title: Using a competency-based approach to patient education: achieving congruence among learning, teaching and evaluation.
abstract: Millions of Americans are living with, and managing, their chronic health problems. Patient education plays an essential role in promoting safe self-management practice. To ensure that patients attain the required abilities, patient education needs to be competency-based. When developing and applying a competency-based patient education lesson/program, each nurse must answer questions concerning essential competencies, optimal teaching methods, best method to evaluate patient achievement, and documentation of evidence. This article describes how the authors used these questions as a guide to achieve congruence among intended learning, instruction, and evaluation to design and implement a patient education program, Managing Heart Failure, at a local hospital.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Purdue University North Central, 1401 South US 421, Westville, IN 46391, USA. wmingsu@pnc.edu
authors.forename: Whei Ming
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Bobbi
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Herron
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Osisek
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States