Client Education Strategies for Nurses and Other Health Care Providers

Catalog description

Explores current and emerging roles of client education in the knowledge era. RECOMMENDED PREPARATION FOR NURS 468 IS PSYCH 100 OR SOC 001 OR HD FS 129. NURS 468 explores current and emerging roles of client (patient) education in the knowledge era. Emphasis is placed on the application of teaching and learning strategies that deliver empowering and engaging health education to promote wellness, prevent health problems, and manage chronic illness. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: assess the challenges and issues facing nurses and health care providers enacting the role of client educator in the knowledge era; explore the promotion of client health at all levels of prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary; integrate the client education process for individuals, families, groups, and communities; assess learner motivation, readiness, and situational impacts such as psychosocial factors and cultural beliefs that affect the client education process; implement sound, effective teaching and learning strategies in selected clinical settings with special populations; develop teaching plans using taxonomies of educational objectives; select specific teaching strategies and delivery systems, including technology, appropriate for the developmental stage and needs of the learner; describe methods for evaluation of teaching; identify appropriate communication and documentation of the process and outcomes; and list topics in client education which can be further explored through research. This course may be used as a nursing elective or by nurses or other health care workers to increase knowledge and promote successful health teaching to clients.