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Teaching & Learning
The basics of teaching, learning, and information technology
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Health Care
Undergraduate 3
02/19/2008

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True
Definition
True or False: Patient teaching is an independent nursing function?
Term
Nightingale
Definition
Who is known as the "ultimate educator"?
Term

Growth of managed care

Increased emphasis on community health & well-being

Cost containment

Advanced technology

Increased complexity of care

Healthcare aims of prevention & promotion

Rising malpractice claims

Expanding scope & depth of nurses practice responsibilities

Consumerism

Demographic trends (aging of population)

 

Definition
Name at least 3 current trends affecting the nurse's role in teaching.
Term
To increase competence & confidence of patients to manage their own self-care & of staff to deliver high quality care
Definition
What is the purpose of patient & staff education?
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To increase self-care responsibility of clients & to improve the quality of care delivered by nurses
Definition

What is the goal of patient & staff education?

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Education Process
Definition
A systematic, sequential, planned course of action on part of both the teacher & learner to achieve outcomes of teaching & learning
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Teaching
Definition
A deliberate intervention that involves planning & implementation of instructional activities & experiences to meet intended learner outcomes
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Instruction
Definition
Aspect of teaching (implementation phase) that involves communicating information about a specific skill area
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Learning
Definition
A change in behaviour (knowlegde, skills, and attitudes) that can occur at any time or in any place as a result of exposure to environmental stimuli
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Patient Education
Definition
Process of helping clients learn health-related behaviours to achieve the goal of optimal health & independence in self-care
Term
To prepare patients & families for self-care
Definition
What is the single most imporant action of nurses as caregivers?
Term
80%
Definition
What percentage of health problems & needs are handled at home?
Term
Staff Education
Definition
Process of helping nurses acquire knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills to improve the delivery of quality care to the consumer
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The ASSURE Model
Definition
A useful paradigm to assist nurses to organize & carry out the education process
Term

Analyze the learner

State the objectives

Select instructional methods & materials

Use teaching materials

Require learner performance

Evaluate/revise teaching/learning process

Definition
What does each letter of the ASSURE model stand for?
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True
Definition
True or False: According to Luker & Caress, specialist skills are required for patient education.
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"Nurses with basic education should be excluded from the patient education process"
Definition
How do Luker & Caress feel about nurses with a minimal education who perform patient teaching?
Term
Barriers to education
Definition
Those factors impeding the nurses ability to optimally deliver educational services
Term
Lack of time to teach
Definition
What do nurses most frequently site as the greatest barrier to education?
Term
Obstacles to learning
Definition
Those factors that negatively impact the learner's ability to attend to & process information
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False - More attention is given to needs of learners who have acute, short-term problems
Definition
True or False: More attention is given to needs of learners who have chronic, long-term conditions
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True

Definition
True or False: Patients cope much more effectively when taught exactly what to expect
Term
Lack of information on how to assess motivation
Definition
What does the textbook state as a particular void in the teaching & learning research?
Term
Educators in the Information Age are becoming facilitators, rather than providers of information
Definition
How has the Information Age changed the role of educators?
Term
To allow the transfer/exhange of information from 1 computer to another
Definition
Why was the Internet created?
Term
True
Definition
True or False: Electronic delivery of health information is in its infancy & there are still many issues that need to be resolved
Term

Consumer Informatics

Definition
Discipline that analyzes consumers' needs for information, studies & implements methods of making information accessible to consumers, and models & integrates consumer preferences into the medical information system
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To ensure confident & informed use of health-related information on the internet
Definition
What is the purpose of the E-Health Code of Ethics?
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False: It includes the study of a wide range of media that can be used to deliver health-related information
Definition

True or False: Consumer informatics is restricted to computer-based programs.

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Authority
Definition
Which criterion for evaluating health-related Websites would ask the question, "Are the sponsors or authors credible?"
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Web browser
Definition
A special software program that locates & displays Web pages
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Search engines/directories
Definition
Computer programs that allow the user to search the Web for particular subject areas
Term
World Wide Web
Definition
A network of information servers around the world that are connected to the Internet
Term
True
Definition
True or False: The WWW can assist nurses in keeping up-to-date on professional & practice issues
Term
The World Wide Web
Definition
Virtual space for information
Term
May help them gain some sense of control over their lives when they are able to access information on their condition
Definition
How can Web use benefit people with chronic illnesses?
Term
Information literacy
Definition
The ability to access, evaluate, organize, and use information from a variety of sources
Term
E-learning
Definition
Using the power of computer technology to provide learning solutions for workforce training
Term

E-learning is a complement to traditional training

Definition
Is e-learning a replacment for traditional training, or a complement to it?
Term
E-mail
Definition
An internet based activity that is a quick, inexpensive, and increasingly popular way to communicate asynchronously via the computer
Term
Digital Divide
Definition

The gap between those individuals who have access to information technology resources & those who do not

Term
Recognizing those groups at risk for limited access
Definition
What is the 1st step in promoting digital inclusion?
Term
Gray Gap
Definition

Limited computer & internet usage of people older than 65 years of age

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False
Definition
True or False: Computer-delivered education should be discounted as a teaching/learning possibility for the senior population
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Goal
Definition

The final outcome of what is achieved at the end of the teaching-learning process

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Objective
Definition
A behaviour describing the performance learners should be able to exhibit to be considered competent
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True
Definition

True or False: Objectives must be achievable before goals can be reached

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The setting of objectives & goals
Definition
What is considered to be the initial, most important consideration in the education process?
Term
Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor
Definition
What are the 3 types of learning domains?
Term
Cognitive
Definition
Learning in this domain involves acquisition of information based on the learner's intellectual abilities & thinking processes
Term
Cognitive
Definition
Which domain is the traditional focus of most teaching?
Term
Affective
Definition

Educators tend to be less confident & more challenged in writing behavioural objectives for this domain

Term
True
Definition

True or False: A nurse's personal value system must coincide with the values of the nursing profession

Term
Subjective; values-driven
Definition
Nurses are encouraged to attend to the needs of the whole person by recognizing that learning is ______ & ______-______.
Term
Psychomotor
Definition
Learning in this domain involves acquiring fine & gross motor abilities with increasing complexity of neuromuscular coordination
Term

1) Observing

2) Imitation

3) Practicing

4) Adapting

Definition
What are the steps in acquiring a psychomotor behaviour?
Term
True
Definition
True or False: It is inappropriate to ask knowledge questions while teaching a skill.
Term
Transitory action; permanent
Definition
Performance is a ____ ____; learning is a ____ behaviour.
Term
Readiness to learn, motivation to learn, past experience, health status, environmental stimuli, anxiety level, developmental stage, practice session length
Definition
Name at least 3 factors that influence psychomotor skill acquisition
Term
Behavioural Objectives
Definition
Action-oriented, learner-centered outcomes of the teaching/learning process
Term
Internal Consistency
Definition
What is the major criterion for judging a teaching plan?
Term
20-30 minutes
Definition
How long should the average teaching session last?
Term
Learning/Experience Curve
Definition
A graphic depiction of changes in psychomotor performance at different stages of practice during a specified time period
Term
Learning/Experience Curve
Definition
Term used to describe how long it takes for the learner to acquire a knowledge, attitude, or motor skill
Term

1) Negligible Progress

2) Increasing Gains

3) Decreasing Gains

4) Plateau

5) Renewed Gains

6) Approach to Limit

Definition

What are the 6 stages of the learning curve?

Term

Teaching/Instructional Strategy

Definition
An overall plan of action for instruction that anticipates barriers & resources of the learning experience to achieve specific behavioural outcomes
Term
Methods; instructional materials
Definition
____ are a way, an approach, or a process to communicate information, whereas ____ ____ are the actual vehicles by which information is shared with the learner
Term
Affective & psychomotor
Definition
Lecture is ineffective for which 2 domains?
Term
6-8 members
Definition

What is the ideal group size?

Term
Group Discussion
Definition
Teaching method in which patients are together to exchange information & feelings with each other & the nurse to achieve educational objectives
Term
To make sure that every member of the group has interpreted the information correctly
Definition
What is the teacher's responsibility when conducting a group discussion?
Term
Helping the learner through the stages of change
Definition
When interacting with the learner during one-on-one teaching, what should the nurse focus on?
Term
True
Definition
True or False: One-to-one teaching should be well-tailored to make the expense of it worthwhile
Term
Facilitator
Definition
What is the teacher's role during gaming?
Term
Subjective feedback comes from learners themselves; objective feedback comes to learners from the teacher
Definition
What is the difference between subjective & objective feedback?
Term
Gold
Definition
What is the colour of open access journals?
Term
Green
Definition
What is the colour of commericial journals that permit authors to self-archive?
Term
White or Gray
Definition
What is the colour of journals that do not permit self-archiving of published work?
Term
SHERPA
Definition
Company that is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities
Term

1) Creation of searchable, indexed, and networked electronic repositories

2) Dissemination of scholarship

Definition

What are the goals of open access?

Term
Learning Theory
Definition
A coherent framework & set of integrated contructs & principles directed toward describing, explaining, and predicting learning
Term
Behaviorist Theory
Definition
Learning theory that states that in order to change behaviour, we need to change the stimulus conditions in the environment & the reinforcement after a response
Term
Respondent Conditioning
Definition
States that learning occurs as the organism responds to stimulus conditions & forms associations
Term
Systematic Desensitization
Definition
A type of respondent conditioning that is frequently used to treat drug addictions, phobias, and tension headaches
Term

Operant Conditioning

Definition
States that learning occurs as the organism responds to stimuli in the environment & is reinforced for making a particular response
Term
Positive reinforcement & negative reinforcement (escape or avoidance conditioning)
Definition
What are 2 ways to increase a behaviour using operant conditioning?
Term
Nonreinforcement & punishment
Definition
What are 2 ways to decrease behaviour using operant conditioning?
Term
To decrease a specific behaviour & instill self-discipline
Definition
What are the purposes of punishment?
Term
Cognitive Theory
Definition
States that for individuals to learn, they must change their cognitions
Term
Cognitive Theory
Definition
Learning theory that states that reward is not necessary for learning
Term
Gestalt Perspective
Definition
States that perception & the patterning of stimuli are the key to learning
Term
Cognitive Development Theory
Definition
Learning theory that states that developmental stages should be recognized & appropriate experiences to encourage "discovery" should be provided
Term
Social Constructivist
Definition
Learning theory that states that learning is heavily influenced by culture & occurs as a social process in interaction with others
Term
Social Cognition Perspective
Definition
Learning theory that states that an individuals perceptions, beliefs, and social judgements are strongly affected by social interaction, communication, groups, and the social situation
Term
Social Cognition Perspective
Definition
Learning theory that believes that the route to changing health behaviours is to change distorted attributions
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