
  • Evaluate the overall results of the change process - identify if the change is effective
• Factors affecting changes

  • Culture - aligned with beliefs, religion
  • Demographics - age, sex
  • Socio-economic conditions - status in life
  • State of wellness and development - holistic approach
• The goal of Health Education is to promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles through education and awareness-raising activities.
• Utilizing visual aids, such as infographics and videos, can help simplify complex health information and make it more accessible to a wider audience.