Patient and Caregiver Teaching
Role of Patient and Caregiver teaching
- General goals for patient teaching include
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Illness management
- Selection and use of appropriate treatment options
- A teaching plan includes
- Assessment of the patient’s ability and readiness to learn
- Identification of teaching needs
- Development of learning goals with the patient
- Implementation of the teaching
- Evaluation of the patient’s learning.
- Every interaction is a potential “teachable moment”
- Patient and caregiver teaching is challenging
- Teaching plans provide guidelines
- Regulatory agencies provide mandates
Difference between learning and teaching
- Learning
- A persistent change in a person as a result of an experience where he or she acquires knowledge or skill
- Teaching
- An interactive and dynamic process that involves a change in a patient’s knowledge, behavior, and/or attitude in order to maintain or improve health
