Teaching Adolescents to Manage Their Own Health Care

Abstract

Many factors impact an adolescent’s willingness to appropriately use health-care services and intent to begin the health-care transition process. Published literature continues to show that the way adolescents experience and utilize health-care services is ineffective and has long-term impacts on individuals and systems. Building upon the success of an existing peer-to-peer workshop, a Toolkit was created to provide school-based health professionals the information and resources needed to deliver pertinent information to high school students in one lesson. Of 416 students, over two thirds reported that they plan to be more involved in their health care (69.8%), advocate for themselves in health-care settings (68.0%), talk openly and honestly with health-care providers (71.9%), and learn more about managing their own health care (68.6%). Integrating this information into existing health curricula provided a broader reach with minimal work and promising results that could improve overall health-care transition efforts.

Transición del adolescente sano al servicio médico de adultos

“…El abordaje del adolescente, sus preocupaciones y sus dudas durante el proceso de transición, puede resultar en una optimización de esfuerzos del grupo multidisciplinario (34).…”

Research on the Innovation of Practical Training Teaching in Nursing Programs under the Perspective of Disciplines

“…In recent years, with the development of undergraduate nursing education in medical schools and colleges, the education and training goal of undergraduate nursing students in China has shifted from "scientific" to "applied", and more nurses are willing to choose to enter clinical work [1] . As part of the nursing education program, practice teaching is an important part of cultivating the clinical practice ability of nursing students, and also lays an important foundation for nursing students to obtain clinical nursing qualification after graduation [2][3] . The Ministry of Education has issued the "Guidelines for Deepening Educational and Teaching Reform in Colleges and Universities under the Central Government", which clearly states that the core task of higher education is to improve the quality of talent cultivation, and the National Nursing Career Development Plan also clearly states that the quality of nursing talent cultivation should be comprehensively improved, and focus on cultivating the spirit of innovation and the ability of nursing practice [4][5] .…”