patient education
Adults with chronic kidney disease: Overview and nursing care goals
Block the pain: A nursing perspective on an opioid-sparing approach
Can you fire a patient?
Do you know the schedule for vaccinating children?
Learn how to promote pediatric immunizations in your practice. Part of ANA’s Bringing Immunity to Every Community campaign. this handout stresses the importance of vaccinating children and their caregivers, parents, and siblings.
Dumping syndrome: Causes, management, and patient education
FDA issues recommendations for strengthening cybersecurity of devices
From our readers…Talking to patients about a “weighty” issue: Are you ready?
Getting comfortable with carbohydrate counting
Getting the message out: Older adults need oral care
Gold standards: ANA and nurse experts promote using national guidelines to inform, intervene with patients
Nurses can help consumers understand and incorporate key healthcare recommendations into their lives.
Hypoglycemia: An unwelcome companion to effective diabetes management
Improving patient education with Health Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Learn how this tool helped an ICU analyze and correct flaws in its patient-education process
Issues up close
To increase health literacy, we need to educate patients and consumers about health issues in a more meaningful, individualized, and patient-oriented way.
Lessons for more efficient research in healthcare settings
Motivational interviewing: A communication best practice
New guidelines for the management of school-based asthma
New York City to launch program for postpartum depression
Opening the lines of communication about HPV
Oral Chemotherapy: Not just an ordinary pill
Our readers respond
Patient and family tele-education
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Promoting patient portal engagement
Providing effective patient teaching on the Internet
A study compares two approached to high-tech teaching.
Quantum nursing III: Connecting on the same wavelength
Dr. Curtin explains why nurses should consciously “connect” with patients
and describes the neural mechanisms that make this possible.
Study: Online prostate cancer information may be hard for patients to understand
Take Note – April 2009
A monthly round-up of clinical and practice news and alerts.
Teach-back: An underutilized tool
Teachable moments: Asthma education in the ED
Using a “teachable moments” model, emergency department staff cacn teach patients now to manage their asthma.
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Teaching patients about FDA recommendations for proper medication disposal
Teaching patients about vitamin and mineral supplements
More than one-third of Americans take vitamin and mineral supplements daily. Do you know what you should be teaching patients?