Saturday, October 1, 2016

Reasons Of Why Patient Education Handouts Are Important

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.

In order for them to quickly respond on medical care, providing handouts to them is one very important thing. This is to inform them on the promotion of healthy behaviors, about health problems, and descriptions of medical treatments. To develop a handout is difficult according to caregivers because they do not have proper training and proper time for doing the design and writing.

Even the writers who have skills and even the journalists have said that they are no really prepared of doing some writings of instructions that all kinds of patients will understand. Writing contents that are grammatically correct already is not enough. For this reason, writers must be creative, sensitive, and flexible when it comes to the usage of graphic designs, illustrations, and language so that patients will understand the handouts.

Typically, the content of a handout includes the descriptive information about the diseases and the advices of the caregivers. These can be considered as an extension of the spoken communication. And because the reason is increasing for understanding of how the readers give importance to these texts, how it is created and maintained, and also how the behaviors of people are influenced by these, there is a big possibility that these handouts can be very effective enough.

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.

To improve a persons understanding on diagnosis, medical conditions, disabilities, diseases, and managing methods of condition aspects is one important value of patient education. Another is to improve self advocacy when deciding to be independent or dependent to the medical provider. Lastly, to decrease number of phone calls and also visits and to lower risks of malpractice to expectations.




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