Teaching
the interactive process that promotes learning
Who do nurses teach?
Patients, families, communities/groups
Goals of Patient Education
Maintaining and promoting health and preventing illness
Restoring health
Optimizing quality of life with impaired functioning
True or false: effective teaching depends on effective communication. To be a
good teacher you must listen empathetically, observe astutely, and speak clearly
True
Learning
Depends on the learning environment and on the individual's ability to learn,
learning style, and motivation to learn
Learning needs
Nurses need to ask specific questions to assess a patient's unique learning needs
Learning objective
What the learner will be able to do after successful instructions
3 learning domains
cognitive, affective, psychomotor
Cognitive learning:
includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking
remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, creating
, Cognitive learning
Affective learning:
concerns expressions of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or values
receiving, responding, valuing, organizing and Characterizing
affective learning
Psychomotor learning:
involves acquiring skills that require integration of mental and muscular activity
(ex. Walking)
perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response,
adaptation, origination
Psychomotor learning
Learning environment
well lit, good ventilation, appropriate furniture, comfortable temperature, quiet
setting, with a few distractions and interruptions
- if a patient desires, family member and/or significant others may share in
discussion.
Ability to learn
Emotional capability
Intellectual capability
Physical capability
Developmental stage
Learning style & preferences
indicates a tendency to use a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic modality when
there is a choice of ways to learn and process new information.
May prefer to work in groups, everyone processes information differently
Motivation to learn
Addresses the patient's desire or willingness to learn
What factors affect learning?
the interactive process that promotes learning
Who do nurses teach?
Patients, families, communities/groups
Goals of Patient Education
Maintaining and promoting health and preventing illness
Restoring health
Optimizing quality of life with impaired functioning
True or false: effective teaching depends on effective communication. To be a
good teacher you must listen empathetically, observe astutely, and speak clearly
True
Learning
Depends on the learning environment and on the individual's ability to learn,
learning style, and motivation to learn
Learning needs
Nurses need to ask specific questions to assess a patient's unique learning needs
Learning objective
What the learner will be able to do after successful instructions
3 learning domains
cognitive, affective, psychomotor
Cognitive learning:
includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking
remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, creating
, Cognitive learning
Affective learning:
concerns expressions of feelings and acceptance of attitudes, opinions, or values
receiving, responding, valuing, organizing and Characterizing
affective learning
Psychomotor learning:
involves acquiring skills that require integration of mental and muscular activity
(ex. Walking)
perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response,
adaptation, origination
Psychomotor learning
Learning environment
well lit, good ventilation, appropriate furniture, comfortable temperature, quiet
setting, with a few distractions and interruptions
- if a patient desires, family member and/or significant others may share in
discussion.
Ability to learn
Emotional capability
Intellectual capability
Physical capability
Developmental stage
Learning style & preferences
indicates a tendency to use a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic modality when
there is a choice of ways to learn and process new information.
May prefer to work in groups, everyone processes information differently
Motivation to learn
Addresses the patient's desire or willingness to learn
What factors affect learning?
