Blog July 3, 2011 Module 4

1. What sort of teaching is done in your professional role?

The question would be what sort of teaching isn’t done in my professional role. Nurses and people who are drawn into nursing are automatic teachers. During school we teach each other, we’ve probably taught our families, or children. In our profession we educate patients on a continuum. We teach them how to dress, eat, or walk and transfer from place to place if necessary. Particularly for those who have suffered a physical event that prevents them from meeting their activities of daily living. We teach diet, exercise, medications, and how to be healthy. As a nurse practitioner we teach people how to live, cope and make decisions to change their lives for the better. Hopefully we guide people toward self-discovery.

I can’t think of any health care provider that does not teach someone something during their professional career. Some of us become educators at universities, or hospitals, and even public health clinics or fairs. In return many of us are taught something by our patients. We learn and share daily in all walks of our lives. On many occasion we even teach doctors. 
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