Directions

Please read all directions carefully before you begin.

  1. Click to download the Patient Teaching Plan Form (Links to an external site.).
    Type your answers directly into this Word document and submit. The use of correct terminology, grammar, and spelling is important! Any references and citations used should be written in APA format. Please utilize in-text citations when appropriate, and list all references in the space provided at the end of the worksheet.
  2. You are required to complete the form using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.). Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
  3. Health Topic: Decide WHAT you would like to teach. Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale.

Select from the following health topics to complete your Patient Teaching Project:

  1. Stress and Time Management
  2. Self-Care (can choose a specific self-care activity)
  3. Prevention of Hazards at Work
  4. Bicycle Safety
  5. Ergonomics (related to work, posture)
  6. Skin Cancer Prevention
  7. Healthy Eating
  8. Exercise/Physical Activity
  9. Suicide
  10. Human Trafficking
  11. Eating Disorders
  12. Substance Abuse (Opioid, Alcohol, Nicotine)
  13. Depression
  14. Palliative Care/Hospice Care
  15. Population and Setting: Once you have selected a topic, you must decide WHO you will be teaching and WHERE the education will take place. (i.e., teaching a classroom of middle school students; teaching community members at a local health fair)
  16. Learning Barriers: Refer to the assigned article: Educating patients: Understanding barriers, learning styles, and teaching techniques for information related to learning barriers and other teaching considerations. Barriers might be cultural, physical, educational, or environmental. You may also want to consider the developmental stages of your selected population.

Example:

  1. The population in this community is known to have a low-literacy level, therefore clear pictures and graphics will be utilized to assist with understanding.
  2. Learning Objectives: Write three specific learning objectives your Visual Teaching Tool will address. Begin each objective with “At the end of this education, the learner will …” Use an action verb to finish the sentence (i.e., list, demonstrate, describe, define, identify).

Solution preview

  State the topic you have selected for your Teaching Project. (Please select from the list provided in the Teaching Project guidelines located in Module 4.)   Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale.The education process will be carried out on depression as a health condition. Depression is a health condition that affected people of all ages and may influence the quality of life of patients in the day to day living. The issue affected people who are suffering from other health conditions or those that are living in the community but are faced with issues of concern on the need for improvement of their living standard. The education on the issue of depression has been selected because there is a need for people to have an understanding of how to manage or prevent the condition. As such, the condition has various complications that could impact the lives of patients such as the loss of gaining weight as affirmed by Zhao et al. (2016). The other complications that the condition will cause are the increase in risks of the person getting panic attacks, problems with their relationship with the others in the community, and the increase in the issue of isolation. Gavin et al. (2011) depict that issues of depression as well as increase risks of one having suicidal thoughts and leading in cases of self-harm. As a result of the extensive complications that could be caused by the condition, there is a need for the people to be educated in ways of prevention and management after identification of the health concern. The focus is as well expected to help in the process of ensuring that patients have an understanding of the fact that an individual suffering from depression does not have to worry much provided they can manage their health standards…..(CONT)

For the PPT

The issue of concern that will be focused on in this case is on depression. Typically, the cases of depression affect people of all ages but one is at a higher risks as a student taking into account the age that one has. In this education presentation a discussion on risks factors, complications, symptoms, and management of depression is presented….

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