Patient Education Management Archives – August 1, 2003
August 1, 2003
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Making patients part of the safety effort; tip sheet helps reduce medical errors
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. -
Pre-testing patient safety tool helps ensure success
The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle is in no hurry to implement a tool an ad hoc committee created to teach patients their role in safety issues. It is running it through a series of pre-tests before implementing it housewide. -
On-line fact sheets provide patient safety education
Before creating a tool to help patients and their families understand their roles in patient safety, Cezanne Garcia, MPH, CHES, manager of patient and family education Services at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, conducted a literature search to determine what information was available. -
Health care education week is a time for outreach
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. -
Put teaching tips in handout form for staff
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. -
Patient educator never tires of research role
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. -
Group focuses on ovarian cancer education efforts
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. -
HCEA schedules patient education conference
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. -
Focus on Pediatrics: Prepare parents and child before ostomy surgery
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. -
Focus on Pediatrics: OK to teach teens as adults, but be creative
Adolescence is the age when children begin to be able to rationalize consequences and think abstractly.