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Patient education

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Patient’s right to know about their health so they can make intelligent, informed decisions about their care and lifestyle, informs patients about their options, how to promote wellness, what health problems to anticipate, how to assist with own treatment, how to cope with impaired functioning

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Passive patient problem

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Make it difficult to place responsibility for change on the patient

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A good practitioner must be able to…

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…convey complex information in an understandable way

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Example of importance of knowing relative value of each intervention you are proposing

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-If you want a patient to stop smoking, drinking, having unprotected intercourse, wear seatbelts, decrease fatty food, and exercise, the primary important one would be wearing seatbelt ->easy to win, most immediate safety, hardest to quit? -> likely smoking or alcohol

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4 guidelines for working with a patient

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1) Persistence
2) Consistence
3) Patient
4) Understanding

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4 guidelines of prescribing medication

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1) When and how to take
2) Why they are taking
3) Intended effect
4) Side effects and adverse reactions that can occur
AND DOCUMENT ALL THIS

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4 guidelines of disease education

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1) Explain to patient pathophys of disease in terms they understand
2) Possible morbidity or mortality associated with disease
3) How it is treated
4) What patients can do for themselves to manage disease

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6 guidelines of diagnostic study education

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1) Explain why a test is needed
2) How the test is performed and where it will be done
3) any prep needed
4) Adverse reactions to test
5) When you expect to get results
6) Cost of test

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5 stages of grief

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1) Denial - withdraw, disregard
2) Anger - Blames and complains, directs anger at healthcare personnel, family, and others
3) Bargaining - offer to live better life in exchange for promise of better health
4) Resolution - Patient begins to perceive and accept responsabiltiy for learning
5) Acceptance - Motivated to learn, actively strives for independence

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Teaching methods

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1) Cognitive outcome - impart knowledge, comprehension, analysis, and evaluation
2) Affective outcome - Teaching attitudes, feelings, opinions, values
3) Psychomotor outcome - teach integration of how to perform an action mentally and physically