(n.) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
(n.) That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted
(n.) Precept; information; teachings.
(n.) Direction; order; command.
Example Sentences:
(1) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(2) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
(4) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
(7) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(8) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
(9) The students were instructed to give up the discussion if they were convinced that the partner's position was a better solution.
(10) Patients should be carefully instructed in the optimal use of metered-dose inhalers, and some patients may benefit from use of tube-spacers.
(11) An investigation carried out over a period of two years demonstrated how these skills may be acquired using single sensory and bisensory modes of instruction.
(12) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
(13) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(14) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
(15) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
(16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(17) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
(18) To help overcome this problem, a stereoscopic slide-based auto-instructional program has been developed as a substitute for dissection.
(19) The management of painful, upper-limb disorders by 34 general practitioners (GPs) was examined 3 months before and 3 months after personal instruction of GPs by a consultant rheumatologist.
(20) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
Teachable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
(2) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
(3) Nevertheless, the mixture of knowledge, skills, and attitudes are collectively unique as applied by the family physician, and are teachable, learnable, and subject to critical inquiry and research.
(4) Young people have valuable soft skills making them a teachable fit for many of the technical skills required in each job," said Mark Cahill, Manpower UK's managing director.
(5) The subject-matter has to be fragmented in order to be teachable, but somebody has to put the whole person together again.
(6) Composed of teachable components, transformational factors are similar to leadership qualities described in magnet hospitals, offering positive implications for nursing administration and professional nursing practice.
(7) These parallel conditions provide opportunities for both organizations to work closely together to identify successful models to serve the "teachable moments" of all health care practitioners.
(8) The purpose of this approach is to provide a parsimonious means of organizing and verifying clinical information, thus making the assessment process both manageable and teachable.
(9) This technique represents a reliable, rapid, and readily teachable method for the surgical management of tricuspid insufficiency.
(10) It is important to teach when a "teachable" moment has arrived.
(11) A child's visit to a physician for these illnesses represents a "teachable moment" to screen for household smokers and to counsel parents regarding the health effects of passive smoking.
(12) Given recent studies identifying environmental tobacco smoke as a risk factor for children by being associated with an increase in the incidence and severity of respiratory tract and ear infections, family physicians should be routinely screening parents, especially during visits that provide teachable moments for counseling and intervention.
(13) It then presents a teachable developmental theory weaved from threads of numerous known theories, and describes a process whereby "interminable" foster experience was used therapeutically for a group of handicapped homeless children.
(14) Suggestions for survival for continuing educators and librarians in "stalking the teachable moment" are discussed.
(15) Twelve practice principles for the primary physician are discussed, touching on such issues as style of communication, recognition of the "teachable moment," utilization of the longitudinality of the physician-patient relationship, coordination of care, and causes of failure.
(16) CDC director Tom Frieden said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday that this is a “teachable moment” for US hospitals.
(17) Some people have a natural strength with them but they’re teachable and we’re not doing that.
(18) Mother Nature provides an almost endless series now of teachable moments.
(19) Analysis of results showed easy and reproducible teachability, a high degree of acceptance by dentists and examinees, accuracy, and low cost.
(20) "Teachable" moments can occur at any time during hospitalization.