NR305 Health Assessment
Patient Teaching Plan For Medication Safety At Home.
To create a Patient Teaching Plan aimed at educating a specific patient population about a specific health topic. This plan will be used to develop a Visual Teaching Tool in a future assignment , recognize the influence that developmental stages have on physical, psycho social, cultural, and spiritual functioning. Identify teaching/learning needs from the health history of an individual.
Patient Teaching Plan
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Your Name: Date:
Purpose: The purpose of this Patient Teaching Project is to develop a patient teaching plan and create a visual teaching tool aimed at promoting health and preventing disease for a specified patient population.
Directions:
• This Teaching Plan is Part 1 of the Patient Teaching Project. You will use this Patient Teaching Plan to create a Visual Teaching Tool in Part 2 of this project.
Patient Teaching Plan
HEALTH TOPIC ANSWER
State the topic you have selected for your Teaching Project.
(Please select from the list provided in the Teaching Project guidelines located in Module 4.)
Describe in detail why this is an important topic for patient education. Use evidence from the textbook, lesson or an outside scholarly source to support your rationale.
POPULATION ANSWER
Describe, in detail, the characteristics of the population you are planning to teach with the Visual Teaching Tool.
BARRIERS ANSWER
What are some potential learning barriers for this population of learners?
(Barriers might be cultural, physical, educational, or environmental. Refer to the assigned article in the project guidelines for more information.)
Describe how you could develop your Visual Teaching Tool in a way that will address these potential barriers.
SETTING ANSWER
Where do you plan to utilize your Visual Teaching Tool?
(Examples: primary care clinic, health fair, school, etc…)
Will you be teaching one-on-one, in small groups, or to a large crowd?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES ANSWER
Write three specific learning objectives your visual teaching tool will address.
Example: At the end of this education, the learner will be able to list 3 benefits of regular physical activity. 1.
2.
3.
EVALUATION ANSWER
Write a paragraph describing how you could evaluate whether your visual teaching tool was successful and met the learning objectives. Consider the population’s abilities and the setting.
REFERENCES ANSWER
List any references used to create this Teaching Plan in APA format.
(Hanging indent not required.)
Remember to also use in-text citations within this document, when appropriate (Author, year).
Health Topic: Medication Safety at Home
Importance: Medication safety at home is critical to prevent adverse drug events, medication errors, and improve health outcomes. Evidence shows that many medication errors originate during administration in the home (Author, year). Educating patients on proper medication administration, storage, disposal, side effects monitoring, and more can improve compliance and reduce risks.
Population: Adults over age 65 living independently at home with multiple chronic conditions requiring complex medication regimens (more than 5 medications daily).
Barriers: Physical barriers like impaired vision or hearing, reduced mobility, or inability to open containers. Educational barriers like poor health literacy or cognitively impairment. Lack of social support at home. Difficulty affording medications.
To address barriers, teaching will be done verbally one-on-one using large print education sheets. Caregivers will be included. Tools like medication organizers, magnifiers, and audible alarms will be recommended. Financial assistance resources will be provided.
Setting: Education will occur one-on-one during an office visit at an outpatient primary care clinic.
Learning Objectives:
Correctly sort medications by time of day or purpose following education.
Identify and explain three high risk situations for medication errors in the home setting.
Demonstrate proper medication list updating and reconciliation practices at provider visits.
Evaluation: Patients will fill daily medication organizers correctly to assess learning objective #1. They will complete a written multiple choice quiz to assess objectives #2 and #3 at the end of the education. Effectiveness can also be evaluated through patient reports of errors or adverse events at follow up visits after starting new high risk medications.
