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Subject: High Cholesterol |
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1. Topic-
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| Educate PA Students on how to help reduce high cholesterol among
patients. |
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2. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1. To successfully teach health care students about high cholesterol
2. Educate health care students about the dangers of high cholesterol
3. To effectively educate on how to prevent high cholesterol |
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3. Objectives-
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1. To increase awareness among health care students that elevated
blood cholesterol is a cause of CHD, and that reducing elevated blood
cholesterol levels will contribute to the reduction of CHD risk.
2. To improve the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health care
professionals to identify and intervene with patients who have elevated
blood cholesterol, and to provide guidelines regarding methods and
approaches to use in detection, treatment, and follow-up of patients.
3. To encourage health care students to consider an individual's blood
cholesterol level in relation to other CHD risk factors.
4. To increase the awareness and understanding of health care students
regarding the major role that diet plays in reducing elevated blood
cholesterol.
5. To increase the awareness and understanding of health care students
regarding the role of weight control and physical activity in the
management of high blood cholesterol.
6. To increase the knowledge of health care students about the appropriate
use of cholesterol lowering drugs.
7. To increase the proportion of health care students who diagnose
and treat patients with high blood cholesterol in accordance with
the best existing information (e.g., measuring blood cholesterol levels
at appropriate intervals, initiating treatment at appropriate levels
of blood cholesterol, and providing adequate counseling support to
patients).
8. To promote interdisciplinary collaborative efforts in the management
of patients with elevated blood cholesterol. Proper management of
this condition requires close cooperation among health professionals,
including physicians, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists.
9. To improve the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of students in
the health care regarding high blood cholesterol and its management.
10. To improve precision and accuracy in the measurement of blood
cholesterol levels and to promote standardized reporting of laboratory
results. |
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4. Materials and Aids-
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| National Cholesterol Education Program Material |
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5. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
Use icebreakers that create interest, "Wow, I did not know
that!" or "Really?"
In a group setting, I may use true/false statements, facts and myths
and multiple-choice trivia. For example, "Which of these foods contain
a hidden source of fat that can raise cholesterol levels? Steak, Salmon,
Bran muffin? – Visit the American Heart Association for trivia questions.
Ask questions that allow you to determine what is important to your
client. For example, "Why do you think people get high cholesterol?"
"What does having high cholesterol mean to you?" or "Tell me
more about…."
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B. Checking for understanding-
1. Connect what the client/learner already knows with new information
2. When I teach about foods with soluble fiber, I tell my audience
to visualize the consistency of oatmeal after it has been cooked to
illustrate the action of soluble fiber on dietary cholesterol.
3. When I teach about foods with cholesterol, I use FACE. If the food
started with a "face" then it has cholesterol – beef, chicken,
pork – they started with a face.
4. Connect learners with information they relate. When discussing
taking medications, I offer the following tips; "Some people
find that setting the alarm on their cell phones, remind them to take
their medication." "Save the name and dose of your medications
under ‘mediations�� in your cell phone contact list." |
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7. Evaluation-
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* Limit teaching objectives (1-3)
* Ask yourself, "What effects or outcome do I want for the learner?"
and most important, "What will the learner DO with the information?"
* Suppose you are teaching "Managing Cholesterol"
* What are "must include" vs. "nice to include" topics?
* Write one topic on a post-it note or index card.
* Place your post-it notes or cards in order of importance (most to
least important)
* Examine the topics. Feel free to move or remove topics
* Select the three most important topics
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