Patient Education Management Archives – August 1, 2006
August 1, 2006
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Tailoring diabetes education to make patients advocates for themselves
Diabetes is the most difficult chronic illness to manage because so much of it is dependent upon the patient's ability to self-manage. -
Teaching diabetes survival skills for a safe discharge
Patients newly diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, or those admitted to the hospital because of an inability to manage the disease, need to learn certain skills for a safe discharge. -
What is on your bookshelf?
Recently, a few patient education coordinators were asked what books they kept on their reference shelves. -
Are you collecting data you don't really need?
In the process of collecting restraint data, you learn that certain physicians are not signing daily orders. -
Hospice creates tool kit for caregiver education
Hospice staff must spend a significant amount of time educating patients and caregivers, but the dilemma is how to do it efficiently and effectively. -
Motivate patients to take control of their own health
Health plans across the nation have adapted numerous strategies to increase adherence among the 20% of their member population who consume 80% of the health care expenditures.