Chapter 25 patient education Flashcards
Comprehensive patient education includes 3 important purposes
Health promotion and illness prevention, health restoration, and coping
Teaching consists of a/
Conscious deliberate set of actions that help individuals gain new knowledge, change attitudes, adopt new behaviors, or perform new skills
Define learning
The purposeful acquisition of new knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills through an experience or external stimulus
-it is a process of both understanding and applying newly acquired concepts
Learning occurs in 3 domains:
cognitive (understanding), affective (attitudes), and psychomotor (motor skills)
Affective Learning deals with?
Expression of feelings and development of values, attitudes, and beliefs
Affective learning includes
Receiving Responding Valuing Organizing Characterizing
Psychomotor learning
Involves acquiring motor skills that require coordination and the integration of mental and physical movements such as the ability to walk or use an eating utensil
Psychomotor learning includes?
Perception Set: mental, physical, emotional Guided response Mechanism Complex overt response Adaptation Origination
Self-efficacy beliefs come from four sources:
Enactive mastery experiences (child uses inhaler)
vicarious experiences (nurse demonstrates skill)
verbal persuasion (nurse expresses personal belief in child’s ability to use inhaler)
physiological and affective states (patient experiences positive feedback, further enhancing their confidence to use it)
Health literacy
the cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health
People at risk for health literacy
- Elderly (65 & older)
- minority populations
- immigrant populations
- people of low income
- chronic mental and/or physical health conditions
