Great resource on funct...

How can you best teach patients with poor functional health literacy skills? Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills by Doak, Doak, & Root (1996) was the classic resource.  It went out of print in 2006.  Fortunately, the copyright on the text was returned to Ceci and Len...

Another reason to evalu...

Can your patient point to that body organ?  Maybe not. This study concludes health care professionals should not assume patients know about the organs in which their medical problems are located. http://notimetoteach.com/howaccurateispatientsanatomicalknowledge This is another reason...

Health care providers: ...

After saving lives, the most important service of health care providers is to teach patients and families to care for themselves. Most care is self-care. If they don’t know how to follow-up on our interventions, why and how to medicate, how to recognize problems and how to respond,...

Teach in no time!...

Frustrated trying to fit patient & family education into no time? Author Fran London, RN, MS, gives you the essentials and the inspiration you need to make a big impact on the quality of care and your patients’ quality of life.