Question

• Case Study: Mr. D.W., 84 years old, suffers from high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, and beginning glaucoma. He falls at a church function and is taken by ambulance to the emergency room. Unfortunately, his daughter, who usually accompanies him to his primary care clinic, is working. He refuses to have the staff "bother her at the job." Mr. W. cannot tell the emergency room nurse what medications he is taking. He states that he takes a blue pill for his "high blood" in the morning, and two pink pills at dinner. He also says that he puts drops in his eyes every day. He nods his head when the emergency room staff tell him that his X-rays show no signs of a fracture, that he should consult his physician if a hematoma develops, elevate his left foot which is wrapped in an ace bandage, and apply ice packs for twenty four hours. He signs the discharge form and receives printed instructions for care of a sprained ankle. An elderly friend who has followed the ambulance from church and stayed in the waiting room helps him into her car and drives him home. Use Table 11-11 (Bastable, p. 498) to answer the following questions:

a. What traditional method of instruction (first five methods) would you choose for your patient, and why?

b. Which non-traditional method (second five methods) would you choose for your patient, and why?

Answer 1

Traditional method of instruction is a type of instruction in which the nurse is only the speaker . Five types of traditional methods are:-

- Lecture

- Discussion

- Role play

- Health talk

- Demonstration

These methods are used to make him understand about the medicines and other instructions by the help of audio visual method which will help the patient to understand easily .

The non traditional methods used are :-

- conference

- workshop

- symposium

- seminar

- panel discussion

These methods are not widely used to teach a patient . They provide detailed explanation about a particular disease or other condition . Basically it's for teaching purpose of professionals .

It is used by many hospitals on annual basis to give health awareness to the general public on a certain condition by organising seminars , symposium etc where the general public and health care people come together and do the discussion about types of treatment , surgeries , prevention methods etc.