Friday, October 14, 2016

The Importance Of Patient Education Handouts

By Christopher Moore


A patient education is a process where in the patients and as well as their caregivers are provided with information about changing their health lifestyles and improving status of health. This is usually conducted by some health professionals. These healthcare professionals that have undertaken the appropriate education and training for patient communication.

This education requires the elements of building the skills and the responsibilities. It is important for the patients to know why, when, and how they will need to change their lifestyle. The group or the members of health care team of a patient must be involved to this. Patient education handouts are important for them to know the values of it.

An important thing to be done so that they will respond to the medical care is providing them with handouts for informing them on descriptive medical treatments, health problems, and promoting healthy behaviors. Developing a handout can be difficult. The reason is caregivers may not have enough training and time for designing and writing it.

Even journalists and skilled writers have difficulties on providing information and instructions that all patients could understand. And even those writing contents which are already correct grammatically are not enough. So it would be very necessary for writers to possess the skills of creativity, sensitivity, and flexibility when talking about their illustrations, language, and graphic designs so all patients can understand those handouts.

The contents of handout is usually consists of information and descriptions of the diseases and advices from caregivers. These contents are said to be a spoken communication extension. Since reasons of understanding how are readers giving significance to contents, how contents are maintained and created, and on how these behaviors are influencing the people around are increasing, the effectiveness of having these handouts will surely be possible.

The following are three important reasons of handouts. First, this serves as medical care extension and it also affects the quality care. The improvement of life quality and patients health is the main goal of this. This handout should also help in improving a persons behavior by altering their choices, skills, values, and knowledge concerning health.

Second is the spoken messages may possibly be forgotten quickly, thus, an informative handout is useful. It is possible that spoken messages are quickly lost and can be reinterpreted. So a handout can prevent reinterpretation and loss and would help in reducing to remember instructions and to guess some forgotten meanings.

Third is that patients can provide opinions about their own caregivers through the handouts. A handout communicates both message and meta message. The message are the instructions given to patients and meta message is the importance of message and patients to caregivers. Both the message and the meta message are also important for the marketing involvement of a certain institution.

Some of the values of this patient education includes improving the understanding of diseases, disabilities, medical conditions, diagnosis, and methods for managing the condition aspects. It also includes improving self advocacy on deciding to be dependent or be independent to medical providers. Lastly, is for decreasing the number of phone calls and visits and lowering the risk on malpractice of expectations.




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