What sort of teaching is done in your professional role?
I am required to not only teach patients, but I also help train my coworkers in everything from wound care dressings to Medicare paperwork.
I work most of the time in our agency's office organizing patient intake, writing and taking orders, receiving lab results, communicating with the many doctors and medical staff that share our mutual patients, and auditing charts. During my office time, I am also expected to help the field staff understand which paperwork is needed for their patients, and how to correctly fill in that paperwork. It is important that I not only teach my coworkers what they need, but how to recognize and/or anticipate that need for the next time.
I am also available to ride with our nurses in order to help them do a procedure that they might be unsure of, and need some further instruction with.
Lastly. I am required as part of my nursing care to be constantly teaching my patients about their medications, treatments, illnesses, and their cable bill. :)
Whatever I am teaching, I am always on the lookout for new resources, like this one, provided by our informatics instructor.
Is there any nursing/health care provider role that does not involve teaching in some manner?
I highly doubt it. Maybe if you were taking care of a patient in a coma on a deserted island, and there was no one else there for you to teach. But then you could still teach yourself new things. No, I don't believe that there is a nursing role that does not involve teaching in some manner.
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