Patient Education Management Archives – April 1, 2005
April 1, 2005
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Learning assessments — impossible to teach effectively without them
Health care providers cannot begin to educate patients and families until they determine what patients already know, how they like to learn, and if there are any factors that will interfere with the teaching or learning, says the patient and family education coordinator at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta. -
Tailor education by using information assessment
The purpose of a learning assessment is to learn how best to teach the patient or family. Therefore, the information gathered must be used to tailor the teaching to the learner. -
Techniques to improve classroom instruction
The techniques used by clinical educator Vicky Becherer make her teaching more effective and improve classroom instruction whether the students are health care providers or patients and community members. -
‘Culture Clues’ help staff understand diverse patients
Before clinical staff at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle provide care to a patient from another culture, they consult the hospitals Culture Clues, one-page laminated sheets with key points about a particular culture and how its members generally perceive health care. -
End-of-life communication hard for discharge planners
Medical City Dallas Hospital staff tailor their discharge planning and education around the patient and familys cultural beliefs, particularly when end-of-life issues are involved. -
Work with interpreters to plan discharge at admission
By using the hospitals on-site interpreters when they make assessments of patients who dont speak English, staff at Boston Medical Center are able to start the discharge plan early in the stay and identify resources in the community that provide services for people of different religions and ethnic backgrounds.