Help with teaching plan and prioritizing teaching interventions for renal failure

renal failure is a broad topic. the first thing you need to do is read about renal failure yourself and narrow the subject. determine what you might think is something that would be important for a patient to be taught. teaching patients generally focuses on these kinds of concepts: the disease itself, prognosis, treatment, self-care. in your study of renal failure you are going to find that renal failure proceeds in stages, so if you want to teach about what causes the disease or how to recognize the symptoms then the stage of renal failure that the patient is in will be important to how you will prioritize the teaching interventions. renal failure is also a complication of diseases such as diabetes. that could be a factor affecting your teaching.

this sticky thread on allnurses contains weblinks you can use to investigate and learn about renal failure which is an associated goal of this assignment. you want to specifically look on the website of the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases (a weblink is provided there) for any teaching materials they have on their website that you could use or examine to give you ideas for your own project. there is also a link on the sticky thread to a site called "kidney school" where you can learn, in simple language, all about renal failure that you can repeat or refer to a patient.

• https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/medical-disease-information-treatment-procedures-test-reference-websites-258109.html - medical disease information/treatment/procedures/test reference websites

a patient teaching plan is organized like this:

1. overview: a synopsis about what is going to be taught in the course
   
2. goal(s): the aim(s) or outcome(s) that you want your learner to achieve as a result of the lesson you plan
   
3. objectives: the more specific information that the learner will come away from the course knowing that will achieve the goal(s) you have determined.
   
4. content: a play-by-play of the specific content that is going to be taught and in the sequence it will happen. your content should address and cover all the objectives. this part of the written lesson plan is presented in an outline format.
   
5. procedures and materials: how all the above will be achieved, i.e. lecture, demonstration, discussion, etc. materials that can be used and resources that can be needed for the lesson to be successful and essential to teaching your lesson plan are listed and may include demonstrations, audio-visuals, handouts, experiments, stories, game playing and any number of other creative items.
   
6. evaluation: determining if you met the goals of the teaching plan. this can be done through a return demonstration, short post test, short question and return answer session with the client to verify they understand the information correctly or a task the participant needs to perform.
   

generally, teaching plans are placed under a nursing diagnosis of deficient knowledge, specify [the "specify" is the detailed subject you are teaching, i.e. deficient knowledge, disease process, deficient knowledge, wound care]or ineffective health maintenance unless your instructors have given you other specific instructions.

good luck with this assignment. i worked on a medical renal unit. this is a interesting condition. our federal government is involved in the treatment of end stage renal failure because of the devastating expense of its treatment. one culture refers to it as "rich man's disease".