blooms taxonomy
Chronic disease has become a national concern in the health care system, especially with the elderly population. It has become very costly and will continue to raise costs since today’s technology assists in patients living much longer. According to Curtin and Lubkin (1995), “Chronic illness is the irreversible presence, accumulation, or latency of disease states or impairments that involve the total human environment for supportive care and self-care, maintenance of function, and prevention of further disability.” Some examples of chronic diseases would be diabetes, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s disease. Although patients cannot be cured of these diseases, they can be taught to manage the disease with changes in their lifestyle to have a more productive life.
A teaching method that has been successful in patient education for chronic diseases is Bloom’s Taxonomy. There are three domains of learning used to teach the patient and also the family that will be part of the patient’s care, which are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Patients are more successful with managing their care when they have family that is supportive in their plan of care also. Cognitive domain refers to how the patient and family learn. If used in a patient with diabetes, the patient must learn what the actual disease is. Teaching them how to use a glucose monitor and the normal sugar values of 70-110 allows them to demonstrate what they understand from what was learned. It is imperative to create a teaching plan for the patient that will manage their sugar levels such as a change in diet. Allowing the patient to create a low carb, low sugar diet shows they understand how to apply what was learned into lifestyle change. Patients must be taught and understand what to do with abnormal glucose readings. To relate low sugar levels with need to eat bread or drink juice, and high readings require the correct dosage of insulin. When evaluating if learning was successful, the patient will be
A teaching method that has been successful in patient education for chronic diseases is Bloom’s Taxonomy. There are three domains of learning used to teach the patient and also the family that will be part of the patient’s care, which are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Patients are more successful with managing their care when they have family that is supportive in their plan of care also. Cognitive domain refers to how the patient and family learn. If used in a patient with diabetes, the patient must learn what the actual disease is. Teaching them how to use a glucose monitor and the normal sugar values of 70-110 allows them to demonstrate what they understand from what was learned. It is imperative to create a teaching plan for the patient that will manage their sugar levels such as a change in diet. Allowing the patient to create a low carb, low sugar diet shows they understand how to apply what was learned into lifestyle change. Patients must be taught and understand what to do with abnormal glucose readings. To relate low sugar levels with need to eat bread or drink juice, and high readings require the correct dosage of insulin. When evaluating if learning was successful, the patient will be