How can the learning theories be used in combination to change behavior and enhance learning?

How can the learning theories be used in combination to change behavior and enhance learning?

You are a staff nurse preceptor, and you find that the nurse orientee you are working with has difficulty understanding the idea of titrating drug dosages on the basis of physiologic data. A weakness in which type(s) of learning might be underlying this problem? In addressing this orientee’s difficulty, what other information would you collect?

You are preparing to counsel a nursing students who is failing a nursing course: How would your approach differ if you base your counseling on Self-Efficacy Theory versus Attribution Theory?

If you are a clinical preceptor in a health care agency, how could Social Cognitive Theory assist you in teaching your preceptee?

Professional Development:

List and briefly describe the ways that each of the major learning theories—behaviorist, cognitive, social learning, psychodynamic, and humanist—can be used to increase a behavior. Then, list and briefly describe the ways that each of these major theories can be used to decrease or extinguish a behavior.