Monday, October 3, 2016

The Significant Reasons For Providing Patient Education Handouts

By Christopher Moore


Patient education is a type of process where patients and their caregivers are given information concerning their lifestyles and also for improving their health status. The one who conducts this are the health professionals. These are health professionals who already have taken appropriate training and education about 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.

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.

There are three reasons why these handouts are really important. First, it is an extension of medical care and also, it affects the quality of care. The very purpose of this handout is to improve the patients health and quality of life. A handout should also be improving some behaviors by changing the knowledge, values, skills, and choices of the people which are related to their health.

Second, some spoken messages may quickly be forgotten and that is why the information of the handout can be very useful. There is a big possibility that the person speaking may forgot about a certain topic and it may also be reinterpreted. So to avoid this, providing a handout is very useful since it can reduce in remembering instructions and guessing the 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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