I can’t imagine any nursing/health care providers who do not involve teaching. Every day, what I do with clients is teaching. I can’t imagine my professional role without not involving teaching. Teaching is a important part of our role. Most of teachings so far I have done are psycho-education about diseases, medications (psychotropic medications), and patient care teaching such as healthy behaviors, healthy diets, and crisis Interventions. Most time I use explanations, giving handouts so that clients have extra resources to look at. After the Module 4, I realize that I should invest more time to create fun and effective teaching methods to enhance learning. For example, I could have used color pictures of psychotropic medications to enhance clients’ learning visually. When I create handouts for teaching, I also can use variety of methods to increase effectiveness of teaching, maximizing learning capacity. Or I could search websites that may be helpful for clients that are met HON code criteria.
Good point Eunyoung, yes, in the nursing profession we are constantly teaching in both formal and informal setting. Adapting your teaching methods to make it fun and interesting is a good idea. It's important to adapt teaching to the learners needs.
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