this presentation is used for the nursing student regarding the patient teaching uses, & guidline & importance in the nursing education & filed work

1. BY: MS. RINKAL PATEL

2. DEFITION
 Health teaching is defined as a flexible, person-
oriented process in which the helping person provides
information & support to client with a variety of health
related to learning needs.

3. PURPOSE OF PATIENT TEACHING
 To promote health.
 To protect health.
 To maintain health.
 To identify relevant health care needs of client.
 To provide emotional & cognitive support during
teaching learning process.
 To keep nurse knowledge.
 To raise self-confidence of a nurse in teaching.

4. IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH
TEACHING
 Providing patient teaching is an important function of
nurse. As client has right to know right information, giving
information regarding clients health status is mandatory.
 Patient teaching involves dynamic interaction between
client & nurse. Patient teaching is important to
communicate information, emotion, perception and
attitude towards health or disease condition.
 Patient teaching ensure the patient safe transition from
one level of care to another. It also help in making
appropriate plans for follow-up education in the clients
homes.
 As client has right to make informed decisions about his
health, giving patient teaching is very important.

5. ROLE OF NURSE IN PATIENT
TEACHING
 In patient teaching, the nurse works are as a educator
so the nurse needs to be knowledgeable & confident.
 The nurse should keep in mind the patients age,
educational status, socioeconomically status, learning
needs of the patient before providing teaching.
 The important role of the nurse is to help the client
personally work through the problem & identity
needs. It is observed that sometimes client need help
in identification of information relevant to their
situation before they can see a need.

6.  The nurse should observe the clients emotional,
physical needs. Because in anxiety, pain, the client
cannot be attentive.
 The nurse needs to encourage & motivate the nurse to
learn at specific time.
 The nurse needs to provide conductive environment
while delivering information to client. She should
observe lighting system, ventilation, & temperature &
noise free atmosphere.

7.  The nurse should make the patient to actively involved
in patients teaching. Active participation, active
learning promotes critical thinking & enable the client
to solve problems more effectively.
 The nurse should follow the principles of teaching
such as simple to complex; the nurse should organize
the content of client teaching.

8. GUIDELINE FOR EFFECTIVE
PATIENT TEACHING
 Development & maintenance of rapport between
nurse client is important.
 Knowledge of clients previous learning enables nurse
to encourage client & facilitate learning skill.
 Time for developing teaching should be opted as per
clients convenience.
 Nurse should have all communication skill such as
confidence, good voice & tone, eye contact, speak
clearly & concisely.
 Language: Local language should be prepared as it will
be easily understood by client.

9.  Active involvement of client fosters learning.
 Reputation reinforces learning, so at the end of
learning summarization of content should be done.
 Teaching that involves number of clients senses often
enhance learning such as giving demonstration.
 Use of audio-visual aids foster learning & grasp the
clients attention.