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Patient education and communication

Authors :
Felicity Astin
Emma Harris
Lis Neubeck
Robyn Gallagher
Jennifer Jones
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, 2021.

Abstract

Nurses and allied health professionals play a key role in communicating and educating patients and informal carers. Comprehensive therapeutic patient education requires planning, delivery, evaluation, and documentation. Informal carers should be involved in all aspects of therapeutic education. Communication skills training for health professionals can improve patient satisfaction with care. Therapeutic education is more likely to be effective if best practice communication and teaching skills are applied in clinical practice which includes a learning needs assessment. Single sessions of therapeutic education are less effective than multiple sessions with follow-up. Problematic health literacy is a major obstacle to therapeutic patient education. Universal health literacy precautions should be implemented to reduce health inequalities. Effective therapeutic patient education has the potential to reduce unnecessary health resource use by patients and adverse events.

Subjects

Subjects :
education

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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