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MODULE #1: OVERVIEW OF EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE

EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE TODAY • 1995: Grueninger- known for his transition
toward wellness
- Patient education and nursing staff/student
o From DOPE to POPE, and ultimately,
education
HOPE
- Educating patients and their significant
• 1995: The Pew Health Professions
others, colleagues, and nursing students
Commission- published a broad set of
- Focus of modern healthcare: outcomes that
competencies believed to mark the success
demonstrate patients’ and their significant
of nurses and other healthcare professions in
others’ knowledge and skills for
the 21st century
independent care
• Role of today’s educator: training the trainer
- Changes are constantly occurring =
by:
continuing education efforts
o Continuing nursing staff education
HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PATIENT EDUCATION o In-service programs
IN HEALTH CARE o Staff development

• Patient educator: roles as nurses- not only in order to maintain and improve their
focused on care, but also educating the clinical skills and teaching abilities.
sick
• Clinical Instructor: another very important
• Nurse educator
role of the nurse as educators serving
• Mid 1800s: responsibility of teaching was
students in the practice setting.
deemed as a vital role of nurses
• Florence Nightingale: Founder of Modern SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL TRENDS
Nursing and an ultimate nurse educator AFFECTING HEALTH CARE
• Early 1900s: PHN’s role as nurse educator in
• Importance of reaching out to communities,
preventing diseases and maintaining the
schools, and workplaces to provide
optimal health of society was emphasized
education about disease prevention and
• 1918: NLNE (now NLN): observed the
health promotion
importance of health teaching as a function
• Demographic trends, such as aging of the
within the scope of the nursing practice
population, are requiring an emphasis on
o Nurses as agents for promotion of
self-reliance and maintenance of healthy
health, and prevention of illnesses
status over an extended lifespan.
• 1950: NLNE identified the course content in
• Importance of health education to
nursing school curricula
accomplish the economic goals of reducing
• ICN: endorsed nurses’ role as educator as
the high costs of health services
an essential component of nursing care
• Among the major causes of morbidity and
delivery
mortality are diseases that are lifestyle-
• NPAs: include teaching within the scope of
related and preventable through
nursing practice
educational intervention.
• 1973: Patient’s Bill of Rights by AHA – ensures
• Nurses are in a key position to carry out
patients’ complete, and up-to-date
health education. Among the other
information regarding their diagnosis,
healthcare professionals, they have the
treatment, and prognosis
most continuous, constant contact with
(A: 12 Patient’s Bill of Rights in the PH, explain
patients, and are usually the most
each)
accessible sources of information.
• 1980: The role of nurses as educators shifted
• Since 1999, nurses are ranked #1 in honesty
from being disease-oriented to prevention-
and ethics among 45 occupations. (Gallup
oriented. Focused on promoting and
polls)
maintaining optimal health.

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MODULE #1: OVERVIEW OF EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE
planned course of action consisting of two
major interdependent operations: teaching
PURPOSES, GOALS, AND BENEFITS OF CLIENT AND
and learning.
STAFF EDUCATION
• NURSING PROCESS
Purpose: to increase the competence and - ASSURE Model – a useful paradigm to assist
confidence of clients/patients for self-management nurses to organize and carry out the
education process
Goal: to increase the responsibility and Analyze learner
independence of clients/patients for self-care State objectives
Select instructional methods and tools
*The single most important action of nurses as
Use teaching materials
educators is to prepare patients for self-care.
Require learner performance
Effective teaching can do the following: Evaluate/revise the teaching and learning
process
• Increase patient satisfaction - ROLE OF NURSES AS EDUCATORS
• Improve QOL o Luker and Caress (1989)- differentiated
• Ensure continuity of care patient teaching and patient
• Decrease patient anxiety education
• Effectively reduce the complications of Patient teaching – implies a didactic
illness and the incidence of disease
information giving approach
• Promote adherence to treatment plans Patient education – implies something
• Maximize independence in the more comprehensive, for which
performance of activities of daily living specialist skills are required.
• Energize and empower consumers to o Role of educator – not primarily to
become actively involved in the planning of teach, but to promote learning and to
their care. provide an environment conducive for
*Numerous studies have documented the fact that learning, to create a teachable
informed clients are more likely to comply with moment rather than waiting for it to
medical treatment plans, more likely to find happen.
innovative ways to cope with illness, and less likely Quality and Safe Education in Nursing (QSEN): a
to experience complications. three-phase project funded to educate nursing
COMPARISON OF NURSING PROCESS TO EDUCATION students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to
PROCESS improve safety and quality of healthcare delivery.

6 QSEN Competencies
1. Patient-centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Informatic
6. Safety

BARRIERS AND OBSTACLES TO EDUCATION

- Lack of time
- Low priority status given to teaching
- Lack of confidence and competence
- Questionable effectiveness of patient
education
• EDUCATION PROCESS- systematic, - Negative influence of environment
sequential, logical, scientifically-based, - Lack of motivation and skills
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