PMID: 19947125Dec 2, 2009Paper

Knowing the patient's representations in order to optimize the educational project

Recherche en soins infirmiers
Patricia Robin-Quach

Abstract

To determine if this educational care meets the needs of the patients. To show that to know the representations made by the patient on his disease, his health and on his educational needs allows to define with him a programme of adapted accompaniment and to reduce the risk of ineffective care of his therapeutic programme. 7 interviews of patients were carried out before their integration in an educational process, in three different medico-surgical specialities, with the condition that the latter offer to the patients a formalized educational process. An interview of each of the 3 people in charge or referent of the educational unit was also carried out to understand the educational care proposed to the patients. The grid of interview of the patient used original techniques of expression, and aimed at investigating the representations of the patient on his disease, his health and his educational needs. The 3 services in which the interviews of the patients took place present 3 different educational structures of care: the first one has a profile of "psycho-pedagogical" educational care, the second, a profile of "psychological" type and the third, a profile of "educational" type. They thus propose different tools of educational ...Continue Reading

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