Basic Concepts Of Patient Education

By Stella Gay


It is the kind of teaching with a set of organised tutorial activity aimed to increase health behaviors of the persons in question. It has a goal of maintaining people health. Reduce deterioration and low complications by the clients. Though this teaching overwhelms the main purpose, because patient education participate actively in their treatment process, improves outcome, assist in curbing errors, and minimize length of hospital stay.

This teaching can be used by managed care organisations, and include overall preventive education, health campaign and specific disease education. Some basic element of this teaching is skill creating and being responsible.

This method can be used to handle any disease problems to be reviewed together with the patient. Make the patient feel as free as possible to avoid passive res ponders. The health care provider can adopt the following in discussing the disease, reporting lab finding, giving outcome of the disease, assessing what the subject knows.

Increased self campaign for decision making, this is to give independently and interdependence to health workers. Improved compliance with good communication and teachings promotes a person motivation helping them recover quicker.

Better utilization of medical services with minimal needless phone calls and hospital visit, such teachings will market your clinic or health care facilities as those who received teaching will refer others to your place, the other aspect is the practice minimizes the risk of misconduct when their people who they taught come with realistic expectations.

When this explanation has been given, it is wise to check the extent of comprehension of the patient of her or his condition. To check this can ask, Can you explain to me briefly your understanding of the problem at hand.

Just like any other profession this field has also qualities to make a good teacher of patients, they should be in a position to incorporate work ethics and being responsible socially by offering services towards people requiring them, giving accurate information competently promotes health care, and enhances preventive health care services.

Application of technology correctly and effectively can increase the client confidence in your services and making it efficient for them to work, always be current, being up to date and informed of every happenings in field and giving advance teachings.

Next stage is importance of client education for health care and rehabilitation. In a good hospital set up, person education is considered a client right and it is therefore the responsibility of the medical provider. This has paved way for objectives and goals being set to ensure client teaching are widely practiced.

Starting these programs at first may seem as time consuming to many, but once the program is in place, it save on cost, time and lowers other related issues, one can start these program by following simple ways, use of dialogue to speak to client, issuing printed materials, printing some of your own materials, using digital video decoder, acquiring informed consensus, being able to communicate to people who use different language other than English and finally having a website for people to access.




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