Teaching Experience

TOPIC: POST PARTUM DEPRESSION

1. Purpose: To document and evaluate teaching skills necessary to provide teaching to an
individual client with a demonstrated need. With the completion of this assignment the student
will be able to achieve the following objectives.
a. Demonstrate ability to thoroughly assess the learning styles of an individual or family
using given developmental or cultural models.
b. Demonstrate ability to anticipate learning needs based on developmental or cultural
assessments.
c. Identify and utilize teaching/learning principles to facilitate achievement of learning
goals and outcomes.
d. Select and prioritize learning strategies based on the developmental or cultural
assessment to achieve learning goals and outcomes.
e. Support rationales for teaching plan using teaching and learning theories from required
readings with references
2. Nursing Competencies:
a. Assessing and identifying developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors affecting a
client.
b. Providing evidence-based health information and teaching based on developmental,
cultural, and socioeconomic factors affecting a client or family
c. Integrating teaching/learning activities into client interactions based on developmental,
cultural, and socioeconomic factors affecting a client or family.
d. Incorporating health promotion and teaching into the plan of care based on
developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors affecting a family or client.
3. Plan: submitted to the clinical instructor during the teaching experience. Your clinical
instructor must approve the topic.
a. Develop nursing diagnosis (NANDA)
b. Develop two (2) learning objectives
c. State methodology (teaching methods)
d. Provide and utilize teaching aids
e. State needed resources
4. This write-up should be 2-3 pages to follow the Teaching Experience Rubric.
5. Suggested topics for Teaching Plan:
a. Mother’s with infants who have hyperbilirubinemia
b. Maternal and neonatal infection
c. Care of the Mother and Infant with Substance Abuse Problems
d. Immunization schedule for the newborn
e. Newborn care

f. Post op cesarean section care
g. Post vaginal delivery care
h. Breastfeeding