By Christopher Moore


Patient education is a type of process where patients and their caregivers are given information concerning their lifestyles and also for improving their health status. The one who conducts this are the health professionals. These are health professionals who already have taken appropriate training and education about patient communication.

This education type is required with the building elements for skills and responsibilities. There is a need for the patient to know the reasons how, why, and when they need to alter their kind of lifestyle. The team members or group members of health care of a certain patient should also be involved. The importance of having patient education handouts is to know its values.

In order for them to quickly respond on medical care, providing handouts to them is one very important thing. This is to inform them on the promotion of healthy behaviors, about health problems, and descriptions of medical treatments. To develop a handout is difficult according to caregivers because they do not have proper training and proper time for doing the design and writing.

Even those skilled writers or journalists are not prepared to write some kind of instructions in which the patients can understand. Having to write contents which are correctly grammatically may not be enough. And because of this, the writers should be flexible, creative, and sensitive when using their language, graphic designs, and illustrations to make any type of audiences understand such handouts.

The contents of handout is usually consists of information and descriptions of the diseases and advices from caregivers. These contents are said to be a spoken communication extension. Since reasons of understanding how are readers giving significance to contents, how contents are maintained and created, and on how these behaviors are influencing the people around are increasing, the effectiveness of having these handouts will surely be possible.

There are three reasons why these handouts are really important. First, it is an extension of medical care and also, it affects the quality of care. The very purpose of this handout is to improve the patients health and quality of life. A handout should also be improving some behaviors by changing the knowledge, values, skills, and choices of the people which are related to their health.

Second, some spoken messages may quickly be forgotten and that is why the information of the handout can be very useful. There is a big possibility that the person speaking may forgot about a certain topic and it may also be reinterpreted. So to avoid this, providing a handout is very useful since it can reduce in remembering instructions and guessing the meanings.

Third, opinions towards the caregivers may be provided by patients because of the handouts. It serves as a means of communication through meta messages and messages. Messages are those instructions provided for the patients and meta messages are the important reasons for messages and for patients toward caregivers. Both may be important parts in the involvement of an institution for marketing.

To improve a persons understanding on diagnosis, medical conditions, disabilities, diseases, and managing methods of condition aspects is one important value of patient education. Another is to improve self advocacy when deciding to be independent or dependent to the medical provider. Lastly, to decrease number of phone calls and also visits and to lower risks of malpractice to expectations.




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I am passionate about educating university students about money and careers, and have been doing so since 2007. I see the same confusion and mistakes being replicated every year. The way I help is through Save the Student. I'm always on the look out for new contributors, so get in touch if you're wanting to get involved! Aside from the site, my main interests are travelling, writing, photography, webdesign, sailing, football and cycling.

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