Technician Focus: The Impact of Adult Learning Styles on Diabetes Device Education

In this course, you will discover how different learning styles, stress, cognitive load, and health literacy can impact a patient’s understanding and retention. You’ll also learn strategies to assess and adapt to their individual needs. While this course is aimed at pharmacy technicians and focuses on diabetes management devices, the skills you will learn are highly transferrable to other patient interactions as well. 

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Description

Description:

When seeking education and/or selecting diabetes monitoring devices, your patients may be dealing with a lot: elevated stress, varying levels of health literacy, high cognitive load, and different learning styles. All of these factors can greatly impact how much they take in and retain, which directly impacts their adherence and ultimate treatment outcomes.

In this course aimed at pharmacy technicians, you will discover the different adult learning styles and how to assess your patient’s. You’ll learn how to adapt your patient interactions and education to suit different learning styles, helping patients better retain the information. This course is focused on patient education, demonstrating and using diabetes management devices, but the skills you will learn are highly transferrable to other patient interactions as well.

This interactive course will also use case studies to help you apply your new skills to real-world patient scenarios. This course is an invaluable investment in your patient education skills.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, you should be able to: 

  • Describe common adult learning styles.​ 
  • Assess patients’ learning style to determine the most effective teaching method(s).​ 
  • Apply the patients’ preferred learning style to help select, demonstrate and explain diabetes devices.  

Course Outline:

  • Learning Module
  • Multiple Choice Exam
  • Program Evaluation

Course at a Glance:

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for pharmacy technicians. This course is also open to healthcare providers who are interested in and would benefit from the content of this program.

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Cancellation Policy:

Please refer to OPA’s Terms and Conditions of Purchase for cancellation policies.