Teaching Care Plan Help

[sallynRN]

Hi! Is a "teaching" care plan simply one where each intervention is focused on patient teaching? I have to do two for my maternal/newborn clinical rotation, and I'm unsure. One has to focus on maternal teaching, and the other on teaching re: newborn. My maternal dx is impaired comfort related to external hemorrhoid, and my interventions relate to teaching comfort measures (ie: sitz bath, use of witch hazel, etc.), and prevention of hardened stools and/or constipation (ie: fluids, stool softener, etc.). I haven't committed to a dx for teaching re: newborn, but I'm leaning toward effective breastfeeding. I'm not sure what my interventions should be. I'm thinking along the lines of educating mom on signs that breast feeding remains effective. Could someone let me know if I'm heading in the right direction?

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

is a "teaching" care plan simply one where each intervention is focused on patient teaching?

yes.

a written teaching plan goes something 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.
   

if you look at it, it has some of the elements of a care plan (goals, interventions, execution and evaluation). what is different is that you actually lay out how 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.

what is great today about patient teaching is that there is so much consumer teaching on the internet. you should be able to find just about anything you want to teach to a patient on the internet that you can download and use as a handout for your project. most large hospitals and insurance companies have these consumer teaching webpages.

for ob and newborns i recommend that you first try this site: medem http://www.medem.com/medlb/medlib_entry.cfm?sid=103af635-c640-11d4-8c0100508bf1c1f1&site_name=medem