Question

You are a staff nurse preceptor, and you find that the nurse orientee you are working with has difficulty understanding the idea of titrating drug dosages on the basis of physiologic data. A weakness in which type(s) of learning might be underlying this problem? In addressing this orientee's difficulty, what other information would you collect?

Answer 1

The nurse orientee have problem in learning and perceiving the information provided by the nurse preceptor.

By implication of the learning theories, the nurse orientee have a problem in cognitive social learning.

Other factors which might influence the nurse orientee’s learning include the environment and surroundings, previous education and skills of the nurse.