Health Ed Flashcards
(224 cards)
are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
Social Determinants of Health (SDH)
deliberate interventions that involve sharing information and experiences to meet intended learner outcome in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains according to an education plan.
Teaching
a change in behavior that can be observed or measured and that occurs at any time or place from stimuli.
Learning
a process of assisting people to learn health-related behaviors that they can incorporate into everyday life with the goal of achieving optimal health and independence in self-care.
Patient education
the process of influencing the behavior of nurses by producing changes in their knowledge, attitudes, skills to help them maintain and improve their competencies for the delivery of high-quality care to the consumer.
Staff education
It is a systematic, sequential, logical, scientifically based planned course of action, consisting of interdependent operations: teaching, and learning; and involves interdependent players: the teacher and the learner.
The Education Process
- Any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations of behaviour conducive to health.
Health Education
- Is a science and a profession of teaching health concepts to promote, maintain and enhance one’s health, prevent illness, disability and premature death perspective.
Health Education
nursing was first acknowledged as a unique discipline, the responsibility for teaching has been recognized as an important role of nurses as caregivers.
Mid 1800
the founder of modern nursing, was the ultimate educator. Not only did she develop the first school of nursing, but she also devoted a large portion of her career to teaching nurses, physicians, and health officials about the importance of proper conditions in hospitals and homes to improve the health of people.
Florence Nightingale
public health nurses in the United States clearly understood the significance of the role of the nurse as teacher in preventing disease and in maintaining the health of society.
1900s
patient teaching has been recognized as an independent nursing function. Nurses have always educated others—patients, families, colleagues, and nursing students.
2000s
PURPOSE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
To positively influence the health behaviour and health perspectives of individuals and communities for them to develop self-efficacy to adopt health lifestyles resulting to healthy communities.
is a permanent change in mental processing, emotional functioning, skill and behavior as a result of exposure to different experiences.
Learning
is a coherent framework of integrated constructs and principles that describe, explain, or predict how people learn, how learning occurs and what motivates people to learn and change
Learning theory
Learning Theories - Psychological (6)
- Behaviorist
- Cognitive
- Social
- Adult LT
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
proponent of behaviorist theory, emphasized the importance of observable behavior in the study of human beings.
John B. Watson
defined behavior as muscle-movement; associated with Stimulus-Response psychology.
Behaviorist
view learning as the result of stimulus conditions (S) in the environment and the learner’s responses (R) that follow.
Behaviorist
emphasizes the importance of stimulus conditions and the associations formed in the learning process.
Respondent conditioning/Association/classical or Pavlovian conditioning
a technique based on respondent conditioning that is used by psychologists to reduce fear and anxiety in their clients.
Systematic desensitization
the tendency of initial learning experiences to be easily applied to other similar stimuli.
Stimulus generalization
With more & varied experiences, individuals learn to differentiate among similar stimuli
Discrimination Learning
a useful respondent conditioning concept that needs careful consideration in relapse prevention programs.
Spontaneous recovery