• Patient Teaching into Practice
    • Patient Education
      • The nurse’s role in patient education
      • Patient / family education standards
      • The growing need for patient teaching
      • Interdisciplinary collaboration, patient education
      • Patient Education – What does the future hold?
    • Theoretical Basis of Patient Education
      • The Theoretical Basis of Patient Education – Introduction
      • The Health Belief Model
      • Patient Education: Self-efficacy
      • Related theories of Patient Education
      • Characteristics of adult learners
      • Behavioral, cognitive, humanist approaches
      • Patient Education: Learning readiness
    • The Process of Patient Education
      • Process of Patient Education: Introduction
      • Assessing learning needs
      • Developing learning objectives
      • Planning and implementing teaching
      • Evaluating teaching and learning
      • Developing an effective teaching style
      • Using adult learning principles
    • The Family and Patient Education
      • Family structure and style
      • Impact of illness on the family
      • Doing a family assessment
      • Strategies for teaching family members
      • Expanding needs of family caregivers
      • Developing a partnership with the family
    • Providing Age-Appropriate Patient Education
      • Providing Age-Appropriate Patient Education: Introduction
      • Teaching parents of infants
      • Teaching toddlers
      • Teaching pre-school children
      • Teaching school age children
      • Teaching adolescents
      • Teaching young adults
      • Teaching adults in midlife
      • Teaching older adults
    • Impact of Culture on Patient Education
      • Impact of Culture on Patient Education: Introduction
      • How culture influences health beliefs
      • Doing a cultural assessment
      • Cultural negotiation
      • Using interpreters in health care
      • Non-English speaking patients
      • A model of care for cultural competence
    • Adherence in Patient Education
      • Adherence in Patient Education: Introduction
      • Impact on treatment recommendations
      • Causes of non-adherence
      • The patient as a passive recipient of care
      • Effect of interpersonal skills on adherence
      • Interventions that can increase adherence
    • Helping Patients Who Have Low Literacy Skills
      • Helping Patients Who Have Low Literacy Skills: Introduction
      • Designing low literacy materials
    • Resources for Patient Education
      • Resources for Patient Education: Introduction
      • Selected Patient Education Resources

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Patient Education: Learning readiness

Learning readiness refers to how likely a person is to seek out knowledge and participate in behavior change. Individuals go through various stages in order to adopt or maintain a new health behavior. In the pre-contemplative stage, the person is generally not aware of a problem or not ready to act. In the contemplative stage, the person is thinking about a change, but is not yet taking action. In the action stage, the person adopts a behavior change and is practicing it. In the maintenance stage, the person retains the new behavior as a result of reinforcement. In the last stage, the behavior is part of the individual’s lifestyle and is no longer seen as a change that needs attention or reinforcement. Education interventions work best if they match a person’s state of readiness. For example, if a patient is not even aware of a health problem or its consequences, health teaching should be directed toward raising awareness of the need for behavior change before any other learning takes place.

Many factors influence a patient’s readiness to learn. Anything that affects physical or psychological comfort such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, or fear can affect a person’s ability and motivation to learn. Try to match teaching content to the patient’s current stage of readiness with the objective of moving the patient along to the next stage. A practical way of assessing a patient’s stage of learning readiness is to ask how he or she views the health care problem and what he or she see are actions that could be taken.

By understanding more about what motivates people to change behavior and how to apply theories to patient teaching situations, you can be more successful as a patient teacher.

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