Teach-Back Method Of Patient-Family Teaching

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Patient-family teaching is a part of care provided by nursing staff that makes nursing care so holistic. In teaching patients, the use of the teach-back method has shown to be effective in increasing the quality of the education provided, as well as ensuring that the patient understands the plan of care prior to the closure of the education. The use of the teach-back method of ensures the care is centered around the patient, and allows for a higher quality of education provided by the nurse or healthcare provider. Evidence-based practice regarding the implementation of the teach-back method during patient teaching is shown to engage the patient in the process. The intervention discussed in the article read prior to implementing the teach-back …show more content…
In regards to using the evidence-based practice supporting the teach-back method, I did an adequate job in providing plenty of opportunities for assessing the patient’s knowledge of the information included in the teaching. Following the creation of my teaching plan, I felt comfortable in how I was going to pursue in my teaching, but the follow-through of my plan is where I struggled. I felt that an area in which I struggled during the patient teaching was the organization, during my plan I had planned to follow the order of the book, but I still ended up finding myself jumping around a lot in my thought process. In implementing a teaching plan next time, I need to talk through my plan, not just think about the general flow of the plan. Barriers in the implementation of my patient teaching included this being my first time teaching a patient on a topic as a whole; in time, I hope that the flow of teaching becomes easier. A barrier for the patient in his learning the topic was that he had a very busy day filled with a lot of patient education, so he was overwhelmed with a lot of information. Despite having a lot of patient teaching throughout the day, he was still alert and active in trying to learn and understand the topic of anticoagulant …show more content…
My goal as a developing nurse and educator is to ensure that the patient is the center of my teaching and that they understand the information prior to concluding the patient teaching. Meeting this goal is important as an educator, because it is important that the nurse is able to ensure that the patient is comfortable in their care prior to being discharged. Following the education on anti-coagulant therapy, the patient was able to highlight the key points of the teaching and felt comfortable in his understanding of his anticoagulant therapy, so I felt that my goal as a nurse and educator was met. The evidence described stated that the use of the teach-back method increases the patient’s engagement in the teaching. The evidence also discussed the use of four separate stages, in order to apply these stages, I first assessed where the patient’s baseline knowledge of anticoagulant therapy was, I then applied the use of the four stages, teaching, assessing understanding, clarifying, and then patient gaining understanding of the topic presented. In this process, I found that my ability to find where to question him worked well, because I was able to identify the key points that I needed the patient to understand. During my patient teaching session, the flow of my teaching was the area that did not work well. As stated