Saturday, April 18, 2015

Improving Health Result With Patient Education

By Stella Gay


Is the act of imparting information to people who are not well health wise and their guardians that will change their behavior on health matters and improve status of their health. Those who can give such information include pharmacists, registered dietitian, registered nurses, medical workers, health planners and health advocates. Patient education is a tool that can be used to help caretakers of those people.

Those who are legally authorized to teach in such fields are pharmacists, nurses who are registered, dietitian who are registered, medical workers, planner from health and advocates of health, the teaching can be useful to managers of health care organisation. The teachings include general preventive teaching, campaigns for health and specific health tutorials. The basic qualities of these tutorials is coming up with skill and observing social responsibility.

People are supposed to know when, why and how to make their lifestyle change, group effort is encouraged to successfully manage the disease. This tutorial can be evaluated by improved indulgent of health condition, more understanding of means and methods to accomplish multiple aspects of medical situations. Upgraded self advocacy in making decision of acting both interdependence and independently with the medical providers. Increased compliance with effective communication and tutorials improves patient motivation.

This teachings increase the outcome as the people involved are more likely to respond well to their treatment schedule and with less complications, they feel informed and can make precise decision since they have the information needed.

One can begin the section by using polite statements like let us now talk about the findings as it also gives the chance to report on findings, lab work or any other medical procedure that the sick person might have gone through. These results should be explained in straightforward simple terminology and at times can be aided by use of analogies or diagrams as they are more comprehensive.

These teachings reduce the numerous phone calls by the clients, increase usage of medical services wisely, and such learners market your hospital by referring their friends to your station, learning also curbs risk of misbehavior and any malpractices to be done since the clients have accurate expectations.

Establish relationship based on care with persons involved and their respective families or guardians, integrate the various factors of health when giving care, not limiting themselves to culture, be culturally open and sensitive to varied society.

Create a relationship of service and care with sick persons in question and encourage their family members or guardian to offer support. Avoid discriminating people on their basis of cultural background. It is advisable to be open and sensitive to various cultures in the society.

Coming up with an effective program to put in place these tutorials may be perceived as time consuming at first, but when in operational they can save time and a lot of trouble, one does not need to start this program from the scratch since there are readily available materials that can help one get started, these are talking to your sick person, using materials which are printed, making your own materials then printing them, using video means, getting informed consent, learning how to communicate with people who do not understand English, getting help from your friends and coming up with website where people can access health information from the comfort of their home.

Getting to know your client through talking to them is very vital, good communication is the cornerstone of teaching in a more effective way, it is believed quality is more necessary than quantity.




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