Patient Education Management Archives – May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010
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Speak Up program effective tool for educating patients
The Speak Up program, sponsored by The Joint Commission (TJC), based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, is designed to improve patient safety by teaching patients how to become involved in their health care, thus reducing medical errors. -
Guide offers ideas to improve health literacy
A project in British Columbia has resulted in a list of strategies that can be used in a primary care physician office and an adult literacy program to improve health literacy among patients. -
Headache education in awareness week
To manage chronic headaches, the sufferer must play a key role. -
Communication ensures safety post-discharge
Whether patients are being discharged from the hospital to home, another level of care, or transferred to the care of another health care provider, communication is crucial to ensure a safe discharge or transition, says Hussein Tahan, DNSc, MSN, RN, CNA, executive director, international health services at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. -
Nonadherent patients may not understand
When patients don't follow their discharge instructions and end up back in the hospital, it may be that they simply don't understand what they were supposed to do at home. -
Hospital, skilled nursing facilities collaborate
By working closely with a carefully chosen network of skilled nursing facilities, The Methodist Hospital in Houston has smoothed the transitions in care for patients being discharged to the facilities.