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Evaluating Learner Requirements Task
Overview
An essential aspect of a nurse’s role is to provide health teaching and health promotion interventions. Nurses must use an individualized approach tailored to meet each client’s unique needs, preferences, and learning styles. A critical part of this process is assessing the client’s readiness to learn and identifying barriers that may hinder learning and compliance.
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Assignment Instructions
Task
You will analyze a provided scenario to assess a client’s learning needs and develop an appropriate teaching approach.
Analysis Components
- Assess client’s readiness to learn
- Identify potential barriers to learning:
o Language/communication barriers
o Health literacy limitations
o Client discomfort
o Cultural considerations
o Cognitive/sensory impairments
o Lack of social support
o Client resistance
o Low motivation/desire to change
- Determine available teaching resources (based on facility)
Evaluating Learner Requirements Task
Client Scenario
Patient Profile: Mrs. Holland, 46-year-old female
Medical History:
- Discharged from hospital 4 days ago after myocardial infarction (MI)
- Placement of drug-eluting stent in right coronary artery through angioplasty
- Unremarkable medical history before MI
- Previously taking only Vitamin D3 125 mcg PO QD
Social History:
- Married with three children (ages 9, 12, and 15)
- Works full-time as an elementary school teacher
Current Status:
- Feeling overwhelmed by her health status and new medications
- Cannot pronounce medication names
- Does not understand medication purposes
- Has difficulty managing medication schedule
- Has already missed doses and taken some medications twice
Evaluating Learner Requirements Task
Plan of Care:
- Follow up with cardiologist in 10 days
- Return to primary care in two months for Prevnar 20 vaccine
- Continue prescribed medications:
- Ticagrelor 90 mg – 1 tablet PO BID (morning and evening)
- Metoprolol 75 mg (25 mg/tablet) – 3 tablets PO QD (morning)
- Lisinopril 10 mg – 1 tablet PO QD (morning)
- Low-dose aspirin (81 mg/tablet) – 1 tablet PO QD (morning)
- Atorvastatin 80 mg – 1 tablet PO QD (evening)
- Vitamin D 1,000 mg – 1 tablet PO QD
Note to Students: Consider the patient’s technological preferences, learning style indicators, body language, and motivational factors in your assessment.
Required Questions to answer in APA format with in-text citations from reputable sources. Include the Title page and Reference page
- 3 minimum references required within the last 5 years
- 5 sentences minimum for each question
- Learning Style Assessment:
o What does the client (patient/family) say about their learning style?
Evaluating Learner Requirements Task
- Teaching Approach:
o How will you teach a client with this learning style?
- Readiness Evaluation:
o How do you know this client is ready to learn?
o Address client’s body language
o Identify intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
- Learning Ability Analysis:
o Evaluate client’s ability to learn (cognition, literacy, physical condition)
- Readiness Conclusion:
o After reviewing all of the above, is your client ready to learn? Why or why not? (Be specific)
- Teaching Plan:
o What do you plan on teaching our client?
o Provide 2 teaching SMART Outcomes (goals) with 1 intervention each with rationales
- Decision Basis:
o What data did you base this decision on? (Be specific)
- Resource Provision:
o What resources will you give your client?
- Resource Utilization:
o How will you use these resources based on your client’s learning style?