Nursing Education Assignment: Constructivism Theory for Fluid Balance Chart Management

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Introduction
Education and training schedules are few important approaches through which,
reinforcement of additional knowledge regarding a process can be provided to the graduate
nurses or healthcare professionals. The training can be regarding the professional conduct or the
processes that are applied on patients to improve their health condition (Fosnot, 2013).
Therefore, Planning of a short educational activity with compliance to the established theory
should be done in healthcare settings so that the target population can be taught regarding the
process. In this assignment the peers in the clinical process will be educated about the knowledge
of the fluid balance charts and management tricks (Moons & De Backer, 2013). In this context,
the goals of the educational plan, background and justification of the approach, the details of the
activity and the visual resource will be incorporated in the assignment.
The goal
The goal of this educational planning for nursing professional will be making them
competent to the fluid balance charts that are used in healthcare facilities to track the fluid intake
of the patients. This education is important as due to advancement of machineries, everything has
become digital however in adverse situation knowledge of these strategies are important for
healthcare professionals. Therefore, the goal of this assignment will be utilizing the constructive
learning theory of learning and determine the reinforcement of these learnings within the nursing
students (Zamanzadeh et al., 2014). The target for the educator will be one week within which
the nurses will be made competent regarding the process.

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Background of the approach
The theory of constructivism is dependent on the relation between learner and the
educator and the level of their discussion regarding the process determines the understanding or
compliance to the process. According to Coulson et al., (2012), the theory of constructivism is
completely dependent on the learner and the level of compliance of the learner to the process
determines his or her understanding of the topic. Further, the duty of the educator is to provide
solution to the learner regarding the issues that prevent them to achieve complete knowledge
regarding the process. Apart from nursing discipline, other disciplines such as psychology,
sociology and lower level education system is also based upon the theory of constructivism. As
the concept is based on the experience of the learner and educator helps them, to understand the
topic more deeply, this theory can be applied in many aspects of modern education system.
Fosnot, (2013), provides a constructive example regarding the process according to which, it
becomes easier to learn a concept if it comes with proper understanding with experience.
Therefore, adults with proper experience regarding a process performs it without any mistake,
whereas children are unable to learn processes until they include those in their habits.
Rationale of using this theory
The theory deals with prior knowledge of the learner and deals with authentic and real
problems, this theory should be applied in the education of nursing professionals for teaching
them the fluid balance chart and its management. While going through their courses, they are
taught regarding fluid balance and its importance, hence, they have prior knowledge regarding
the concept (Oermann & Gaberman, 2016). Further, discussion with educator regarding the fluid
management using balance sheets manually will help them to develop their knowledge regarding
this important aspect of healthcare. Further, using the constructivism theory in the process, the