Essentials of patient education

Summary: Essentials of Patient Education, Second Edition prepares nurses for their increasing role in patient teaching, health education and health promotion. Highly revised, the Second Edition focuses on the basic principles of teaching and learning by emphasizing the role of the professional nurse in educating patients and families effectively and efficiently in various healthcare settings. The Second Edition explores new topics of motor learning and gender differences in the brain as well as, the ethics of patient education and the legal role of the nurse as mandated by state practice. The text features completely revised chapter content and updated references that provide evidence from research and theoretical foundations which substantiate content throughout the text. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781284104448
ISBN: 1284104443
ISBN: 9781284104462
ISBN: 128410446X
Physical Description: print
xviii, 569 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Overview of education in health care -- Ethical, legal, and economic foundations of the educational process -- Applying learning theories to healthcare practice -- Determinants of learning -- Developmental stages of the learner -- Health behaviors of the learner -- Literacy in the adult patient population -- Gender, socioeconomic, and cultural attributes of the learner -- Educating learners with disabilities -- Behavioral objectives and teaching plans -- Teaching methods and settings -- Instructional materials -- Technology in patient education -- Evaluation in healthcare education.