Managing Chronic Disease Using Bloom's Taxonomy of Education

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Managing Chronic Disease using Bloom's Taxonomy of Education
Sandra Nicole Jurries
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October 29, 2012
Marc Verlasky

Managing Chronic Disease using Bloom's Taxonomy of Education

Due to advances in health care managing chronic disease in the elderly is a growing area for nursing. Nursing must adapt and find effective ways to educate this population of people about their disease and how to manage it. There are several areas that can impact the way health care education is perceived; the illness itself, cultural background, economic status, and educational background. Studies have been conducted that show that Bloom’s Taxonomy can give a base outline to measure the progress of teaching and how to know that the patient is effectively applying the education. Bloom’s Taxonomy outlines these areas as cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Nurses have used it to make learning tools and to test patients learning (Blooms, 1956).
In the cognitive stage of managing a chronic disease, is where learning how to manage/treat the condition takes place. This is when the nurse educates the patient on the disease and the treatment. Bloom’s taxonomy states that the steps in this stage are remembrance, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating (Bloom, 1956). In these steps the patient learning can be evaluated by looking at each step in depth. For example if a patient is diagnosed with diabetes, the nurse will see if the patient can remember how to perform a blood glucose test properly by return demonstration, the nurse will ask questions to see if the patient can verbalize the correct low-carb diet choices, and see if the patient can put the pieces of education together to see if the patient understands the need for these life style changes. If the patient is unable to do these things then the nurse will have to go back and re-educate the

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