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During Health Care Education Week at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, Benjamin T. Laroya, RN, BSN, OCN, patient and family education coordinator, assembled a list of teaching tips to handout to staff who came by the display on patient education.
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Barb Petersen, RN, BSN, is patient education coordinator at Great Plains Regional Medical Center, a 116-bed facility in North Platte, NE. While meeting a variety of patient needs, she says a passion for learning keeps her job fresh.
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While medical errors are not a new phenomenon, they suddenly are becoming high profile due to government reports, media coverage, and standards to improve patient safety by such accrediting agencies as the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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After participating in Health Care Education Week last year, staff in the Patient, Family, and Community Education Department at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, decided to participate again this November.
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Building awareness of the signs and symptoms for ovarian cancer is the mission of The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition based in Boca Raton, FL. While other organizations raise money for research, the coalition uses its funds to educate the general public and physicians.
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The Health Care Education Association has schedule its sixth annual Health Care Education Associations Institute on Sept. 25-27 at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC.
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Teaching parents and children about ostomy care takes more than straightforward instruction because this form of surgery is an emotional issue, says Marie Oren, RN, BSN, CWOCN, a wound, ostomy, continence nurse at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Adolescence is the age when children begin to be able to rationalize consequences and think abstractly.
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No matter what stage you are in with your occupational health program, you will regularly face the challenge of setting priorities. Occupational health experts say the needs of your employees, the corporate culture, and management goals and objectives help set the initial parameters for your program. After that, its a matter of determining which programs can accomplish the greatest amount of good, which can save the most money, and which can create the most value.
