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""Time Management
Managing TIme for Health Promotion

Background

Today’s health professionals face intense pressure to provide health care for increasing numbers of children and their families, including many with complex medical and behavioral problems. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Bright Futures, and others have recommended prosviding expanded health promotion and preventive services to meet these challenges. Yet, the average time for a pediatric health visit remains 14.2 minutes. In today's health care environment, time management skills are essential tools for providing effective health supervision.

Goals

The goal of this module is to enhance health promotion through teaching a five-step model for integrating effective time management techniques into health supervision.

This module will enable learners to:

  • Apply the five-step Time Management Model to manage the health visit more efficiently.
  • Acquire the knowledge and skills to prioritize goals for the health visit.
  • Understand the role of collaboration and partnership when setting priorities for the health visit.
  • Use the Bright Futures Encounter Forms for Families as a time management tool to identify family needs and concerns, help the family prepare for the health visit, and provide guidance on important health topics.
  • Become familiar with the American Academy of Pediatrics' Well Child Visit Documentation Forms as an effective time management tool.
  • Explore the use of health promotion packets in enhancing the health visit.
 

Instructional Design

This module consists of two 30-minute sessions. Each of the sessions can be used alone or combined into one extended session.

Foundation Session

Session 1: Applying the Five-Step Time Management Model
Presents the five-step Time Management Model and provides opportunities to apply these steps, based on a case vignette.

Enrichment Session

Session 2: Using Encounter and Documentation Forms as Time Management Tools
Examines the use of family encounter forms and pediatric visit documentation forms as effective time management tools for the health visit.

 

Teaching Strategies

The teaching strategies used in this module are:

These strategies have been selected to help learners understand and apply the five-step Time Management Model in their health encounters with children and families. Click on the strategy to quickly link to this resource.

 

Evaluation

Learners will complete a Session Evaluation Form following each session.
Facilitators are encouraged to complete a Facilitator Self-Assessment Form prior to and following each teaching experience (i.e., a single session or an entire module) in order to assess their performance over time.

 

Guiding Questions

Learners who have completed the entire Time Management module should be able to answer the following questions:

  • How can I deliver enhanced health promotion services in a timely manner consistent with the real-world demands of pediatric health care, including care for children with medically and socially complex needs?
  • How do core concepts and skills such as building a partnership with the family improve the efficiency of providing health promotion services? Improve time management?
  • How do interview questions improve the efficiency of the health visit?
  • How can Bright Futures and other health promotion materials help make health visits more efficient?
  • What strategies can minimize the time spent filling out forms to document the visit?
     

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