Patient Teaching
Patient Teaching
J. D. is a 3 yr old boy with West Syndrome, absence of the corpus callosum, and developmentally delayed with controlled spasms since 10/2012 until recently when J.D. presented to Miller Children’s emergency department with several episodes of spasm-like activity and vomiting up his keppra. Mom describes the episodes a 5-10 seconds in duration, with upward and outward jerking of his arms.
The learner, which will be the mother, speaks English as her first language, she has a hearing impairment condition but she can hear, the last grade level that she completed was 11th grade, and when in school she was in special needs classes. The mother is very talkative and clearly understands much of the conversations that we have together. She likes to see your lips when you talk and she likes when you look at her eyes.
With the diagnosis of a seizure disorder the mother needs to learn about the care for a child with seizures. Since the mother is hearing impaired and has special learning needs the best way to teach her is by facing her when speaking allowing her to see your lips, have an interpreter interpret what you are saying and provide lots of literature for the things that are being taught. The father who sees J.D. every other week needs to learn how to care for a child with seizures also but he has not been in the hospital to see J.D. yet, the father is expected to show up at the hospital so teaching will take place when the father and mother are both present.
When teaching the parents about seizure disorders, the first thing you want the parents to understand is that medication is not a cure for seizures. Seizure medication is not a cure to seizures but is more of a control mechanism
* Teach About Medications * Let the learners know that complying with the therapy prescribed for the patient can help prevent status epilepticus
* Do not miss any doses of medication. * You don’t want someone with seizure disorder to
J. D. is a 3 yr old boy with West Syndrome, absence of the corpus callosum, and developmentally delayed with controlled spasms since 10/2012 until recently when J.D. presented to Miller Children’s emergency department with several episodes of spasm-like activity and vomiting up his keppra. Mom describes the episodes a 5-10 seconds in duration, with upward and outward jerking of his arms.
The learner, which will be the mother, speaks English as her first language, she has a hearing impairment condition but she can hear, the last grade level that she completed was 11th grade, and when in school she was in special needs classes. The mother is very talkative and clearly understands much of the conversations that we have together. She likes to see your lips when you talk and she likes when you look at her eyes.
With the diagnosis of a seizure disorder the mother needs to learn about the care for a child with seizures. Since the mother is hearing impaired and has special learning needs the best way to teach her is by facing her when speaking allowing her to see your lips, have an interpreter interpret what you are saying and provide lots of literature for the things that are being taught. The father who sees J.D. every other week needs to learn how to care for a child with seizures also but he has not been in the hospital to see J.D. yet, the father is expected to show up at the hospital so teaching will take place when the father and mother are both present.
When teaching the parents about seizure disorders, the first thing you want the parents to understand is that medication is not a cure for seizures. Seizure medication is not a cure to seizures but is more of a control mechanism
* Teach About Medications * Let the learners know that complying with the therapy prescribed for the patient can help prevent status epilepticus
* Do not miss any doses of medication. * You don’t want someone with seizure disorder to