Teaching plan

Baylor University

Louise Herrington School of Nursing

Development of Patient Teaching Plan for NUR 4335 PNP: Transition to Practice

Teaching is a major role of the nurse and is important in all nursing areas. There are chapters in LHSON nursing textbooks such as Chapter 25 in your Potter and Perry text (Potter, P.A., Perry A.G., Stockert, P.A. & Hall, A.M. (2017). Fundamentals of nursing (9th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby), as well as additional references such as Bastable, S. (2017). Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett. The LRC has excellent resources for the development of teaching plans and guides for effective instruction.

Instructions:

1. Identify a common learning need from your assigned unit’s patient population. (Example: Diabetes, Orthopedics, cardiovascular)

2. Develop a teaching plan to address these needs. Write 3 behavioral learning objectives that are appropriate to your patient population. The objectives must be measureable, including behavior, metric for measuring, conditions, time.

3. From these objectives, identify the specific teaching content in the teaching column. Remember that the teaching content should be specific enough for another nurse to take your plan and teach exactly what you taught. (This should be what you will teach.)

4. Then, identify the appropriate teaching methods that you plan to use for each objective/content (ex. Discussion, 1:1, etc.) and the approximate time estimated for teaching that content and write in appropriate columns.

5. For each learning objective, identify the appropriate teaching materials/resources you would use. These must be unit approved resources like the on-line handouts from EPIC, handouts found in the unit drawers, etc. Speak with your preceptor to find out exactly what resources they use for patient education related to your topic and list these in this column. Write in APA format.

6. Lastly, how will you evaluate the patient attainment of the objective from your teaching. Be specific for this; pt will repeat 5 steps in …… without prompting. The evaluation statement should link back to the objective you hoped to achieve.

7. Implement your teaching plan with as many patients as possible.

Grading Rubric for Development of Patient Teaching Plan

1 point = Correctly stated diagnosis – Etiology is nurse-driven, something for which a nurse can intervene.

2 points each objective- contains behavior, condition, metric (measurable), time.

2 points each – content is what the nurses says in layman’s terms

2 points each – method of instruction examples: demonstration, verbal instruction, discussion

1 point each – time estimate

1 point each – unit resources – what is used/available on the assigned unit – exact title and location

1 point each – method of evaluation examples: teach back, return demonstration

Student Name: ___________________________________________________ (1pt.)

1 pt References: