Competency Appraisal 2

Integrating Health Education,

Collaboration and Team Work

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CLIENT EDUCATION

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 Patient Education
• The process by which health professionals and
others impart information to patients and
their caregivers that will alter health behaviors
or improve their health status.

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 Health Education
• Is a tool used by managed care plans, and may
include both general preventive education or
health promotion and disease or condition
specific education.

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 Important Elements of
Patient Education:
Patients need to know – they need to make a
lifestyle change…
1. When
2. How
3. Why
4. Group effort is equally important

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 Value of Patient Education
1. Improved understanding of medical
condition, diagnosis, disease or disability
2. Improved understanding of methods and
means to manage multiple aspects of
medical condition
3. Improved self-advocacy in deciding to act
both independently from medical providers
and in interdependence with them

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 Value of Patient Education
4. Increase compliance
5. Patient Outcomes
6. Informed consent
7. Utilization
8. Satisfaction and referrals
9. Risk Management

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Competencies of a Health Educator
• Incorporate a personal ethics in regard to
social responsibilities and services towards
others.
• Provide accurate, competent, and evidence-
based care.
• Practice preventive health care.
• Focus on relationship-centered care with
individuals and their families.

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Competencies of a Health Educator
• Incorporate the multiple determinants of
health when providing care.
• Be culturally sensitive and be open to a
diverse society.
• Use technology appropriately and effectively.
• Be current in the field and continue to
advance education.

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 Patient Education Process
• Assessment
• Planning and Diagnosis

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Strategies to promote the incorporation
of teaching into nursing practice

• Emphasize what is necessary

• Choose the right time
• Look for teaching moments
• Plan teaching during an uninterrupted time
• Use basic principles
• Evaluate the sense
• Keep expenses in mind
• Clearly define goals and objectives
• Document
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DISCHARGE

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 Discharge Planning
• The process of preparing a client to leave one
level of acre for another within or outside
health care agency.

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 Effective Discharge Planning involves:

• Ongoing assessment
• Statement of nursing diagnosis
• Plans

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 Discharge Planning:
Home Assessment Parameters
• Personal and Health Data
• Abilities to perform ADL’s
• Disabilities and Limitations
• Caregiver’s responses/abilities
• Financial Resources
• Community supports
• Home hazard appraisal
• Need for health care assistance
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REFERRALS

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 Referral
• Is a systematic problem-solving approach that
helps clients to use resources that meet their
health care needs.
• It involves knowledge of community resources
and an ability to solve problems, set priorities,
coordinate, and collaborate.

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 Nursing Discharge/Referral Summaries

• These are being completed when the client is

being discharged and transferred to another
institution or to home setting

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 Information needed:
1. Description of client’s status at discharge or
transfer.
2. Resolved health problems.
3. Unresolved continuing health problems and
continuing care needs
4. Treatments that are need to be continued
5. Current medications
6. Restrictions
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 Information needed:
7. Functional/self care abilities
8. Comfort level
9. Support networks
10.Client education
11.Discharge destination
12.Referral services

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Legal Responsibility
Nursing Jurisprudence
RA 9173 and other Relevant laws
Pertinent Board of Nursing Resolutions
CHED Memo#5, 14
Health Care and Other Organizational Policies

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Legal Responsibility

NURSING JURISPRUDENCE

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 Nursing Jurisprudence
• A branch of law which deals with the study of
nursing law, lawsuits, liabilities, legal
principles, rules and regulations, case laws and
doctrines affecting the nursing practice.
• Juris – Laws
• Prudentia - Knowledge

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 Jurisprudence on Fault and Negligence

• Fault – when a nurses action is contrary to

what should have been done to the patient.
• Negligent – when there is a failure in
observing the necessary protection of interest
and wellness of the patient, whereby such
patient suffers an injury or even death.

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CANCER

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