PowerPoint presentation – no more than 30 minutes based on the Teaching Work Plan and present the information to your community ( PRESENTATION FOR CAREGIVERS IN A DAY CARE) TEACHING WORK PLAN ATTACHED

Planning and Topic

Directions: Develop an educational series proposal for your community using one of the following four topics:

1. Bioterrorism/Disaster

2. Environmental Issues

3. Primary Prevention/Health Promotion

4. Secondary Prevention/Screenings for a Vulnerable Population

Planning Before Teaching:

Identification of Focus for Community Teaching (Topic Selection): Passive smoking refers to involuntary inhalation of smoke coming from a nearby smoker. Thus, a passive smoker is any person who unwillingly inhales smoke from another primary smoker. Although indirectly inhaled, this smoke has negative implication on health. Adults and older children may be capable of moving further from a smoker thereby reducing the inhalation. However, infants, due to their immobility and unawares, they cannot move away from smoking caregivers. Therefore, infants are left to struggle with the toxic smoke. Following the growing concerns about the effects of smoking on the health of firsthand and secondhand smokers, it is crucial that the entire conversation about effects of passive smoking on children is held. This topic is therefore important in creating awareness about such effects on these vulnerable group of persons. The topic also builds on the general idea of health promotion of infants. Furthermore, infants have rights albeit they cannot defend themselves. The topic can therefore be seen as an effort to advocate for the rights of infants to clean and unpolluted air.

Epidemiological Rationale for Topic (Statistics Related to Topic): According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), passive smoking has adverse effects on the health of victims. Yet, when the victims are infants whose physiological processes are still I the early development stages, these effects become even more worrying. CDC explains that passive smoke is made up of the burning parts of cigarettes and the exhaled smoke from smokers. This smoke contains at least seven thousand (7,000) chemicals some of which are not only toxic, but also cancerous. Over 2.5 million adults have reportedly died from conditions and diseases passed or created as a result of passive smoking (Schroeder & Koh, 2014). Passive smoke has life-threatening health implications for infants and children. For example, many children have been diagnosed with various respiratory infections and ear infections. Severe cases have resulted in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and asthma attacks (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2014).

Other worrying statistics show that passive smoking is responsible for over 34,000 annual deaths in the United States (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2014b). Further, CDC explains that SIDS, which is caused to a great extent by passive smoke, is a leading cause of mortality in healthy infants. SIDS death are usually sudden and unexplained, and the risk factors are increased by passive smoke. In addition, research has shown that exposure to the chemicals in passive smoke interferes with infants’ brains and how they regulate breathing (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2014b). Smoking as well as exposure to passive smoke during pregnancy affects the health of the baby, and research shows that it actually increases the risk of SIDS. The health implication of passive smoke increase with the period of exposure. This means that infants are at a greater risk because they are not able to protect themselves by reducing exposure time.

Teaching Plan Criteria

Your teaching plan will be graded based on its effectiveness and relevance to the population selected. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

Nursing Diagnosis: There is a deficit of information regarding the effects of passive smoke on health

Readiness for Learning: Identify the factors that would indicate the readiness to learn for the target aggregate. Include emotional and experiential readiness to learn.

Emotional readiness, defined as depiction of some level of effort put into the learning process, can be assessed by looking at the level of motivation. Generally, motivation is high if the audience thinks the information being conveyed is not only relevant to their conditions, but also important. One method of assessing motivation is to allow the audience to give their feedback concerning how they feel about the topic. Experimental readiness are factors that impact the ability of the audience to learn. Things to assess include audience’s previous skills and knowledge in the topic, health beliefs, language, preferred learning style, intellectual capacity, and physical capacity, i.e. their population.

Learning Theory to Be Utilized: Explain how the theory will be applied.

For this lesion, the show-me teaching style is appropriate. The style will be applied by first teaching and providing knowledge after which the audience will be asked to demonstrate what they have understood by answering questions and explaining topical questions. The teacher will then use the responses to determine how much has been internalized. If the audience exhibit difficulties in explaining concepts, it would mean that they did not understand. In this case, teaching will be repeated in a modified manner.

Goal: Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) objective(s) utilized as the goal for the teaching. Include the appropriate objective number and rationale for using the selected HP2020 objective (use at least one objective from one of the 24 focus areas). If an HP2020 objective does not support your teaching, explain how your teaching applies to one of the two overarching HP2020 goals.

The selected objective is TU-11.1: Reduce the level of exposure to passive smoke among infants.

How Does This HP2020 Objective Relate to Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives?

The objective is related to Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives as it aims at improving the health of infants, a vulnerable group. This will in turn increase disease prevention and national security.

Develop Behavioral Objectives (Including Domains), Content, and Strategies/Methods:

Creativity: How was creativity applied in the teaching methods/strategies?

Teaching begun with interesting stories about smoking and then scaled up slowly to include the impacts of smoking on infants. The teaching was also done in a serene environment with interesting aids.

Planned Evaluation of Objectives (Outcome Evaluation): Describe what you will measure for each objective and how.

1.

Attendance of the session by caregivers

2.

The audience will demonstrate understanding by verbalizing some of the concepts

3.

Audience will ask appropriate questions to demonstrate understanding

4.

The teacher to contain the session time to 30-45 minutes

Planned Evaluation of Goal: Describe how and when you could evaluate the overall effectiveness of your teaching plan.

Evaluation will be done continuously by asking questions and determining the willingness of the audience to apply the knowledge.

Planned Evaluation of Lesson and Teacher (Process Evaluation):

The audience should be honest about how they feel considering the topic. They should at least agree on some ways of preventing exposure of passive smoke to infants.

Barriers: What are potential barriers that may arise during teaching and how will those be handled?

Low turnout may be a barrier. However, the teacher should use his/her skills to win the hearts of the few who turnout and make them elements of change in the society.

Therapeutic Communication

4.2 Communicate therapeutically with patients.

How will you begin your presentation and capture the interest of your audience? Describe the type of activity will you use with your audience to exhibit active listening? Describe how you applied active listening in tailoring your presentation to your audience? How will you conclude your presentation? What nonverbal communication techniques will you employ?

The presentation will begin with an interesting video of passive smoking on projection to catch the attention of the audience. Active listening will be assessed by asking questions every once in a while. In order to maintain active listening, questions will be asked randomly to the audience. Nonverbal skills include eye contact, body movements, and facial expression to demonstrate the seriousness of the topic.

References

Schroeder, S. A., & Koh, H. K. (2014). Tobacco control 50 years after the 1964 surgeon general’s report. JAMA, 311(2), 141-143.

US Department of Health and Human Services. (2014a). Let's make the next generation tobacco-free: your guide to the 50th anniversary Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health.

US Department of Health and Human Services. (2014b). The health consequences of smoking—50 years of progress: a report of the Surgeon General.