Assignment 2 lesson plan

Lesson Plan: Principles of patient care




Course Objectives:

Participants will understand the six principles of patient care: Dignity, Infection Control, Safety, Communication, Independence, and Privacy.

Each participant will demonstrate principles of patient care through role play, and and return demonstration in clinical setting when doing direct patient care.

Participants will pass written quiz with seventy percent accuracy.

Content: Discuss and demonstrate the six principles of patient care stressing the importance of each step in good nursing practice.

Dignity: Inform the students of the importance of speaking to patient by using their proper name. Never call a patient honey or sweety this is demeaning.

Infection Control: Most infections in hospitals are spread by nurses hands. Demonstrate and return demonstration of hand washing. Use National news of MRSA infections in hospital setting and the meaning nosocomial infections. (hospital acquired infections)

Communication: Patients have a right to know what you are doing to them and nurses have the responsibility to explain all procedures to the patient before doing them.

Safety: This is the most important principle. Check the patient ID band is this the right patient. Check your orders. Have call bell within reach of the patient answer it promptly. Demonstrate to students how use call light systems, electric bed, show them sample arm bands. Discuss with students how to find a patient care plan and importance of reading it before taking care of patient.

Independence: Encourage a patient to assist in their own care. Providing adaptive devices so people with disabilities can live more independently. Demonstrate built up eating utensils for people with arthritis. Demonstration of wheel chair and how to remove and replace footrest and apply breaks.

Privacy: Demonstrate and return demonstrate how to drape a person properly during patient procedures. Talk about the rights patients have to confidentiality. Nurses can be sued for breaking patients confidentiality. Patient records are on the need to know basis. Discuss what information a student can have access to have and the rights of patients to refuse to have students have access to the patient or their records. Discuss George Clooney and how the hospital suspended staff for not keeping his medical information private.

Teaching Methods:


Lecture, discussion, demonstration, return demonstration and role play. Written Quiz



Accommodation (Differentiated Instruction)

Written Vocabulary List for ESL students. Lecture with White Board use for hearing impaired)
Demonstration and check for feedback with return demonstration. Written Quiz with Mosbey textbook for resource.


Materials used. Classroom white board for lecture. DVD player for news media and or newspaper articles on increase in infections. Nursing lab with all with all its materials, Visit to a nursing unit and visits with patient in long term care. Written quiz on principles of patient care.

Evaluation: Return demonstration of role play of nurse patient relationship. Demonstration of use of equipment, handwashing. Understanding of confidentiality. Written Quiz.