NURS 474 – Teaching Plan Guidelines

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Patients participating are males of various ethnicities, cultures, cognition, and education levels, and range from ages 18 and older.  It is important for patients to be able to identify their medications to avoid medication errors.  Knowing their medication can promote medication compliance.  Teaching plan will be given in both English and Spanish if necessary.  Upon completion of teaching plan, patients will obtain the information needed for medication safety.

Educate patients on importance of knowing their medication by name, description, dosage, and frequency.  Patients should feel comfortable reporting any side effects.  Medication knowledge can help patients maintain medication compliance during stay at Mesilla Valley Psychiatric Center and at home.

The goal of this teaching session is for patients to understand importance of knowing their medication to avoid medication errors. Patients should be able to recognize side effects.

1. The patients will verbalize why it is important to know their medications. (cognitive)

2. The patients will verbalize different way on recognizing their medications (cognitive)

3. The patients will verbalize importance of reporting side effects. (cognitive)

1)      Introduction

2)      Purpose for teaching

a)      Educate patients on recognizing medications

b)      Teach patients who to report side effects to

3)      Content

a)      Interactive teaching at Mesilla valley psychiatric center by asking patients to state ways to identify their medications

b)      Summarize patients’ responses

c)      Ask patients to state why knowing their medication is important

d)     Summarize patients’ responses

e)      Teach patients to learn about their medications by asking nurse to state the name and dosage of the medication before administering, patients should look at shape and color of medication, and patients should ask nurse the frequency of medication

f)       Inform patients they can request a medication list from the nurse to keep with them

g)       Interactive teaching asks patients to state side effects that they have experienced and who they reported it to

h)      Educate patients to report side effects to nurse or physicians

4)      Conclusion

a)      Have patients review ways to recognize their medications

b)      Have patient who they can report side effects to

c)      Patients may ask questions about any information they did not understand

As patients are oriented times three the teaching will be done in a group session, with a calm and quiet environment.  Teaching will be done by verbal instruction in patients preferred languages.  Teaching plan will consist of patient’s interactions to determine what information regarding medication safety patients are already aware of.

Patients may ask questions to better understand information.  Upon completion of teaching plan patients will be expected to verbalize information provided.  If teaching plan is unsuccessful, information will be given again.