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Do you appreciate these tips on how to teach patients more efficiently and effectively? Looking for more? Then read the book No Time to Teach: The Essence of Patient and Family Education for Healthcare Providers. Best of all, right now the publisher is offering a 20% discount! ...

How can you get nurses ...

How can you get nurses to teach patients and families? I was asked this by a neonatal clinical nurse specialist. Here’s the response I sent her: Great question. How can you get nurses to teach? It depends on what the problem is. - Do they know how to teach? Have you measured...

Do your patients not sp...

If your health care setting sometimes has you working with patients who don’t speak the same language as you, you know how frustrating it can be for everyone involved. What to do until the interpreter arrives? Well, the Department of Human Services of the State Government of...

The word is getting out...

Synergy Broadcast Systems has interviewed me for their blog. For my answers to these 3 questions, see Part 1 of 3: • What was your motivation for writing No Time to Teach? • What’s the most important thing a nurse can do to ensure they connect with the patient so that learning...

Medication adherence pr...

It’s a fact. Patients don’t always take their medicine as prescribed. An article by Cutler and Everett (2010) in the New England Journal of Medicine said poor adherence to treatment regimens contributes to poor health outcomes and added expenses from preventable hospitalizations....