Monday, January 13, 2014

Ways Of Carrying Out Patient Education

By Marissa Velazquez


Patient education can be defined as planed education activities which are rendered to assist in improving the living conditions, heath status and behaviors of patients. It is designed to slow down deterioration or improve their life. Involvement of family in such programs has greater impacts those just involving individuals. People who are educated on the need for them to get involve in their health are seen as effectively performing better on issues related to their health than others. They actively participate in their treatment process.

Well informed patients are more likely to cooperate during treatments since they understand the importance of such cooperation to better their health. They are informed and therefore are ready to follow the instructions given by doctors to better their life. This is often possible than those who are not educated on the importance of healthy living. Therefore carrying such enlighten has a great impacts on the life of individuals hospitalized or at home. Those hospitalized will recover faster while those at home will be able to take measures which make it easy to prevent such infections or diseases.

This is possible since they know the importance of such participation. It is therefore importance to educate individuals who are at home or those hospitalized. Through this it will effectively enhance faster recovery of hospitalized patients. This will significantly assist individuals to prevent the occurrence of such diseases.

When one understands that their health is important, they will be more likely to invest in their treatments unlike those who do not. They are able to understand the need to be healthy, thereby seeking an immediate health attention unlike those who do not. When an individual does not seek health attention immediately they may be at risk of making their health condition worse. These necessitate individuals to seek immediate health attention at the onset of a disease.

Individuals who are enlightened about their health needs are more involved and accountable for their own health needs. They are more concern on their own health care decisions. This significantly will influence their health behaviors thereby fostering healthy living and improves their health status.

People who are enlightened about their health issues are seen to be very conscious about their health as compared to individuals who have not received such education. This will be more conscious on health decisions since they are aware on how they affect their live. As a result they will effectively improve their health condition.

Through such educations, patients are able to become part of health department since they understand various health processes. They get to know symptoms which are associated to various infection and diseases. This will play a significant role in enticing individuals within their community to seek medical attention. There is need to make such educational processes effective, this can be done through; relating such information to the existing information known to the patients as well as issues relevant to the present condition of the patients.

They as well need to consistently look for feedback from them either through verbal or nonverbal communication and the language the patients understand most. To reinforce such messages, you need to employ active listening strategy. The methods through which such patient education is relayed should also be enhanced by using varied methods such as discussion, print media among others to assist in reinforcing such messages.




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