Adult learning

Question 1

What is the retention rate for  what we:
read
hear
see
see and hear
say and do

Answer 1

10
20
30
50
80

Question 2

What are the main teaching strategies for adult learners

Answer 2

• Use different teaching stratigies keeping the retention in mind
• address the three domains of learning

Question 3

What are the three domains of learning?

Answer 3

• Cognitive
• Affective
• Psychomotor/ kinesthetic

Question 4

Adult learners need to have a ___ with the information presented

Answer 4

Personal connection

Question 5

What are some questions to ask that probe changes?

Answer 5

What do you think is happening right now for you to be getting these results?

What bothers you the most about (whatever the current problem is)?

How much (of the current problem) are you willing to put up with?

What are the outer limits of your definition of acceptable control right now?

What range of blood glucose levels do you define as your goal?

Question 6

What is the sequance of events in learning?

Answer 6

• Motivation
• Apprehension
• Acquisition

Question 7

What is the sequence of events in memory?

Answer 7

Retention
recall
generalization

Question 8

What is the sequence of events in responce?

Answer 8

Performance and feed back

Question 9

What are the two types of feedback?

Answer 9

Psychomotor and affective/cognative

Question 10

What are the 4 C’s of an excellent nurse-teacher?

Answer 10

Confident
Competent
Communication
Caring

Question 11

Use ___ to prioritize patient learning needs

Answer 11

Maslow

Question 12

What are the components of teaching documentation?

Answer 12

Initial assessments of understanding, reassessments

Nursing diagnoses and patient needs, priorities

Interventions planned

Interventions (education) provided

Patient’s response, outcomes of care education provided

Patient and family ability to manage needs after discharge

Question 13

What aspects fall under Confidence?

Answer 13

• Selects what to teach
• Alleviates the patient’s anxiety
• Provides appropriate learning environment
• Prepares appropriate teaching and material

Question 14

What aspects fall under Competence?

Answer 14

• Decides what is important to teach
• Ensures the patient’s safety
• Provides individualized written instructions
• Teaches home management of special problems

Question 15

What aspects fall under Communication?

Answer 15

• Gives clear directions
• Uses simple pictures or models
• Speaks the patient’s language

Question 16

What aspects fall under Caring?

Answer 16

• Has empathy
• Recognizes patient concerns
• Provides encouragement
• Ensures adequate time
• Sensitive to patient’s mood

Question 17

Define apprehension

Answer 17

exposure to the stimulus that is taken in and processed using discriminative abilities; mildly anxious patients attend to the stimulus with greater care than those who are not anxious

Question 18

Define Acquisition

Answer 18

includes changes that occur in the CNS and undergird and concretize the new material; if there is a CNS dysfunction, the new material may not be acquired

Question 19

Define retention

Answer 19

previously apprehended material is stored in the nervous system as memory; age may be an intervening factor - elderly have more problems with retention of recent events and information than events or information previously retained

Question 20

Define recall

Answer 20

retrieval; the learner is able to retrieve the new capabilities for an external observer or teacher

Question 21

Define generalization

Answer 21

sometimes referred to as transfer of learning; the pt. is able to retrieve something learned and apply it within a different situation or context i.e. sterile technique

Question 22

Define performance

Answer 22

observable behavior and a demonstration that a change has occurred

Question 23

Define feedback

Answer 23

last phase of learning and occurs through reinforcement

Question 24

What is Psychomotor learning feedback -

Answer 24

automatic as successful performance of the newly learned information serves as feedback

Question 25

What is Affective / cognitive learning feedback

Answer 25

frequently a function of the instructor who encourages the learner by saying “good,” that’s correct” etc.