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New guide improves staff education efforts; Promotion of events on patient education; Share your success stories with PEM.
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An asthma pathway was implemented at Childrens Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis because this chronic disease is the No. 1 hospital admission. The pathway creates a plan for the course of the patients hospitalization that helps to get the asthma under control, educates the patient and family members, and gets the patient back to a normal lifestyle quickly.
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When children are diagnosed with cancer, a lot of education needs to take place. Yet it doesnt happen all at once, but over time through several hospital admissions and outpatient clinic visits.
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To prompt nurses to begin thinking about difficult cases and planning early for discharge, Susan Lewis, RN, BSN, a health education specialist at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE, created eight case studies to include in new employee orientation.
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A process for making follow-up calls after new moms are discharged with their babies from Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA, has helped to improve discharge instructions at the health care facility.
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Educators often emphasize the fact that it is the nurse, pharmacist, dietitian, or other discipline who does the teaching, and handing a pamphlet to a patient is not teaching. Yet most would agree that pamphlets and videos are valuable tools in that teaching process.
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Pain could be a sign that a person has had poor posture for a long time. It often occurs after the body has adapted as far as it can to poor posture, says Scott Bautch, DC, past president of the Occupational Health Council for the Arlington, VA-based American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and a practicing chiropractor in Wausau, WI.
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To achieve good posture, it is important to make computer stations fit the person as best as possible, says Scott Bautch, a practicing chiropractor in Wausau, WI.
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This article, the second of two parts, deals with the potentially disastrous situation in which either the patients airway presents a substantial challenge or standard intubation methods have failed.
