Knowledge Deficit

Published on Saturday March 10th , 2007

Knowledge Deficit

(_)Actual (_) Potential

**Related To:**
*[Check those that apply]*
(_) New diagnosis:_____________________________ (_) Language differences:________________________ (_) Hospitalization (_) Diagnostic test:_____________________________ (_) Surgical procedure:__________________________ (_) Medications:_______________________________ (_) Pregnancy (_) Other:_____________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________

**As evidenced by:**
*[Check those that apply]*
Major: (Must be present)	(_) Verbalizes a deficiency in knowledge or skill. (_) Requests information. (_) Expresses and inaccurate perception of health status. (_) Does not correctly perform a desired or prescribed health behavior.
Minor: (May be present)	(_) Lack of integration of treatment plans into daily activities. (_) Exhibits or expresses psychological alteration, (anxiety, depression) resulting from misinformation or lack of information.

Date &
Sign.

Plan and Outcome
[Check those that apply]

Target
Date:

Nursing Interventions
[Check those that apply]

Date
Achieved:

The patient will:

(_) Describe disease process, causes, factors contributing to symptoms.

(_) Describe procedure(s) for disease or symptom control.

(_) Identify needed alterations in lifestyle.

(_) Other:

(_) Assess patient's readiness to learn by assessing emotional respose to illness:

Acceptance
Anger
Anxiety
Denial
Depression
Other:

(_) Allow person to work through and express intense emotions prior to teaching.

(_) Examine patient's health beliefs:
________________________
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(_) Assess patient's desire to learn.

(_) Assess preferred learning mode:

Auditory
Group
One to one
Visual
Other:

(_) Assess literacy level.

(_) Provide health teaching and referrals: ___________________
________________________
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(_) Plan and share necessity of learning outcomes with patient - s/o.

(_) Evaluate patient - s/o behaviors as evidence that learning outcomes have been achieved:
________________________
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________________________

(_) Other:________________
________________________
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Patient/Significant other signature

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RN signature

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