Teaching Plan 1 Running head: TEACHING PLAN FOR MEDICATION SAFETY Teaching Plan for psychiatric care: Medication Safety Teaching Plan (TP) Format Teaching Plan 2 Teaching Need: Patients participating are males of various ethnicities, cultures, cognition, and education levels, and range from ages 18 and older. It is important for patients to be able to identify their medications to avoid medication errors. Knowing their medication can promote medication compliance. Teaching plan will be given in both English and Spanish if necessary. Upon completion of teaching plan, patients will obtain the information needed for medication safety. Rationale for Teaching: (What made you decide that this needs to be taught?) Educate patients on importance of knowing their medication by name, description, dosage, and frequency. Patients should feel comfortable reporting any side effects. Medication knowledge can help patients maintain medication compliance during stay at Mesilla Valley Psychiatric Center and at home. Goal of the Teaching Session: The goal of this teaching session is for patients to understand importance of knowing their medication to avoid medication errors. Patients should be able to recognize side effects. Measurable Objectives (Expected Outcomes): 1. The patients will verbalize why it is important to know their medications. (cognitive) 2. The patients will verbalize different way on recognizing their medications (cognitive) 3. The patients will verbalize importance of reporting side effects. (cognitive) Content Outline: 1) Introduction 2) Purpose for teaching a) Educate patients on recognizing medications b) Teach patients who to report side effects to 3) Content a) Interactive teaching at Mesilla valley psychiatric center by asking patients to state ways to identify their medications b) Summarize patients’ responses c) Ask patients to state why knowing their medication is important d) Summarize patients’ responses e) Teach patients to learn about their medications by asking nurse to state the name and dosage of the medication before administering, patients should look at shape and color of medication, and patients should ask nurse the frequency of medication f) Inform patients they can request a medication list from the nurse to keep with them g) Interactive teaching asks patients to state side effects that they have experienced and who they reported it to Teaching Plan for psychiatric care:

h) Educate patients to report side effects to nurse or physicians 4) Conclusion a) Have patients review ways to recognize their medications b) Have patient who they can report side effects to Teaching Plan 3 c) Patients may ask questions about any information they did not understand Teaching Strategies (Methods and Materials): As patients are oriented times three the teaching will be done in a group session, with a calm and quiet environment. Teaching will be done by verbal instruction in patients preferred languages. Teaching plan will consist of patient’s interactions to determine what information regarding medication safety patients are already aware of. Learner Activities: Patients may ask questions to better understand information. Upon completion of teaching plan patients will be expected to verbalize information provided. If teaching plan is unsuccessful, information will be given again. Self -evaluation: NURS 474 – Teaching Plan Guidelines You will prepare a Teaching Plan for a patient population of interest, utilizing the guidelines presented below. You will not actually implement the Teaching Plan as part of this class, but it is anticipated that this plan could be used in a patient teaching setting. Teaching Plan Develop a teaching plan for your topic. This includes the following: o Researching your topic o Patient learning objectives o Outline for the class o Resources (includes any articles used for the Teaching Plan) o Identification of appropriate teaching strategies o Instructional materials (handouts, equipment, powerpoint video, etc.) o Plan for evaluation (i.e., how you will know learning has occurred) Submit the Teaching Plan via the Assignments link. The Teaching Plan should follow the format on page 452 in Bastable (2014). In addition to the Teaching Plan in this table format, YOU MUST ALSO INCLUDE ALL HANDOUTS, POWERPOINTS, VIDEOS, PRETESTS, AND OTHER TEACHING MATERIALS THAT YOU WOULD SHARE WITH YOUR PATIENT! University of New Mexico College of Nursing NURS 474 – Teaching Plan Grading Sheet Criteria Learning Objectives Appropriately worded Relevant to the topic Points /20 Comments: Content Outline and Details Appropriate for the topic Appropriate level for the setting /20 Comments: Method of Instruction & Evaluation Appropriate for the content Evaluation appropriate for the domain /20 Comments: Resources Matches the content Appropriate for the method(s) Comments: Quality of submitted Teaching Plan Appropriate use of references APA format for citations/references Quality of writing, etc. Comments: /20 /20 Total Points Possible /100 …