Patient Education

I am going to put the scoring guide at the end of the instructions. I need to score in the “basic” section and can’t have any in the “non-performance” section.

• Create a one-page patient education tool that explains usage of a medication and factors that can affect outcomes. Then, write 2–3 pages in which you explain how the tool promotes patient safety and quality outcomes, and adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence.By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
  • Competency 1: Apply practice guidelines and standards of evidence-based practice related to pharmacology for safe and effective nursing practice.
    • Explain the appropriate use of a medication.
    • Explain how a patient education tool promotes patient safety related to pharmacology.
  • Competency 2: Explain the relationship between quality patient outcomes, patient safety, and the appropriate use of pharmacology and psychopharmacology.
    • Identify specific factors that may affect the efficacy of a medication.
    • Describe possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication.
    • Explain correct handling, storage, and disposal of a medication.
  • Competency 3: Apply the principles and practices of cultural competence with regard to pharmacological interventions.
    • Explain how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence.
  • Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
    • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
    • Correctly format paper, citations, and references using current APA style.

• Context

  Do any of these sound familiar?

  • “I felt better right away, so I did not think I had to take the rest of the medicine.”
  • “Every time I took it, I threw up, so I just did not take it anymore.”
  • “I lost my health insurance a couple of months ago and cannot afford my medication all the time. I take it when I can afford to buy it. This is better than nothing, right?”

  
  

• Questions to Consider

  To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

  • How do the rights of patient medication affect the ability of a nurse to make sure a patient receives medication that is ordered in a safe, effective manner?
  • What types of communication tools, such as the Pyxis machine, facilitate effective communication and reduce or eliminate medication errors?

• Internet Resources

  • The Joint Commission. (2015). 2015 National Patient Safety Goals. Retrieved from http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_informati…
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (2015). MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program. Retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/
  • Institute for Safe Medication Practices. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://ismp.org/

• Assessment Instructions

  Imagine your supervisor has asked you to develop a patient education tool for new medication starts in your current area of practice. This tool needs to provide important information to the patient, yet be concise enough to require no more than one page.

  Preparation

  Review the suggested list of possible topics in Part 1 of the Requirements and then search the Capella library and the Internet for supporting resources. You will need to provide support for the information you choose to include in the patient education tool.

  Requirements

  Complete both Part 1 and Part 2 of this assessment. You may submit both parts in one document or submit them as separate documents. Be sure you complete both parts!Submit a total of 4–5 pages. Write no more than one page for Part 1. Write 2–3 pages, plus a separate reference page, for Part 2.

  Part 1: Patient Education Tool

  Complete the following:

  1. Choose one of the following topics as the basis for your patient education tool:
     • Antibiotics (Amoxil/Amoxicillin) for pediatric ear infections.
     • Statin therapy (Zocor/Simvastatin) for a newly diagnosed patient with hypercholesterolemia.
     • Antihypertensive (ACE inhibitors/Lisinopril/Zestril) for a patient who was discovered to have hypertension at a health screening at work.
     • Drugs for treating gastric acidity (Proton pump inhibitors/antacids/H2 blockers) for a patient complaining of chronic indigestion and heartburn.
     • Ear drops or eye drops (or both) for an elderly patient.
     • Any newly released medication for a patient in your area of practice. This might be a new drug for diabetes, hypertension, or arthritis or a new antibiotic.
  2. Include the following in your patient education tool:
     • Explain appropriate use of the medication.
     • Identify specific factors (age, access, culture, and so on) that may affect the efficacy of the medication.
     • Describe possible chemical interactions, side effects, or other negative reactions patients need to be aware of.
     • Explain correct handling, storage, and disposal of the medication.
     • Include any other information you feel would be beneficial and promote patient safety and quality outcomes.

  You may format Part 1, the patient education tool, any way you wish, but be sure it is logical and understandable by the typical patient who would use it. Feel free to include pictures or diagrams to reinforce the information.

  Part 2: Evidence-Based Practice

  Provide evidence for the information you included in the patient education tool:

  • Explain how the information in the patient education tool promotes patient safety and quality outcomes.
  • Explain how the patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence. In other words, is the tool appropriate for all cultures, genders, ages, et cetera; or could it be easily adapted for specific needs?

  Format Part 2 according to APA guidelines. This is not a document you would provide to a patient but, for this assessment, it will provide faculty with the academic and professional principles necessary to evaluate your work.

  Additional Requirements

  • At least 2 current scholarly or professional resources.
  • For Part 2 only:
    • Use Times New Roman font, 12 point, double-spaced font.

  Patient Education Scoring Guide

• CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
  Explain the appropriate use of a medication.	Does not explain the appropriate use of a medication.	Explains the use of a medication, but the explanation is inaccurate or not appropriate for the medication.	Explains the appropriate use of a medication.	Explains the appropriate use of a medication and the importance of following the instructions in terms of quality patient outcomes.
  Identify specific factors that may affect the efficacy of a medication.	Does not identify specific factors that may affect the efficacy of a medication.	Lists factors that may affect a medication, but the list is incomplete or does not relate to the efficacy of the medication.	Identifies specific factors that may affect the efficacy of a medication.	Explains how specific factors may affect the efficacy of a medication.
  Describe possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication.	Does not describe possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication.	Lists possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication.	Describes possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication.	Describes possible chemical reactions, side effects, or other negative reactions a patient may experience from a medication and explains the actions a patient should take.
  Explain correct handling, storage, and disposal of a medication.	Does not explain correct handling, storage, and disposal of a medication.	Explains handling, storage, and disposal of a medication, but the explanation is inaccurate or incomplete.	Explains correct handling, storage, and disposal of a medication.	Explains correct handling, storage, and disposal of a medication and includes a brief rationale of why these instructions are important.
  Explain how a patient education tool promotes patient safety related to pharmacology.	Does not explain how a patient education tool promotes patient safety related to pharmacology.	Explains the use of a patient education tool but does not associate the tool with patient safety.	Explains how a patient education tool promotes patient safety related to pharmacology.	Explains how a patient education tool promotes patient safety related to pharmacology and how the tool benefits both patients and nurses.
  Explain how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence.	Does not explain how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence.	Explains how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence, but the explanation is missing key elements.	Explains how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence.	Explains how a patient education tool adheres to the principles and practices of cultural competence, including differences of gender and age, and describes how the tool could be modified for other individual differences.
  Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write content clearly, logically, or with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.	Writes content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
  Correctly format paper, citations, and references using current APA style.	Does not correctly format paper, citations, and references using current APA style.	Uses current APA to format paper, citations, and references but with numerous errors.	Correctly formats paper, citations, and references using current APA style with few errors.	Correctly formats paper, citations, and references with no errors.

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