Education is I believe the number one most important thing we do as nurses. Whether we work on a medical floor, home care nurse or psychiatric nurse which is what I do. I believe it is the best "medicine" we can give our pts. Knowledge is power. The delievery of education is important as well. We must remain humble and allow our patients to be heard as well. I work on a 33 bed acute psychiatric unit where there is lots of education going on. We educate on diagnosis, medications, healthy lifestyles, medical technology just to name a few. To not educate our patients is doing them is not truly treating the whole patient. We use many forms of education on our unit. handouts, skill groups, video presentations, the tv has a hospital education channel as well. Social workers are also on our floor daily to help and educate our patients. I use apps that help me with medications and labs. We use our computer to look up a mirad of different medical subjects.
As nurses and soon to be APRN's education and knowledge will becom even more important and I plan to use every resource available to me in order to better educate myself and my patients.
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ReplyDeleteYou make very good points, yes, the teaching role in nursing is very important, it is in everything we do. I must say I was tickled when I was the title of your was "LINK", straight to the point, nice job!