Transcript Patient Education

Patient Education
Pt.’s should be educated in the
following subjects:
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Nutrition & Diet
Exercise and wt. Control
Prevention of STD’s
Smoking Cessation
Alcohol & Drug prevention and tx
Proper use of meds and prescribed tx for
infection
Stress reduction techniques
Disease management
Disease Prevention tips
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Teach hand-washing
Good personal hygiene
Use tissues when coughing or sneezing
Maintain adequate ventilation & light in the
home
Routinely use a commercial disinfectant
Adhere to immunization schedules
Eat nutritious foods, stay physically fit
Avoid stress
Protect against tick, animal & insect exposure
Preventative Health screenings
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Breast, skin or cervical cancer
Mammography
Pap smears
Colonoscopy
After 50- monthly breast self-exam, testicular
exams
Lead poisoning check for children
Blood pressure
Cholesterol
Preventative Health Programs
Prenatal Care
 Health Advisors warn about community
Threats: air pollution, epidemics
Tobacco control programs
Nutrition information
Teenage pregnancy
STD’s
Violence
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Preventative Health Programs
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Infant mortality
Alcohol and drug use
Flu shot clinids
AIDS education
Identifying disease threats
Child immunization programs
Environmental protection
Enforcement of health and safety codes
Appraise patients of health risk
factors and methods of reduction
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Several factors increase a person’s
chances of having a heart attack. Some
risk factors can be changed or controlled,
others cannot. The danger of heart attack
increases with the number of risk factorsthe more present, the greater the risk.
Reducing risk factors, can slow arterial
disease and even reverse it.
Risk Factors cont.
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Men have an increased risk of heart
attack. But it is important for women to
control changeable risk factors as well. A
woman’s chance of dying after a heart
attack is greater than a man’s, and heart
disease is the leading cause of death in
women.