Need help with teaching and learning plan, Dont know how to get it started

your mind should never be blank. we have the nursing process to help us. the nursing process is the problem solving method that we use and that is what you use to help you out. the steps of the nursing process are:

1. assessment (collect data from medical record, do a physical assessment of the patient, assess adl's, look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology)
   
2. determination of the patient's problem(s)/nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnoses to use)
   
3. planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)
   
4. implementation (initiate the care plan)
   
5. evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

the first thing you do for each scenario is make an assessment of the information you have, then determine what you patient's problem(s) are. that leads you to planning the teaching that will be required. the information that you gathered during your assessment is going to give you some specific areas to focus on (ex: the diabetic is particularly afraid of the complications of diabetes since his mother died from them, so you will need to taper his teaching with emphasis on the complications.)

you can see lots of examples of patient teaching materials on the websites of many hospitals. some are listed on this thread:

• https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/medical-disease-information-treatment-procedures-test-reference-websites-258109.html - medical disease information/treatment/procedures/test reference websites - there is a link there to the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases which has a huge library of teaching materials for diabetes

this site has all kinds of information on infant care, but you should be able to find many more on the internet to look at to give you teaching ideas:

• http://www.medem.com/medlb/articleslb.cfm?sub_cat=549 - links to medem consumer teaching articles on prenatal and newborn care