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HPE 540 BARRIERS TO TEACHING AND LEARNING LECTURE NOTES In this chapter, the authors explore many important factors that pertain to the nurse and health professional teaching roles. Effective teaching by the professional nurse at the bedside is an important factor that influences how a patient perceives their care. Barriers to teaching occur in many of today's busy healthcare settings. Many times, it is difficult for the nurse to implement bedside teaching including but not limited to; time constraints, lack of confidence to teach the client, sporadic documentation, and lack of skills and motivation. I think that nurse educators should always promote bedside teaching by encouraging the professional nurse to use time wisely and teach the patient whenever they have the time and ability. In fast - paced health care settings one must seek any opportunity to provide education to the patient which can be done in just a few minutes. According to Bastable, Gramet, Jacobs and Sopczyk (2011) "Health professionals must know how to adopt an abbreviated, efficient and effective approach to client and staff education by first adequately assessing the learner and then by using appropriate instructional methods and instructional tools at their disposal" (p. 15). At my workplace, nursing staff have access to a database of patient care plans and educational materials that correlate with patient's current admission diagnoses. The subject material can be easily printed and a hardcopy provided to the patient. In the classroom setting, the environment must be comfortable for the learner. There must be adequate classroom size for the audience, and it should be a quiet environment that eliminates distractions. Second, to ensure readiness to learn, the participant must be prepared to learn new subject data. It is important for educators to assure that materials are provided to the learner ahead of time. Third, with the advent of cell phone use, I learned recently to ask learners in classroom settings to turn off personal cell phones. Furthermore, the educator must employ a motivation to teach and make good use of all tools available such as Power Point presentations, hardcopy materials, and simulation methods. According to Bastable, Gramet, Jacobs, and Sopczyk (2017), some of the barriers that affect the teaching process are, lack of time, lack of educators' competence, administrators consider teaching as less priority, environmental barriers, absence of third party reimbursement, uncertainty about the effectiveness of the education, and lack of appropriate documentation. Lack of time is a major barrier for teaching process. Therefore the educators and the organizations should assess the learners' needs, learning style, and readiness for learning. The successful learners' assessment would guide the teachers for selecting the effective educational strategies and tools. The second barrier for teaching is teaching competence level of the health care professional. Most of the health care professional did not receive any formal education about teaching. Teaching and learning course should be a part of the health care professional curriculum. Also, the health care administrator should reevaluate the importance of the teaching process. The outcomes of effective teaching include increase the patients' satisfaction, improve the patient quality of care, and improve patients' outcomes. Effective educational process will assist the health care organization to achieve the professional and legal standards and improve the organizational productivity. Health care professional and administrators should provide the appropriate environment for teaching that includes space, time, and quiet environment for teaching. Similarly, the third party should consider reimbursement the health care organization and professional for the patients' education. So, the health care administration would provide more innovative and effective strategies for patients' education.

According to Bastable, Gramet, Jacobs, and Sopczyk (2017), there are many factors influence the learning process that includes lack of time, disease condition, and low literacy. Therefore, health care providers should provide the patient with written education, so the patient and their family review them on their own time. The written education should be in the language that patient would understand. Health care provider should communicate the patient's education through the patient health care continuum. In our hospital, we provide each patient with a health information binder that the health care team use to keep all the new information about the patient disease, diet, rehab, medications, procedures, and resources. The patients review their binder during the hospital stay if possible and encourage asking for any clarification. Also upon patient's admission, the nursing staff assess the patient's learning needs that include the preferred language. Also, health care team uses teach back method to ensure patient's understanding of the new information. Additionally, the nurses are instructed to not overload the patient with a lot of information especially during the acute stage of the disease. At every grade level there are barriers that students who come to school each day not quite read to perform and learn in the most effective manner. Students' problems are exacerbated as they internalize frustrations related to the barriers and the debilitating effects of poor academic or social performance. Addressing the problems begins with a basic appreciation of what causes them. to help minimize such barriers, good teaching and other efforts to enhance positive development must be complemented with direct actions to remove or at least minimize the impact of barriers. Without effective intervention, problems persist, inhibiting student development and learning, and fostering disengagement. New opportunities are emerging as schools attempt to reduce fragmentation through various reform strategies. Assessments focused on individual students and on evaluating instructional effectiveness are being linked in thoughtful new ways. It was interesting to note the author's distinction between barriers and obstacles. Barriers and obstacles are usually used interchangeably, however, in this instance, barriers are seen as emanating from the part of the professional instructor, whereas, obstacles are pertinent to the learner. Some common barriers to all teaching environments are, inadequate time and lack of preparation on the part of the instructor. Some unique barriers can be personal prejudices and preconceived ideas that prevent the instructor from taking an objective approach to teaching. I also think that a lack of support from management, superiors, and an organization, can create barriers to a teaching. A lack of resources, such as computers, teaching material, and funds, may also prove to be hindrances. A professional teacher needs the support of leadership within an organization. This is created based on the organizational culture that governs the way things are done. Lack of motivation can result from lack of organizational support. When a professional instructor has the full support of the organization they represent, it tends to give a sense of pride. Being qualified and prepared to teach a subject requires more than just knowledge of the subject. In fact, you can have the most extensive knowledge base, but lack the ability to convey the subject matter, or to evaluate the understanding of those who are being taught. Having a basic understanding of principles that guide the teacher and the learner, is fundamental to an effective teacher-student relationship. I cannot recount the times that I have sat in a class taught by a well qualified instructor, who could not effectively communicate the subject at a level where most students could understand. It

is possible for an instructor to teach above or below the level of the students. Knowledge of essential teaching-learning principles can eliminate some of these barriers. An effective teacher must be sensitive to the learning needs and styles of their students. Knowing the subject is just not enough to teach it. Knowing and understanding the needs of the students is absolutely essential to being effective. One of my job duties is to assist with training sessions. After different sections, there is an actual application session. During which, I am responsible for tracking common questions. This allows feedback to be given on the portions of training that needs rereviewed due to issues in the way the material was taught. Not only does this method of training ensure all the new employees are confident in their trainingand job skills, it constantly evolves the training techniques and allows for flexibility with each class's individual needs....