Wound Care: Sterile Dressing Changes

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According to Bastable and Doody (2007) an objective is a specific, single one-dimensional behavior. Objectives are used to form a map to provide directions on how to achieve a particular goal. In this lesson the students will have two goals. The first is for the student nurses to be able to identify all the supplies necessary to change a sterile dressing and to be able to correctly assess when a dressing needs changed or reinforced. The lesson plan will contain the following objectives:
1. Following classroom lecture, the student will identify all the supplies needed to change a sterile dressing.
2. Following a small group session, the student will be able to recognize the eight signs of when a sterile dressing needs to be changed or reinforced.
These two behavioral learning objectives both fall within the cognitive domain. The first is at the knowledge level, while the second falls on the comprehension level (Bastable & Doody, 2007). The knowledge level assesses the ability of the student to recall information that has been presented to them through instruction. The comprehension level then allows the student to take the information that has been presented to them and demonstrate the fact that they understand the information and can put it into practice.
One of the objectives of this course is for students to be able to describe prevention strategies in caring for adult medical-surgical clients. This lesson fulfills this objective by preparing students to be able to identify all the supplies necessary to change a sterile dressing and to be able to correctly assess when a dressing needs changed or reinforced in order to prevent infection. Infection is the greatest risk that compromise wound healing. Sta...

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...sterile dressing before this lesson is taught a questionnaire will be given to them. The objective will be to determine the current state of skills, knowledge, and abilities of the students (Rouda & Kusy, Jr., 1995). The information that I will be looking for is if the students already how to identify when a sterile dressing needs changed or reinforced and if they know the supplies needed to perform a change and the process for doing the change. This same questionnaire will be administered at the end of the lesson in order to see if the level of knowledge has changed. If the level of knowledge does not increase significantly then the design of the lesson plan may need to be evaluated in order to see why it is that if failed to provide the learners with the knowledge that was intended. It may be that the lesson will need changing in order to be more effective.

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