Coumadin Teaching Plan

For this community-teaching plan, I chose to discuss Coumadin therapy. I presented the secondary prevention and screening for vulnerable people. The demographic of the audience were all nurses. RN s and LPNs were educated on why we use Coumadin and why it is so important to understand the side effects of the medication and what risk factors to be aware of when administering the medication. When dispensing the medication to our patients, it is our responsibility as their nurse to be fully aware of what we are giving, making sure it is safe. Nurses are the people who see to the daily care of patients. Acting as a liaison between patients and doctors is a good way to assure safety because they trust us. A lot of times the patients do not know what questions to ask. After the group presentation I had two nurses relay what they learned too 2 patients who were on Coumadin. One nurse explained it at discharge and another nurse educated upon admission. Mentioned further in this paper is the summary of my teaching plan, my rationale for this topic, community responses to the teaching, areas of improvements and strengths of my presentation. The rationale for choosing this topic is because heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world. I know people are aware of the disease but I wanted to talk more
Next time, I will skip the quiz and maybe pass out a word search. The word “quiz” is never any fun. A word search, trivia game, or a fill in the blank exercise is a fun way to identify factors involved with Coumadin therapy and heart disease. The pens were a great way to incorporate a resource for a Coumadin clinic to the teaching project. The pen has a heart at the top and also has the phone number listed on it, if anyone should need more information on the medication. In my proposal, I estimated that my presentation would take 25 min. It took 35 minutes due to the amount of questions and discussions about the