After some discussion with co-workers (those front line nurses left responsible for co-ordinating and ensuring that patients have adequate knowledge of personal health care education); I needed to take a step back and evaluate methods of giving health care education. The bigger, first question became "what are the principles of adult education?".
So...I decided that I had to look at the key elements of andragogy. Looking at adult learning principles has been my quest over the past week.
As always I will be using the standard definition of health literacy that maintains providing individuals with the skills, resources, and motivation to obtain, process, and understand basic health information allowing the individual to make appropriate health care decisions relevant to the individual.
I am excited, The Facility-wide diabetes education committee has requested that I give a 15 min or so presentation regarding health care education and adult learning principles.
On another note: My question for the project has been refined: "How does the composition of health care patient educational materials affect health care conversations between nurses and patient?"
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