In order to develop effective learning objectives the nurse needs to fully assess the learning abilities of all those expected to participate in the specific learning activity. This might include a wide and varied group of people, it might be a spouse, a child a caregiver a therapist etc. It needs to include anybody that is an active participant in the patients life and anybody included in the patients health care plan.
Once the nurse has determined the participant it is time to start creating the plan. “The nurse needs to ask themselves
What do I want the participants to accomplish/learn.
How will the participants demonstrate that the desired information has been learned?
What verb will be used in the objective to indicate what the participant will do to demonstrate information learned” (Guidelines for Writing Learning Objectives)
The educational plan is very similar to a nursing care plan, it must be specific, quantitative and measurable.“The learning objectives identify detailed processes that will take place in order for the client to achieve success and leave little to no room for speculation” (NRS-429V lecture, 2015). When writing objectives it is crucial to remember the “A,B,C,Ds”
Audience = Who is the learner, this is where you design your objectives for patient family caregivers etc
Behavior = The quantitative, measurable action verb describing the new capability to be achieved.
Condition = Under which said activities will be performed/observed.
Degree = The standard, time, range of accuracy, etc and the criterion of acceptable performance, which also needs to quantitative and measurable
Each objective needs to be tailored made for the intended participant, it is not effective if objectives are to broad. Objectives need to be designed for a single individual to perform a single task in a measurable fashion. It is imperative that objectives