This document discusses effective teaching in healthcare education. It outlines 6 major categories of effective teaching: 1) professional competence through knowledge and skills, 2) strong interpersonal relationships with students, 3) engaging teaching practices, 4) desirable personal characteristics, 5) effective evaluation practices, and 6) availability to students. Other principles discussed include encouraging active learning, giving prompt feedback, communicating high expectations, and respecting diverse talents and ways of learning. The role of the educator is to facilitate learning by understanding each learner's needs, readiness, and preferred learning style.
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This document discusses effective teaching in healthcare education. It outlines 6 major categories of effective teaching: 1) professional competence through knowledge and skills, 2) strong interpersonal relationships with students, 3) engaging teaching practices, 4) desirable personal characteristics, 5) effective evaluation practices, and 6) availability to students. Other principles discussed include encouraging active learning, giving prompt feedback, communicating high expectations, and respecting diverse talents and ways of learning. The role of the educator is to facilitate learning by understanding each learner's needs, readiness, and preferred learning style.
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HEALTH EDUCATION clinical practice, education
PERSPECTIVE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING - Gives accurate information, clinical expertise, demonstrate skills - Healthcare is delivered during time of great - Student’s trust is important, displays transformation & consumerism confidence in professional abilities - Clients and communities demands greater 2. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH control and input into healthcare decision STUDENTS and how care should be provided - Personal interest w/ learners - Positive impact is improving access to care, - Being sensitive to their feelings n problems but need continuous integrated - Conveys respect for students &equitable health syst. - Fair - Nurse as educators have valuable strats for - Accessible for conferences clients and community. They are most - Permits learner to express diff pov trusted mem in healthcare - Conveys sense of warmth EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE TODAY - Students are free to ask 3. TEACHING PRACTICES - PATIENT EDUCATION - Mechanics, methods, and skills in classroom - NURSING STAFF/STUDENT EDU n clinical teaching - EDUCATE CLIENTS, FAM MEM, - Thru knowledge of subject COLLEAGUES, NURSING STUDENTS - Presents material in an interesting, clear, TRENDS IN HEALTHCARE organized manner 4. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS 1. make client be prepared to assume - Desirable characteristics of teacher responsibility for self-care management - Authenticity, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, self- 2. nurses are accountable for the delivery of control, patience, flexibility, sense of safe, high quality care humor, good speaking voice, self 3. focus modern healthcare to help clients confidence, caring attitude and other learn essential knowledge and 5. EVALUATION PRACTICES skills for independent care - Communicate expectations 4. student n staff nurses acquire up to date - Provide timely feedback on student’s knowledge n skills needed to competently progress and confidentially render care to client in a - Correct students tactfully variety setting - Fair in evaluation effective teaching vs ineffective teaching - Gives test 6. AVAILABILITY TO STUDENTS learners – become teachers themselves – good - Present n on time for class role model - First come-last to leave 1996 – Jacobson delineated 6 MAJOR CATEGORIES In clinical – be available to students when needed, OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN NURSING more so during stressful clinical situations 1. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE - Appropriate amount of supervision - Thru knowledge of subject - Freely answer questions of students - Polishes skills throughout career - Good resource person during clinical learning experience - CI should not be in several places at once - Exert tight control over the class setting, students are passive, focus more on Back-up plan – assistance by staff nurse, another teaching than in learning instructor, head nurse 2. STUDENT CENTERED Other characteristics of good teaching - Encourages students to actively participate, flexible approach, utilizes several methods - Start and end on time - Class time being well used 7 PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN - Constantly asses student if they understand UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION the lesson and can follow teacher’s train of 1. Encourage student-faculty contact thought 2. Encourage cooperation among students - Uses example 3. Encourage active learning - Use repetition and summarization 4. Give prompt feedback - Periodically ask students if lesson is clear 5. Emphasize time on task - Committed and creative 6. Communicate high expectations Teacher’s style 7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning
- Blending of form and content 10 REQUIREMENTS OF GOOD TEACHING
- An outgrowth personality and character of 1. GOOD TECAHING MUST HAVE PASSION the teacher - Convey that passion to everyone - Makes teacher sensible, interesting, and - Motivate students to learn in a manner that worth listening to is relevant, meaningful, and memorable - Style is blending of certain ways of talking, 2. GOOD TEACHING HAVE SUBSTANCE moving, relating, and thinking. It’s - It bridges the gap between theory and important for teacher to be effective practice - Develop humorous style, jokes, cartoons, - Emerge oneself in the field funny stories not to entertain but to 3. LISTENING, QUESTIONING, BEING stimulate learner’s interest and enthusiasm RESPONSIVE, AND REMEMBERING THAT for the subject EACH STUDENT AND CLASS IS DIFF - Pleasant speaking voice - Pushes students to excel but atst being - Animated gestures human and respectful of others - Skill at timing – knowing when to adapt 4. Being flexible, fluid, and having confidence speed of delivery for a whole class, and to react and adjust to changing when to stop circumstances - Humor – often part of style. Telling funny 5. Good teaching is about style stories of human situations, laughing w/ 6. Good teaching is abt humor students or laughing at oneself even in- 7. Devoting time, often invincible to every front of the class student - Willingness to share one’s stories from own 8. Supported by strong leadership and professional experiences to illustrate tangible instructional support resources certain point 9. Mentoring between junior and senior 2 BASIC CATEGORIES OF TEACHING STYLES faculty, teamwork, being recognized by one’s peers 1. TEACHER CENTERED 10. Having fun, pleasure LEARNER ROLE OF EDUCATING OTHERS - Learner needs and wants to learn 2. READINESS TO LEARN - Most essential intervention a nurse - Learner is receptive to learning performs 3. LEARNING STYLE - Most important person in the education - How learner best learns/prefers to learn process - Educators enhance learning when they LEARNING NEEDS serve as facilitators, helping learners 1. Identify the learner becaome aware of what needs to be 2. Choose the right setting known, valuable, acquiring information, 3. Collect data abt the learner gives support, encouragement and direction 4. Collect data from the learner during the process of learning 5. Involve members of healthcare team TYPES OF LEARNERS 6. Prioritize needs 7. Provide only need or want to know info 1. VISUAL LEARNER 8. Determine availability of education - Learn by reading or seeing pictures resources - Understand and remember things by sight - Can picture what u are learning in ur head READINESS TO LEARN - Neat and clean - Learner demonstrates interest in learning - Close their eyes to visualize/remember info necessary to maintain optimal health or smth become skillful in a job - Easily distracted by sounds - PEEK(PHYSICAL READINESS, EMOTIONAL - Attracted to color READINESS, EXPERIENTIAL READINESS, 2. AUDITORY LEARNERS KNOWLEDGE READINESS) - Hearing and listening - Understand and remember things u’ve LEARNING STYLE heard - Where learner most effectively receive, - Store information by the way it sounds process, store, and recall what they are - Easier time understand spoken instructions attempting to learn - Learn by reading out loud in order to know - Observation, interviews, administration it learning style instrument - Hum or talk to self if bored - Roger Sperry-Right and Left Hemisphere - People may think u’re not paying attention even tho u heard n understand Left Hemisphere 3. TACTILE LEARNER - Vocal and analytical side, for verbalization, - Learn by touching and doing reality based and logical thinking, algebra, - Understand and remember things thru organizational skills, time and schedules physical movement - “hand-on” Right Hemisphere - Active and take frequent breaks - Emotional, visual-spatial, non-verbal side, - Speak with hands and gestures w/ thinking processes that are intuitive, - Difficulty in sitting still subjective, relational, holistic, creativity, - Often communicate by touching geometry, body language 3 DETERMINANTS OF LEARNING: 1. LEARNING NEEDS HEALTH EDUCATION: THE BASICS JOINT COMMSSION INTERNATIONAL - Nurses as client educators is an essential - Standards for accreditation: client & staff component in nursing care delivery educ - Focus=care of the skin & promoting health - Required to achieve positive outcomes of of the well public(patient, families, client care thru activities that is client- colleagues/workplace, students) centered and family oriented - Motivate their patients to change their - Interdisciplinary team approach health impairing behavior focusing on - Consider literacy lvl, educ bg, lang. skills n optimizing patients behavior so that health culture status may improve EDUCATION PROCESS HISTORICAL PROGRESS OF H.E - Framework for a participatory shared FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE approach to teaching and learning a. Systemic - FOUNDER OF MODERN NURSING b. Sequential - ULTIMATE EDUCATOR c. Logical - Advocate of education responsibilities of d. Science-based public health nurses e. Planned course of action - Devoted her career to teaching health - Teacher + learner = mutually desired professional on the importance of proper behavior changes conditions in hospital OUTCOME OF NURSING PROCESS FIRST HEALER GAVE THE FIRST PATIENT ADVICE - Knowledge, attitudes, and skills INFLUENCED GROWTH OF PATIENT EDUC TEACHING - Emergence of nursing as a profession surplus of physicians - Interventions that involve sharing info and - Technological developments client- exp to meet learner outcomes (affective, caregiver relationship cognitive, psychomotor) - Spread of tuberculosis - Formal or informal obj = produce learning - Increased interest of mothers on child care - Comprise conscious actions on part of teacher in responding to indiv’s need to AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION learn - Health educ as an integral component of - Doesn’t have to lengthy n complex the client’s bill of right CUE’S - Health professionals’ obligation n legal responsibility - Verbal request - Question NATIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE - Puzzled or confused look PREVENTION OBJECTIVES - Blank stare - Educational and community based - Gesture of defeat or frustration programs PATIENT EDUCATION - Focused on disease prevention and health promotion - Set of planned educational activities using a - Represented a logical response to the cost combination of methods (teaching, containment efforts occurring in health care counseling & behavior modification) designed to improve patients knowledge - LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENTAL and behaviors CONSIDERATIONS - INTERVENTIONS STAFF EDUCATION - GOAL - Process of influencing behavior of nurses by - ADHERENCE producing changes in their knowledge BASIC FUNDAMENTAL FORM OF H.E attitudes and skills help them maintain and improve competencies for delivery of high 1. INTENTIONAL H.E quality care to consumer. PURPOSE: change unfavorably health impairing ASSURE MODEL behavior to a lifestyle that supports health - Paradigm to assist nurses in organizing & - Ensure conscious change in knowledge, carrying out educational process attitude, and behavior of a person - Cannot be obliged to change the way they TEACHING STRATEGY handle their health - Plan of action for instruction that 2. FACILITATING H.E anticipates barriers & resources of learning - Knowledge transfer, provision of info experience to achieve behavioral objectives CONDITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ROLE OF NURSE AS EDUCATOR - Information is provided w/o obligation - Must have solid foundation in principles of - “” current and objectively formulated teaching & learning - “” expected need of client to be informed - Learner centered approach - Offered in forms of folder, brochure, web - An active partner in decision making apps throughout learning process DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF A LEARNER Learner can’t be made to learn but an effective - The more heterogenous the target approach in educating others to create teachable audience, the more complex the moment rather than waiting for it to happen to development of an educational program to actively involve learners in process meet diverse needs of population HEALTH EDUCATION Educators acknowledge the effects of growth and - Systematic and methodical attempts to development on an individuals willingness and change lifestyle and health behavior of ability to make use of instruction people by motivating them to a healthier FUNDAMENTAL DOMAINS OF DEVELOPMENT: behavior - Instrument of health promotion, tool in PHYSICAL , COGNITIVE, PSYCHOSOCIAL health care APPROPRIATE TIME TO TEACH LEARNER? - HEALTH PROMOTION Aimed to motivate people towards different - When learner is READY healthier behavior and changing - Interpersonal relationship is established unfavorable lifestyles - Prerequisite knowledge n skills have - MOTIVATION mastered - DISEASE PREVENTION - Motivation - LIFESTYLE CHANGES PEDAGOGY – art n sci of helping children to learn Learning in this stage is SUBJECT CENTERED ANDRAGOGY – art n sci of teaching adults LEARNER CENTERED N LESS TEACHER CENTERED GERAGOGY – learning for older adults
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF CHILDHOOD
INFANCY (0-12 MONTHS) & TODDLERHOOD (1-2) Psychological stage – trust vs mistrust Toddler: autonomy vs shame and doubt Focus of instruction: Parents Focus of teaching: importance of stimulation, nutrition, practice of safety measures to prevent injury & illness, health promotion, typical development Problem: ANXIETY SEPARATION ANXIETY - children feel insecure in an unfamiliar environment - adversely affect readiness to learn - increased due to restrictions - compounded when subjected to med interventions by strangers Establish relationship with child and parents - provide consistency to reduce child fear of strangers - presence of parents Health teaching should take place In an environment familiar to the child