STRATEGIES IN HEALTH EDUCATION Education Process systemic, sequential, planned course of action consisting of two major interdependent operations,

, teaching and learning which form a continuous cycle. Health Education a participatory educational approach, often used interchangeably with the term Patient/Client Education, aimed at preventing disease, promoting positive health & incorporating the physical, mental & social aspects of learning needs. Client Education major practice of nursing practice & an important independent nursing function is multifaceted involves teaching about reducing health in risk factors increasing a persons level of wellness & providing information about specific protective health measures. is a process of assisting people to learn health-related behaviors in order to incorporate them in everyday life with the purpose of achieving the goal of optional health & independence in selfcare. Purposes of Client Education/Health Education maintenance of health & illness prevention restoration of health coping with the impaired function Staff Education process of influencing the behavior of nurses by producing changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes & values required to maintain & improve their competences for the delivery of quality care to the concern. Role of the Nurse as an Educator the nurse should act as facilitator, creating an environment conductive to learning-one that motivates individuals to want to learn & make it possible for them to learn. The emphasis should be in the facilitator of learning from a non-directive rather than a deductive teaching approach. to promote learning & environment conductive to learning. the role of the nurse as teacher should stem from a partnership philosophy. the nurse should serve as coordinator of teaching efforts. Barriers to Education factors impending the nurses ability to deliver educational services many nurses as well as other health care personnel are traditionally ill prepared to teach there are multitude of health care providers covering much of the same content, but not necessarily with consistency personal characteristics of the nurse educator play an important role in determining the outcome of the teaching-learning interaction. low priority was often assigned to patient & staff education by administration & supervisory personnel. lack of time to teach in a major ongoing barrier inadequate documentation lack of space & privacy in various environmental settings Learning is a change in human disposition or capability that persists over a period of time & that cant be solely accounted for by growth.

Compliance individuals desire to learn & to act on the learning

Andragogy the art & science of helping adults Pedagogy the discipline concerned with helping children to learn. Domains of Learning 1. Cognitive Domain thinking domain a. Knowledge remembers previously learned material b. Comprehension understands the meaning of learned material c. Application applies newly learned material in a new concrete situation d. Analysis breaks learned material into component parts and separates important from unimportant material e. Synthesis takes part of learned material & puts them together to form a new material f. Evaluation judges the value of the learned material 2. Affective Domain feeling domain a. Receiving this level represents a willingness to selectively attend to or focus on a data or to receive a stimuli. b. Responding indicates a movement beyond denial towards voluntary acceptance which can lead to a feeling of pleasure or enjoyment as a result of some new experience c. Valuing means attaching worth to an object or behavior d. Organizing to organize, classify & prioritize values by integrating a new value into a general set of values e. Characterization involves acting & responding with a consistent value of system. The person behaves consistently when values are tested & challenged.