Historical Background of

Health Education
Overview of Health Education

The recent developments in the field of health care have served to

highlight
.
the important role of education in “helping the patients
and their families assume responsibility for self-care
management”.

With the current third-party payor system, nurses are expected to be

the prime movers in delivering high quality, effective and efficient
nursing care which will result to shorter hospital confinement and
continuation of recovery and rehabilitation through home care and or
community-based nursing care.
 Historical Development of Health Education
1900 1918 1970

. . .

Public health nurses in this country
clearly understood the significance of
education in the prevention of disease
and in the maintenance of health
NLNE in US recognized the
responsibility of nurses for the
promotion of health and the prevention
of illness in such settings as schools,
homes, hospitals, and industries.
AHA established the rights of
patients to receive complete and
current information concerning
diagnosis, treatment,

1993 1995

JACHO. These standards, Pew Health Professions Commission,

which take the form of
mandates, are based on
descriptions of positive
outcomes of patient care.
influenced by the dramatic changes currently
surrounding health care, published a broad
set of competencies that it believes will mark
the success of the health professions in the
twenty-first century.
Five Areas of Responsibility of Health Education

Planning .

Resource Person
Implementation
Advocate
Evaluation and Research
Historical Development of Health Education

The teaching function will always be an integral part of the

duties of a professional nurse.

Nurse Practice Acts (NPAs) in the US universally include

teaching within the scope of nursing practice responsibilities

In 1993, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare

Organization (JCAHO) delineated nursing standards or mandates for
patient education which are based on positive outcomes for patient
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care.
 Evolution of the Teaching Role of Nurses

Teaching as function
within the scope of
nursing practice
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Educating their
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colleagues

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Training the
trainer
 Education Process
Education process
It is a systematic, sequential, planned
course of action consisting of two major
interdependent operations, teaching and
learning.
This process forms a continuous cycle
that also involves two interdependent
players, the teacher and the learner,
jointly perform teaching and learning
activities, the outcome of which leads to
mutually desired behavior changes.
Teaching/ Instruction
Teaching is a deliberate intervention that
involves the planning and implementation
of instructional activities and experiences
to meet intended learner outcomes
according to a teaching plan.
Instruction is a component of teaching
that involves the communicating of
information about a specific skill in the
cognitive, psychomotor, or affective
domain.
Difference of Nursing Process and Education Process
NURSING PROCESS
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Appraise physical and psychosocial
needs
Develop care plan based on mutual
goal setting to meet individual needs.
Carry out nursing care interventions
using standard procedures
Determine physical and
psychosocial outcomes
EDUCATION PROCESS
ASSESSMENT Ascertain learning needs, .
readiness to learn and learning
styles
PLANNING Develop teaching plan based on
mutually predetermined behavioral
outcomes to meet individual needs
IMPLEMENTATION Perform the act of teaching using
specific teaching methods and
instructional materials
Determine behavioral changes
EVALUATION
(outcomes) in knowledge, .
attitudes, and skills
 ASSURE MODEL
The Assure model is a
paradigm to assist nurses
80%
to carry out and organize 05
and Education Process
04 Evaluate/revise the teaching
and learning process.
03 Requires learner performance.
02 Use Teaching materials
01
Select instructional materials and tools

State the objectives

Analyze the learner

 The Role of Nurse Educator in Staff and Patient
Education

Provide for prevention of Expand public Involve patients and their

illness and promotion of access to families in the decision
healthy lifestyles effective care making regarding health
interventions

06 05 04 03 02 01

Provide clients with Provide clinically

Ensure cost effective . competent and
education and coun-
and appropriate care coordinated care
seling on ethical
for the consumer
. to the public
issues
 The Benefits of Effective Patient Education

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Increase consumer satisfaction
Promote adherence to
healthcare treatment
Improve quality of life plans

Effectively reduce the

Ensure continuity of care
incidence of complications of
illness

Decrease patient anxiety

HAVE A NICE DAY TO ALL