HEALTH EDUCATION
LSY 2022-2023
……………… …..OVERVIEW OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE………….…….…….
➢ Teaching is an important aspect of the
nurses professional role whether it be
educating patients and their family
members
➢ PATIENT EDUCATION an issue in nursing
practice and will continue to be a
significant focus in the healthcare
environment
➢ Nurses in the role of educators must
understand the forces both historical and
present day that have influenced and
continue to influence their responsibilities
in practice
★ HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR
PATIENT EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE
➔ Patient education has been part of
healthcare since the first healer gave the
first patient advice about treating his or her
ailments
➔ Efforts by the earliest healers to uniform
occurred even in prehistoric times
➔ Florence Nightingale emerged to be a
resolute advocate of the educational
responsibilities of district public health
nurses and authored health teaching in
towns and villages, which advocated for
school teaching of health rules as well as
health teaching in the home.
★ COMPETENCIES FOR THE PRACTICE
OF HEALTHCARE
➢ Embrace a personal ethic of social
responsibility and service
➢ Provide evidence-based clinically
competent care
➢ Incorporate multiple determinant of health
in patient care
➢ Rigorously practice preventive care
➢ Improve healthcare access for those with
unmet health needs
➢ Practice relationship-centered care with
individuals and families
➢ Provide culturally sensitive care to a
diverse society
➢ Use communication and information
technology effectively and appropriately
➢ Continue to learn and help others learn.
★ BARRIERS TO TEACHING
➔ Lack of time
➔ Lack of motivation skill
➔ Lack of competence and confidence
➔ Low priority status to client education
➔ Questionable effectiveness of client
education
➔ Absence of third-party reimbursement
➔ Documentation difficulties
➔ Negative influences of the environment
★ OBSTACLES TO LEARNING
➔ Lack of time
➔ Stress or illness
➔ Readiness to learn issues
➔ Complexity, fragmentation, and
inconvenience of healthcare system
➔ Extent of needed behavior changes
➔ Lack of support from other healthcare
professionals, family, and friends.
➔ Denial of learning needs
➔ Negative influence of environment
➔ Literacy problems
★ SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL
TRENDS AFFECTING HEALTHCARE
➢ In addition to the professional and legal
standards, various organizations and
agencies have put forth many social,
economic, and political trends nationwide
that affect public health
➢ They focused their attention on the roles of
nurses as teachers and the importance of
client, staff, and student education
★ PURPOSES, GOALS, AND BENEFITS
OF PATIENT AND NURSING / STAFF
EDUCATION
PATIENT EDUCATION
- To increase the competence and
confidence of clients for self management
- To increase responsibility and
- independence of clients for selfcare.
EFFECTIVE TEACHING BY THE NURSE:
● Improve customer satisfaction
● Improve quality of life
● Ensure quality of care
● Decrease patient anxiety
● Reduce complications of illness
● Promote adherence to treatment plans
● Maximize independence in the
performance of ADLs
● Empower people to become actively
involved in the planning of their care
HEALTH EDUCATION
LSY 2022-2023

★ THE EDUCATION PROCESS

- The systematic, sequential, logical,
scientific-based planned course of action
that involves to interdependent operations,
teaching and learning
TEACHING INSTRUCTION:
- Deliberate acts of sharing information and
experiences to meet intended learner
outcomes.
LEARNING
- Change in behavior (knowledge, skills,
attitude) that can be observed or
measured and that occurs at any time or in
any place resulting from exposure
environmental stimuli
PATIENT EDUCATION
- Process of assisting people to learn health
related behaviors that they can
incorporate into everyday life with the goal
of achieving optimal health and
independence in self care.
STAFF EDUCATION
- Influencing the behavior of nurses by
providing changes in their knowledge, skill,
and attitude to help them improve and
maintain their competencies in the delivery
of high quality care to the consumer
ASSURE MODEL
● Analyze the learner
● State the objectives
● Select instructional methods and materials
● Use the instructional methods and
materials
● Require learner performance
● Evaluate teaching plans and revise as
necessary
★ CONTEMPORARY ROLE OF NURSE AS
EDUCATOR
➢ Organizations governing and influencing
nurses in practice have identified teaching
as an important responsibility
➢ Nurses and other healthcare professionals
must have a solid foundation in the
principle of teaching and learning
★ NURSING EDUCATION
TRANSFORMATION
➢ To best serve consumers, healthcare
professionals need to work more closely
together in a collaborative, interdependent
manner and partnership with patients to
deliver appropriate, cost effective, and
efficient care within the complex
environment of the healthcare system.
★ PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
SAFETY
- not harming people with the care that is
rendered.
EFFECTIVENESS
- avoiding overuse of things that do not help.
- ensuring use of things that do help
PATIENT CENTEREDNESS
- people should be in control of their care by
making their own decisions
TIMELINESS
- avoiding delay by reducing needless wait
times.
EFFICIENCY
- avoiding waste by reducing duplication of
tests and procedures
EQUITY
- closing the gap in justice as it relates to
who receives healthcare in type and
extent.
★ QUALITY AND SAFETY EDUCATION IN
NURSING
PATIENT CENTERED CARE
- Patient has control of and is a full partner
in the provision of holistic, compassionate,
and comprehensive care based on the
patients’ values, needs, and preferences.
TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION
- Nurses and other health professionals
must collaborate effectively with open
communication, respect, and mutual
decision making to achieve high quality of
care.
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
- Current evidence must be integrated to
support clinical expertise in providing
optimal healthcare
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
- Measure data and monitor patient
outcomes to develop changes in methods
to continuously improve the quality and
safety in healthcare delivery.
INFORMATICS
- Use information technology to effectively
communicate, manage knowledge,
eliminate error, and support collaborative
decision making.
SAFETY
- Minimize the risk of harm to patients and
healthcare providers through self aid
system evaluation
★ THE FUTURE OF NURSING
HEALTH EDUCATION
LSY 2022-2023

➢ Nurse should practice to the full extent of

their education and training
➢ Nurses should achieve higher level of
education and training
➢ Nurses should be full partners with health
professionals in redesigning healthcare
➢ Effective workforce planning and
policymaking requires better data
collection.