Module 4 question#2
In a provider patient relationship frequently a Pedagogical learning relationship occurs where the patient assumes the passive role and the provider is the transmitter of knowledge. As a Nurse Practitioner I need to be careful in my teaching so that my patients are not assuming a passive role, but are actively engaged in a two way learning process. Learning theories and learning needs within my sub specialty as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is two fold. In pediatrics you are initially teaching parents about the care of their child, yet at this same time you are incorporating learning theories and learning needs of infants and children and teaching parents how to be developmentally appropriately with their child. Toilet training is a good example of how you are teaching parents about their child’s developmental readiness and learning expectations of the child. Therefore an interactive CD-ROM might first engage the parents in a discussion about how to recognize physiological and cognitive signs of toilet training readiness in their child and then a step by step approach about how 2 and 3 year olds learn. This CD could also have an age appropriate story like presentation about another child’s experiences of learning to use the potty for the child learner.