Teaching in Nursing

Question

ASSIGNMENT / 

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NBBS1304 

TEACHING IN NURSING/

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION / ARAHAN KHUSUS

1. Answer in ENGLISH

2. Number of words : 2500 – 3000 words excluding references.

3. Submit your assignment ONCE only in a SINGLE file. 

4. Submit your assignment ONLINE. 

5. Submission date : 1 APRIL 

6. This assignment accounts for 40% of the total marks for the course.

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

OBJECTIVE:

This assignment is to evaluate learners’ capability and analytical skills in carrying outpatient education and recognizing the strategies for prevention of complications and treatment compliance in Diabetes Mellitus. 

SYNOPSIS:

Patient health education is a significant part of a nurse's job. Nurses are responsible for teaching patients about preventing and managing medical conditions. Education empowers patients to improve their health status. Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM), for instance, can actively participate in the management of this disease.  The therapeutic education playing an essential role in the optimization of knowledge, resources, and skills required to achieve targets of metabolic control, reduce the onset of acute and chronic complications, and preserve the quality of life.

QUESTION:

You are assigned to give health education to a middle-aged male patient, a taxi-driver, who is diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus (DM), about 5 years ago.  He is known for being non-compliance with the treatment and at the risk of developing a foot ulcer.

1. Describe the session that you are going to conduct by highlighting the significant health information required by the patient, and evaluating of patient learning.

2. Critically discuss the significance of this therapeutic education as a strategy for prevention of complications and treatment compliance in DM to preserve the quality of life.

[Total:  40 Marks]