Patient education: Guided patient education
Patient education: Guided patient education
Patient education sessions need to evolve with the healthcare industry. This assignment challenges you to rethink patient education by looking at adult education principles as you guide patients to reputable sources for further review.
Create a patient education tool for the ailment you researched in this week’s learning activity. The tool should promote patient competency and e-health literacy. Consider:
How patients can/will use the tool
Patient experience managing this ailment
Community resources such as public libraries, parks and recreation community centers, and neighborhood service centers for free computer and internet access
Patient ability to perform basic computer functions
Graphs, charts, labels, or other visual information the consumer is likely to see
Direction for how to search and apply relevant online information
Format your assignment as one of the following:
online module (powerpoint)
or
trifold brochure
Include a minimum of three scholarly sources and develop an APA-formatted reference page.
Explain your rationale for choosing the format on a new page in your reference page document.
This assignment will be one of the fun things you do in this course plus you can demonstrate your ability to optimize your clinical skills in an educational tool. Many choose to create a trifold or flyer. That seems to be what nurses like to use when teaching patients. A learning module can be a part of an education component for example, teaching how to use a glucometer which is component of diabetes education. The module can be a power point you would use and present in a class or a voice added power point you can have a patient view in private or class.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
