Please Help Me With A Teaching Care Plan!!!!

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jul 13, 2009

first of all, kids respond well to games, so i would adapt any teaching into a game format in order to hold their attention. depending on the age group keep in mind their milestone development and what they are capable of doing and understanding for their age group and tailor your presentation to that. a clever story using a character they are already familiar with might be a way to go. depending on the subject, it has probably already been taught and there is probably something already on the internet if you put the right search words in and look in the right places. the various national institutes of health (http://www.nih.gov/) often have storehouses of preprinted teaching materials and pamphlets that can be downloaded for free as well as many of the national foundations for the major diseases. kids health ([color=#231f20]http://www.kidshealth.org), a pediatric website should be explored for ideas.

a written teaching plan goes something like this:

overview: a synopsis about what is going to be taught
goal(s): the aim(s) or outcome(s) that you want your learner to achieve as a result of the lesson you plan
objectives: the more specific information that the learner will come away from the course knowing that will achieve the goal(s) you have determined.
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.
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.
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.

if you look at it, it has many of the elements of a care plan (goals, interventions, execution and evaluation). what is different is that you actually lay out a list of how you are going to do the teaching, kind of like a nursing procedure is laid out step-by-step for you. a teaching plan is often a nursing intervention that is part of solving one of the nursing problems. or, the teaching plan is a major nursing intervention included with the diagnosis of deficient knowledge, specify. when we had to do teaching plans with our care plans when i was getting my bsn we had to include an outline of the teaching plan based on the above information (what we were teaching, goals, specific learner objectives, teaching content, copies of any handouts we gave the learners, and how we determined that the goals were met which included attaching any post test information/test results).

shadowrose45 · Jul 22, 2009

Ok, I'm confused. How can you teach anything to a 2 week old? Or am I really being stupid--and what you need is a careplan for teaching employees to care for this age group?

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jul 22, 2009

Ok, I'm confused. How can you teach anything to a 2 week old? Or am I really being stupid--and what you need is a careplan for teaching employees to care for this age group?

Have you taken your growth and development class yet? Guess you haven't gotten to the part where you find out that we begin learning while in the uterus and stop learning the moment we draw our last breath.