Nursing Lesson Plan for Patient Discharge Education (NURBN 3018)

This nursing lesson plan outlines a 10-minute teaching session designed to educate a 55-year-old post-operative patient on how to perform daily dressing changes for their wound after discharge. The session incorporates auditory, visual, and interactive elements, including a welcome and introduction, a presentation of the dressing change process with a demonstration video, and a discussion of precautions and positive outcomes. The plan includes a detailed breakdown of the session's activities, time allocation, resources, and the educator's approach, with the goal of ensuring the patient understands the importance of proper wound care for promoting healing and preventing infection. The lesson concludes with an evaluation phase using a questionnaire to assess the patient's understanding of the material.

Running head: NURSING LESSON PLAN
DISCHARGE EDUCATION OF A PATIENT WITH A POST-OPERATIVE WOUND WHICH REQUIRES A DAILY
DRESSING CHANGE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Topic A daily dressing change related
education
Lesson objective To provide the patient with post-operative daily
dressing change education so that after his discharge
he can maintain hygiene and conduct daily dressing
change on his own
Session length 10 minutes Number
of
patients
1 Resources required  Computer /projector
 Internetconnection
 Butcherspaper
 Markerpens
patients
characteristic
s
(assessment
of patients)
The patient included in the educational
session recently got operated and hence
requires proper dressing change
education and care so that hygiene and
health of the patient could be maintained.
The patient is 55 year old and will be
discharged from the facility. He is
confident and hopeful that he will be able
to learn the wound management process.
He is calm and composed.
Approach and modality Sessions are mostly informative and engaging so that
patient could be provided with complete knowledge
Dressing change associated education and wound
management precautions that need to be taken.
Different modalities were used for the session, such as
visual, audio, PowerPoint presentations, linguistics,
activities and discussions.
Sequence Activity type Approach/Modality Time Notes /
rationale

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1 Welcome and
introduction
Educator nurse led,
auditory
2 min In this session, the educator nurse will welcome
the patient who are about to discharge from the
facility and will undertake the daily dressing
change on his own. Further, he will be introduced
to the educational session, where daily dressing
change process, the precautions they need to take
while changing his dressing for his future health
conditions would be conveyed (Peter et al., 2015).
2 Presenting the
process of
discharge and
the parameters
depending on
which
discharging is
decided.
Instructive -
auditory
2 mins The patient will be provided with the parameters
of proper dressing change, the process and the
technique of dressing the wound carefully
Further, with that importance of wound
management on daily basis and its importance in
his future health conditions will be conveyed to
them
3 Process of
discharge
A small video of
discharge will be
shown
2 mins He will be shown a small video of dressing a
post-operative wound and each of the technique
of proper dressing will be provided to him. Then
he will be asked to note down the important steps
with which he need to comply (Peter et al., 2015).

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4 Precautions
and prevention
In this step the
adverse effect of
ineffective dressing
will be conveyed to
the patient
1 mins This will help the patient to understand the
importance of proper dressing technique and the
way it helps to heal his post-operative wound.
Further, he will be able to understand the
precautions he need to take while dressing
change faster healing of his wounds (Guo, Deng &
Yang, 2014).
5 The positive
effects of
complying with
the post
operative
wound care
process after
Educator nurse led -
visual
1 min This will provide a complete detail of the
situations in which he need to change his wound
dressing to minimize the infection condition
(Guo, Deng & Yang, 2014).
6 Evaluation Educator nurse led
discussion
2 min For the evaluation process of the session, the
educator will ask the patient to fill a questionnaire
where closed ended questions will be asked to the
patient to understand his learning about dressing
change technique, the situations requiring
dressing change and the process (Peter et al.,
2015).

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References
Peter, D., Robinson, P., Jordan, M., Lawrence, S., Casey, K., & Salas-Lopez, D. (2015). Reducing readmissions using teach-back:
enhancing patient and family education. Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(1), 35-42.
Guo, C., Deng, H., & Yang, J. (2015). Effect of virtual reality distraction on pain among patients with hand injury undergoing dressing
change. Journal of clinical nursing, 24(1-2), 115-120.