teaching plan for home care patient

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I have to write a case study and teaching plan for a home care patient and or family. The objectives have to contain the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of nursing. Does anyone have any good websites that could help or that have case studies on them that I could look at to get an idea? Or even a website of teaching plans for homecare patients. I have an idea of writing a case study on a patient who is diagnosed with Diabetes and has to give themselves insulin shots. The case study has to include data that shows the specific teaching need of the patient and specific strengths and weaknesses of this patient( why it may be difficult for this person to learn or strengths- why it may be easy for this person person to learn.) Thank you! I just need some direction.

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

case studies are so different from doing care plans on a real patient. the reason is because all you have is a medical diagnosis or some facts that you have been given. you have to assume all the remainder. just like developing a plan of care and any teaching that needs to go into it, you start the nursing care process with data collection. with a case study the only abnormal data you will have to go on is what you will know from what will be seen from the medical diagnostics and what your textbooks will tell you the typical patient with that condition will present with. assume most all those abnormal data components. from those, develop your nursing diagnoses. then, your nursing interventions based on all those abnormal data items that formed your nursing diagnoses. some of your nursing interventions will be teaching items and you will slant your plan of care with the intention that the patient will be going home. i am including some patient teaching sites that i have found recently that you can use to try to find information. medline plus is always a good resource for information on diseases and all kinds of patient oriented information. hope that gives you some guidance in how to get started.

do you have a nursing care plan book to help you with the nursing diagnosis and care plan. you didn't mention what disease the patient had.

medline plus http://www.medlineplus.gov/

up to date patient information (also can get some professional information as well) http://www.patients.uptodate.com/

http://www.muschealth.com/patients_visitors/index.htm - medical university of south carolina

http://www.heathfinder.gov/

http://mayoclinic.com/

http://www.uuhsc.utah.edu/ - university of utah health care home page

http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/

http://www.uuhsc.utah.edu/uuhsc/health - general health information with links on right side of page

http://www.med.utah.edu/pated - gateway into patient education materials. includes a writer's guide on how to write patient education material as well as access to patient materials in spanish. the patient education materials is the first links above. the same materials can be see in a listing by clicking open any topic in the patient education materials pages and then clicking on "catalog by category" at the top of the page or clicking on http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/category_category.cfm

http://www.uuhsc.utah.edu/uuhsc/health/healthsubjects.cfm - listing of patient information subjects in their health database. includes pregnancy and pediatrics as well as spanish versions.

http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/ - access to over 200 health brochures in 24 languages: arabic, armenian, cambodian, chinese, croatian, english, farsi, french, german, haitian creole, hmong, japanese, korean, laotian, portuguese, romanian, russian, samoan, serbo-croatian, somali, spanish, tagalog, thai, tongan, vietnamese.

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

i just happened to think...did you get a lecture on developing a formalized patient teaching plan or have to purchase a textbook on teaching the adult? you may need this information in order to develop your actual teaching plan that you would submit with your case study. here are some diabetes sources you might want to check out.

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=diabetes_clinic&doc=5555 - "learn about diabetes" from vanderbilt eskind diabetes center

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/webpath/tutorial/diabetes/diabetes.html - diabetes tutorial from the university of utah school of medicine with links to slides of tissues

http://www.diabeticlife.org/ - diabetic life. part of the health scout network. health scout makes the short informational video pieces that are played on tvs in the waiting rooms of doctor's offices.

http://diabetes.healthcentersonline.com/ - diabetes health online. has a lot of good information on the types of dm, signs and symptoms, diet and nutrition, insulin and other drugs used to treat it, procedures and tests as well as animations about disease conditions related to diabetes.

you can get a free diabetes-cardiovascular disease tool kit to help your patients reduce their risk of death by on cd-rom or hard copy by calling 1-800-diabetes (1-800-342-2383). this is a joint project of the american diabetes association, the american college of cardiology, and the preventive cardiovascular nurse association. it includes reproducible patient education materials that are related to diabetes and heart disease.

http://flightline.highline.edu/drydberg/diabetes_resources.htm - diabetes resources from one of the nursing schools. links to primary care, medications, foot care and education.

http://diabetes.org/home.jsp - the american diabetes association home page

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