Key Terms
The process by which the average person learns to make informed decisions about goods and services, including healthcare.
What is Consumer Education?
The key to the success of any educational process.
What is Verifying that patients have actually understood the information?
A popular patient education tool.
What is the medical office newsletter?
Best way to protect yourself against disease and illness.
What is Maintaining or improving your health?
Brochures, booklets, fact sheets, newsletters, DVDs, Internet sites and Community -assistance directory.
What are types of patient education materials?
The process of teaching the patient a new skill by having the patient observe and imitate it.
What is modeling?
Method of teaching that provides patients with a description of the physical sensations they may have as part of the learning or the procedure involved.
What is sensory teaching?
Electronic Health Record systems provide this ability.
What is to create or import informational materials for patients?
The first level of disease and illness prevention.
What is form habits that lower the risk of illness or injury?
Prior to surgery to provide a successful outcome.
What is Educating Patient?
Method of teaching that includes demonstrations of techniques that may be necessary to show that something has been learned.
What is participatory teaching?
Participatory teaching method in which the technique is first described to the patient and then demonstrated to the patient; the patient is then asked to repeat the demonstration.
What is return demonstration?
A complete and up-to-date directory prepared by the office that is accessible to staff and patients and is a valuable aid for referring patients.
What is a Community-Assistance Directory?
Second level of disease prevention.
What is screening?
Learning occurs in 3 domains.
What are knowledge, behaviors, and skills?
Method of teaching that provides the patient with details of the information that is being taught.
What is factual teaching?
Patients who cannot read well or who do not speak or understand English may have this.
What is Educational Barrier?
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Third Level of disease prevention.
What is Rehabilitation?
A benefit of patient education to the medical office.
What is less time on the telephone?
Performing a diagnostic test on a person who is typically free of symptoms.
What is screening?
Consider the patient's cultural background, age, medical condition, emotional state, learning style, education background, disabilities, religious background when doing this.
What is providing new materials?
What is the website address for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration?
Good Nutrition and Regular Exercise are examples.
What are Healthy Habits?
Essential processes that helps ensure patient compliance.
What is Patient education?