Teaching Plan and Evaluation for Poster Day 4th Semester
My topic was selected from topics offered. I chose ‘Pain’ for my poster
teaching session. I feel this topic is very relevant to nurses. JACHO requires
that all patients have pain assessed. Registered Nurse’s scope of practice is
‘assessment’ so it is relevant that nurses understand how and why we assess
pain.
I chose not to cover in depth the different types of pain. In the limited time
available, I devoted most of my focus to assessment of pain in general.
My teaching plan I developed consisted of:
1. How do we measure our patient’s pain?
2. Who ultimately decides the level of pain being experienced?
3. Why should we as nurses ‘care’ about our patients level of pain?
4. How do diverse cultures and ethnicities express pain in a different ways?
5. What is JACHO and what do they say about pain?
6. Different scales exist to measure pain in aphasic, children, or other
speech impaired individuals.
Learning activities included:
1. Basket of nursing tools to show that we do not have a ‘tool’ that we can
purchase to measure our patients pain.
2. Five page handout to describe evaluating pain, lists of description words to
describe pain, frequency and location, and a few various pain scales available,
and a page with just a few of JACHO’s mandates as relate to pain.
3. A poster board which presented pain and asked ‘How do we measure pain?’
4. Question and answer sessions to keep students interactive.
Evaluation form includes 4 questions relevant to the teaching sessions.
Evaluation form also includes 2 questions relevant to the presenter and what might
be done to improve the teaching session.
Creativity: Used the stethoscope, thermometer, penlight, reflex hammer, blood
pressure cuff, and tuning fork in a basket. I asked students to each choose one and
then asked them who had the right instrument to measure pain. This was to
encourage them to realize that there was NOT an instrument to measure ‘Pain’
Self-Evaluation of Poster Session held on 9/16/2009
