Education Principles for Healthcare Professionals

Catalog description

The focus of this course is on addressing all practical issues health professionals confront as they strive to provide effective patient, family, and staff education. Topics include education in healthcare; application of learning theories to healthcare practice; determinants of learning; compliance, motivation, and behaviors of the learner; literacy in adult client population; socioeconomic and cultural attributes of the learner; learners with disabilities; instructional methods and materials, and evaluation techniques in healthcare education. A minimum grade of C is required to pass this course. This is an upper division online course.