Health care providers: bookmark this site! The best and latest in patient education

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, all of our work will be undone. If we are to impact long-term health outcomes, we have to provide excellent patient and family education.

But how?

My book No Time To Teach: The Essence of Patient and Family Education for Health Care Providers tells you how to apply all the latest research to most effectively and efficiently teach patients and families in the limited time you have.

This website will continue that journey. We will share the newest research, questions, challenges, and solutions. We can reform the health care system, one patient at a time.

Join me.

One Response to “Health care providers: bookmark this site! The best and latest in patient education”

1. Amy says:

   October 13, 2009 at 10:31 am

   Hi Fran,
   Your presentation on “The Future of Patient Education” at the Health Care Education Association Conference was excellent. We’re a culture that is becoming increasingly reliant on technology and quick fixes, but your talk really drove home the point that patient education will never be effective unless we customize teaching, built trusting relationships, and partner with our patients to help them learn how take care of themselves. The concepts are so simple, but we so easily lose sight of them when we get overwhelmed and feel like we have “no time to teach,” as you put it! Thanks for helping health care professionals understand just how important education is. Education is not just one thing we do – it’s EVERYTHING that we do.