2nd mandatory blog

Thoughts:

I thought a lot about what to post regarding the course content. During this time, I got to thinking how our course content would apply to patient teaching. Since nurses do a lot of patient teaching, do we try to determine what kind of learners our patients are?. I don't think so. We tend to have formulaic brochures or commercially produced vides that we use as educational materials for our patients. Sometimes we sit with them and sometimes we don't. We are available to answer questions however.
My conclusion is that nurses should ask patients how best they learn-looking at pictures, writing down things or listening to videos. This is in place of them taking a learning inventory, which would probably be too time consuming for a busy nursing unit.

I also think that nurses should be aware of their teaching style. I don't think that we teach this at the BSN or ADN level. We are concerned about how well the student can do an oral presentation and how good the content of their materials for their patient teaching projects are. We need to add materials on teaching styles and learning styles to our undergraduate curriculum.

So, I did some really hard thinking about what we have done so far in class. I guess this comes under the category of application.