• barriers to learning
–Barriers can include impaired memory or other cognitive deficits; learning disabilities; physical limitations; lack of a
mutually understood language; low literacy levels; impaired hearing, sight, and/or speech; financial issues; and cultural,
psychosocial, and/or emotional patient/family concerns
- Barriers to learning should be assessed through patient interview, while conducting the physical and mental evaluation
on admission, and serially throughout the course of patient care
- Patients with schizophrenia, particularly those with psychotic symptomatology, may be temporarily unable to focus on
learning due to the presence of delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized thoughts/behaviors