Need Help for a Teaching Plan :(

[pacuRN26]

Hi guys! I'm a little stuck because I have to do a teaching plan on one of our patients we've had in past clinicals (our clinicals are in a nursing home). Everyone wants the same patient because she is so nice and NOT difficult. Anyway, I thought I could do my teaching plan on Hypertension.

For our plan our teaching outcomes have to be in 3 different domains : Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor.

I've already said that for cognitive she will participate in a question/answer type of discussion with me after I give her a factual description of hypertension. For affective I said she will relate to me her opinions on why it is important to lower blood pressure and what she plans to incorporate into her lifestyle in order to do so. However, I am stuck on Psychomotor, this would mean that she has to actively DO something. At first, I thought, take her own blood pressure! But that would be really difficult I presume, especially because she is a geriatric. And not to mention, inaccurate. So I then thought, my mom has a electronic blood pressure cuff-thingy she uses and I could just borrow that and have her use that so she can take readings everyday. But I've heard those are inaccurate as well. So I don't know what could be an OUTCOME in a psyhomotor domain relating to hypertension teaching.

Also, I wanted to use some visual aids to teach her more about blood pressure and why it is important so I need an idea on a drawing/poster I could do that can simply teach her something about hypertension/blood pressure.

Please help!

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

i honestly can't think of anything that would fit the psychomotor part of the teaching plan, however, there is plenty of patient information sites on the internet where you can find lots of ideas for patient teaching by just searching their healthcare libraries for information on blood pressure. the first site i would check is medline plus (http://www.medlineplus.gov/) and put "blood pressure" in the search box. i listed a whole bunch of these weblinks on this thread not too long ago: https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/medical-disease-information-treatment-procedures-test-reference-websites-258109.html

however, if you know of any large medical centers you should check their websites to see what kind of consumer information they have for the public/consumers. some of these medical center consumer information sites have terrific information on them.