Patient Education Management Archives – May 1, 2006
May 1, 2006
View Issues
-
To purchase teaching sheets or write in-house: That is the question
Which is best? Purchasing commercially produced teaching sheets or writing your own to distribute via the Intranet? The answer is not as simple as the question seems; there are many issues to consider. -
How to's for creating easy-to-read materials
Although many in the field of health care think only the poorly educated fall into the category of low health literacy, that is not necessarily the case. -
Perfecting the form and documentation process
Laura Gebers, BSN, RN, BC, health education coordinator at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ, has set in place several tools to help ensure that patient education is documented correctly. -
Program helps young asthmatics control disease
In the first six months of Keystone Mercy Health Plan's Healthy Hoops program, which combines basketball and asthma management, the percentage of children in the program with an emergency department visit for asthma fell 26%, ... -
Navigators guide patients through the continuum
When patients are referred to the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in East Harlem, NY, they are met on their initial visit by a patient navigator whose job is to ensure that they receive a timely diagnosis and treatment. -
Boost teens' knowledge when it comes to STDs
You deliver some bad news to your next patient, a 16-year-old student: She has a chlamydia infection. She then asks, "What is chlamydia?"