Aids for creating curriculum on teaching
Aids for creating curriculum on teaching
Use of self-learning packets, poster boards, inservices
There are many resources and tools available to help you create poster boards, self-study packets, and seminars to teach staff how to teach patients. Following is a list of some of those resources:
• A Guide to Educating Patients. This booklet covers assessing, planning, implementing, and documenting patient education and can be used as a curriculum guide for inservices on teaching staff how to teach patients. It is available for $2.25. For more information or to order, contact Krames Communications, 1100 Grundy Lane, San Bruno, CA 94066-3030. Telephone: (800) 995-5514 or (415) 742-0400. Fax: (415) 244-4568.
• Client Education: Theory and Practice. This book by Dorothy Babcock, RN, MS, C, and Mary Miller, RN, GNP, PhD, features an overview of learning principles with specific information on learning styles and communicating with children, adults, elderly, and people from different cultures. The cost is $34.00 with shipping and handling fees of $4.50 for orders of $1.00 to $49.95. For more information or to order, contact: Creative HealthCare Management, 614 E. Grant St., Minneapolis, MN 55404-1431. Telephone: (800) 264-3246 or (612) 339-7955. Fax: (612) 339-2065. E-mail: [email protected].
• How to Create and Promote Self-Learning Packets. This video explores the advantages and disadvantages of self-learning. It provides step-by-step guidelines to creating and promoting self-learning packets. The cost is $195.00 plus $7.50 for shipping and handling. For more information or to order, contact: Creative HealthCare Management, 614 E. Grant St., Minneapolis, MN 55404-1431. Telephone: (800) 264-3246 or (612) 339-7955. Fax: (612) 339-2065. E-mail: [email protected].
• "Patient Teaching." This video on patient teaching presents 10 teaching strategies for clinical nurses to use in an environment of increasing time constraints. The cost is $195.00 plus $7.50 for shipping and handling. For more information or to order, contact: Creative HealthCare Management, 614 E. Grant St., Minneapolis, MN 55404-1431. Telephone: (800) 264-3246 or (612) 339-7955. Fax: (612) 339-2065. E-mail: [email protected].
• Poster boards. For information on how to create poster board inservices that can travel from unit to unit, see story in June 1996 Patient Education Management, p. 66. The article is accompanied by an insert that outlines copy for a poster board on patient teaching. Back issues of PEM, when available, are $28.00 each. For more information, contact: American Health Consultants, P.O. Box 740059, Atlanta, GA 30374. Telephone: (800) 688-2421 or (404) 262-7436. Fax: (800) 284-3291.
• The Practice of Patient Education. This book written by Barbara Klug Redman, RN, PhD, covers skills for teaching patients and learning theories. The cost is $33.00 plus shipping and handling based on package weight. Shipping and handling fees begin at $3.00. For more information or to order, contact: Mosby, 11830 Westline Industrial Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146. Telephone: (800) 325-4177 or (314) 872-8370. Fax: (314) 432-1380.
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