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Elder Abuse Nursing Student - PDF

   

Added on  2020-10-22

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Elder abuse andreporting abuse
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Table of ContentsPART 1............................................................................................................................................1PART 2............................................................................................................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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PART 1The target audience is 1st year nursing students who belong to different culturalbackground. Therefore, it is necessary to teach them about elder abuse and how to report abuse.Furthermore, 1st year students are taken as it will support them to identify symptoms or signs ofabused elder people and understand their needs. Hence, they will be aware about different waysof abusing in elders and what protocols or procedures are to be followed for reporting. This willhelp in creating awareness among them about how they should handle patients and how toidentify their needs (Fang and Yan, 2018). Moreover, as students belong to different caste, creed,etc. thus they do not know about how elder are abused and overall procedure of its reporting. Thestudent possesses various characteristics as they deal with patients who have been abused.Hence, it will help them to understand elder needs and how it can be fulfilled. By learning about abuse and its reporting students will be able to gain knowledge andskills that what are different types of symptoms or signs of abuse, its impact on mental andphysical health of elder people, etc. Through this, students will be aware about protocols andprocedure to deal with elders and what procedures is to be followed in reporting. Therefore, itwill result in reduction of abuse cases and proper reporting of it. Learning theories for teaching Roberto, 2016 stated that for teaching the student about elder abuse and its reportingvarious learning theories can be used. The use of behaviourism theory can help to make nursesunderstand about observational learning aspects in which they can observe in abused elders.Nurses can learn from the behaviour of teacher thus knowledge can be demonstrated. From theknowledge perspective learning can be increased by using cognitive theories. As per this learningtheory brain based learning is vital for enhancing skills and efficiency in learning. For providingthe nurses more practical exposure to elder abuse symptoms constructivism learning theory isalso very helpful. With the help of this theory teacher can encourage nurses to construct newconcepts and theories on the basis of their practical experiences and gained knowledge. Learning stylesDong, 2015,referred that for enhancing the learning of nursing students’ teachers mustalso focus and consider the learning style of students so that teaching strategies can be improved.From nursing perspective reflective learning style is very helpful as it provides the continuouslearning. Similarly, the for nursing it is required that learners must be active instead of passive1
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