Utilizing critical reasoning and the nursing process, the student is expected to:
Teaching
Discuss the rationale for patient teaching, including its benefits and purposes
Describe the teaching-learning process including domains of learning and principles of effective teaching
Identify factors that affect patient learning
Identify strategies for effective teaching
Describe the components of health literacy
Identify nursing strategies that address inadequate health literacy
Family
Identify the major areas of family forms and factors influencing family forms
Identify and discuss the approaches to family-centered nursing care
Identify the attributes of healthy families
Describe assessing, planning and implementing family-centered care
Discuss interventions to assist family as caregivers
Critical Thinking
Identify behaviors demonstrating critical thinking characteristics/attitudes
Discuss how critical thinking is applied to clinical reasoning and judgment in nursing practice
Relate critical thinking to the steps of the nursing process
Examine the standards for critical thinking
Discuss strategies used to develop critical thinking skills
1. Review module objectives.
2. Learning Resources:
Harding, M. M., Kwong, J., Hagler, D., and Reinisch, C. (2023). Lewis’s Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (12th edition). Elsevier Inc.
Chapter 4 Patient and Caregiver Teaching, pp. 49-62
Potter, P. A., Perry, A. G., Stockert, P. A., Hall, A. M., & Ostendorf, W. R. (2025). Fundamentals of nursing (12th ed.). Elsevier.
Chapter 6 Health and Wellness, pp. 83-84 Impact of Illness on the Patient and Family
Chapter 10 Family Dynamics, pp. 131-144
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement pp. 210-225
Chapter 25 Patient Education, pp. 368-390
3. Complete Critical Thinking Exercises:
Coordinator of Care Student Learning Guide
4. Supplemental Learning:
See Bb
5. Review module objectives and check for knowledge gaps.
6. Go to the Evolve website and review the module content and practice questions..