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The Nurse Educator Role
Applying Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies
Teaching methodologies have evaluated from simple questioning techniques to the most advanced practical education methodologies today. However, no single teaching methodology works for all. Based on age, educational background and profession, different people are differently taught. On the issue of diabetes, the patients as well as their family and the community need to be educated. This task is done by physicians and the nurses. The nurses can design plans that can help to teach different strategies to different type of individuals and their families that will help them and convince them to adopt healthy life styles. These strategies can be modified according to demographic factors and nature of disease.
Influence of Learner Characteristics on Teaching Strategies
The short life of useful information has dramatically changed the teaching strategies in healthcare (Russell, Comell, and Wright, 2007). Besides the nature of information, the patient health conditions also require doctors to apply different teaching strategies. For instance when the learner has quadriplegic which is complete paralysis of the body from the neck down, the teacher cannot include physical activities including movement of limbs to teach. Rather only verbal exercises are conducted and the patient is taught through mental not physical exercise. As the age grows, the teens also require to be taught using dynamic and interesting teaching strategies. The scope of the teaching i.e. individual or group or the family also has influence on the teaching strategy. The deaf is taught with visuals and the mentally impaired is often taught as a child even if his age is above forties (Russell, Comell, and Wright, 2007).
The teaching strategies for diabetes are planned to help the patient, his family as well as the society to make healthier life decisions....
The teaching strategy focuses on how to improve the quality of life by adopting the meal plans and dropping unhealthy food like soft and fizzy drinks and tea that are major source of extra sugar (Russell, Comell, and Wright, 2007). The meal plans as well as the individual therapies motivate individuals to develop a family culture that avoids factors leading to diabetes. The meal plans are designed with the help of physician according to the individual needs rather than developing a universal meal plan for all. However, for a family, on the basis of age, gender and/or cultural factors, some similar food items can be advised or forbidden.
The patient can be taught how the meal plan is effective to prevent diabetes. The learner characteristics like mental disability, deafness, age, generation can be overcome by adopting different teaching methodologies. The physician can select to take help of pictures, videos, graphs and facts.
Creative presentations, handouts and surveys help to convince adults as well as teen to understand the importance of balanced meal and avoiding unhealthy meals. The factor of creativity is added to get attention of the audience and to retain the information in the minds of patient, families and the community.
Expectations of the Nurse Educator in Development of Learning Opportunities
The role of nurses has changed much more than any other medical profession. The nurses are relatively more empowered today. There are registered nurses that do many of the tasks that the doctors used to perform in past. Bahn (2007) studied that the nurses need to have more knowledge about patient history and the disorder that he has. This helps in implementing the teaching and learning plans. Better the nurses are at understanding the disability, better they can plan the lecture so that maximum knowledge is understood and retained by the student. Besides the age factor and the nature of ailment, the nurses are also expected…
References
1) Bahn, D., (2007), "Reasons for post registration learning: Impact of the learning experience," Nurse Education Today, 27(7), 715-722
2) Russell, A.T., Comell, R.J., and Wright, D.L., (2007), "Teaching Strategies Promoting Active Learning in Healthcare Education," Journal of Education and Human Development, 1(1), Retrieved from: http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1025.htm
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