Healthcare Assignment 2022

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Healthcare
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
Learning theories can be described as the lifelong, dynamic process with the help of
which an individual acquire new knowledge, skills along with alternating their thoughts, attitude,
feelings as well as actions, Learning helps an individual when it comes to adapting to demands
and changing circumstances. The learning theories are highly crucial in healthcare be it for the
heath care service users and their family who are grappling with ways of improving their health
along with adjusting to their medical condition or for students who acquires the information s
well as skills necessary to become a nurse or for nurses who are devising more effective
approaches for treating as well as educating patients. In the following paragraphs detailed
discussion on two of the healthcare learning theories, the social Cognitive theory and the self
determination theory will be discussed. Critical discussion of the two mentioned theory in
relation to the education provided by me currently along with my current role in providing heath
education will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Discussion
Analysis of the education I provide in relation to the theories
Currently I am working as an accredited pharmacist in the community. My current roles include
dispensing medication, counselling patient, ensure drug safety and reviewing medication.
I currently work as a community and accredited pharmacist providing medications
review, patient counselling and health education. In my clinical role, I see a lot of people with
diabetes and some of them their diabetes are not well controlled. Most of those people need
health education (more common with new diagnosis) and self- empowerment to take care of their
health. Being a member of multidisciplinary team give me a good opportunity to ensure drug

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safety and help people to achieve their targets. For example, one client was taking high dose of
metformin and I told him that this dose is high and can affect your kidney, then I found out that
he only has one kidney, so I had to call his doctor and asked him to reduce the dose.
Currently in order to educate my clients about the effectiveness of taking appropriate
medication within the stipulated time, I chiefly consider the Social Cognitive as well as the self
determinant theory. The social cognitive theory was theorized by Albert Bandura. According to
the theory, people gains learning from one another via imitation, observation as well as
modelling. The mentioned theory explains human behaviour on the basis of cognitive,
behavioural as well as environmental influences. The necessary conditions for effecting
modelling include attention, processing, memory storage as well as action. The attention can be
defined as the process of selecting a process on which it is important to concentrate. Here the
object can be a physical one as well as an abstract one. In order to ensure effective attention, it is
highly crucial for the educators to make information visible while it requires attending to avoid
cluttering the interference with a vast amount of information. The next step that is processing
includes capturing the information from the environment and processing the same. This enables
the individual to perceive entities and objects of on the word. The received data is then stored in
the brain as memory. This in turn helps people to recall as well as recognize entities along with
determining appropriate action.
The chief reason behind practicing the social cognitive theory while conducting
counselling of the patients is that implementation of this theory helps to provide social support
with the help of instilling expectations, self-efficacy, and using observational learning and other
reinforcements to achieve behaviour change. Incorporating this theory enhances the belief of the
patient that he or she possess control over and is able to execute the behaviour. It also helps the

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patients to determine the outcomes of the behaviours. According to Braungart, Braungart &
Gramet, (2017), the Social Cognitive theory based healthcare campaigns are primary
implemented in campaigns that are used in sill building exercise for increasing independence as
well as developing healthy behaviour amongst the participants.
Working as an accredited pharmacist gives me a good opportunity to give formal and
informal health education for many people with chronic condition such as diabetes or asthma. I
follow formal teaching method when educating people on how to use blood glucose monitor or
asthma inhaler with a spacer. Informal method for example when we give education about
medications, how they are working, direction of use and what the possible side effects (Dennick,
2012). The aim of the education is to help people to manage their health condition in a proper
way, correct any wrong information and minimise any future complications. Education can
happen inside the pharmacy or at the person house.
Another theory that I consider while educating my clients about healthcare includes the
self determination theory. The self determination theory can be defined as a macro theory of
human motivation along with the personality that concerns the inherent growth tendencies of
people as well as the innate psychological needs (Fitzpatrick, 2014). This theory is concerned
with the motivation behind choices by people without external influence as well as interference
(Murray et al., 2015). It focuses on the degree to which the behaviour of an individual is self
motivated as well as self determined. In order to deal with patient who have lost their hope of
getting cured, are have stated feeling less in control of their own behaviour, I provide
unexpected positive encouragement as well as feedback. In my personal experience, I have
noticed that providing the same results in increment in intrinsic motivation and as a result, the
performance of the individual. The theory is chiefly composed of two key assumptions. The two