Patient and Family Education Flashcards
A patient should be a full what?
a full partner in their health care team
When a partnership exists, patients experience what?
experience decreased anxiety and improved outcomes
Patients and their family support systems should be what?
actively engaged in their health care
What is a health disparity?
the difference in health between groups
Disparities can be related to what?
gender, race, or ethnicity, income, education, sexual orientation, or geography
What does health equality mean?
means everyone receives the same standard of care
How does the equality and human rights commission define equality?
as the distribution of the same resources and opportunities to every individual across a population
Does equality account for disparities?
no
What does health equity mean?
means that people have opportunities based on their need.
Does equity account for disparities?
yes
What are 3 examples of equity?
- providing low cost health services for those living in low income housing
- offering evening or late-night health appointments for people who work 12-hour shifts
- going to low income housing to provide the COVID-19 vaccine
What are conditions in the place where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of-
life risks and outcomes?
Social determinants of Health (SDOH)
What are 6 resources that enhance quality of life and can influence population health outcomes?
1, Access to education
- availability of healthy food
- local/emergency health service
- public safety
- safe and affordable housing
- toxin free environments
What are ERAS (enhanced Recovery After Surgery)?
is a patient-centered, evidence-based, multidisciplinary team-developed pathway that can be used for simple and complex surgical procedures.
What do ERAS have a primary focus on?
- reducing a patient’s surgical stress response
- Optimizing a patient’s physiological functions
- facilitating a patient’s recovery
What are the key components of ERAS?
- patient and family education
- patient optimization prior to admission
- minimal fasting
- multimodal analgesia
- return to normal diet and activities the day of surgery
- return to home
From the list below, identify the purposes of ERAS:
- increase fasting time
- increase the patient’s surgical stress response
- optimize the patient’s physiological function
- improve the nutritional status prior to surgery
3 and 4
Accountable care Organization (ACO) is a model of care that includes what?
physicians health care organization representatives, and other health care providers
voluntarily joining together
What 3 things does the ACO help with?
o give high quality, coordinated health care to patients whose care is covered by Medicare
o avoid duplication of services
o decrease errors.
What does the ACO model offer?
offers patients coordination of care, the right care at the right time, and care that is most cost-effective.
Who has control in patient and family centered care?
the patient and family are given the control in patient and family centerd care
What 4 principles do patient and family centered care consist of?
- dignity and respect
- information sharing
- participating
- collaboration
True or false; for the patient education to be successful, the patient must be actively engaged in the process.
true
true or false; in patient- and family-centered care, the emphasis is on the collaboration between the patient, family, and health care providers.
true
true or false; when a patient receives verbal patient teaching, the patient should receive written instructions as well
true
What is.1 goal of patient- and family-centered care?
to improve the patient’s knowledge regarding their care
What is a way to determine whether the patient understood the education presented by a healthcare provider?
teach back
How is the teach-back method suggested to work?
It is suggested that the individual presenting the education ask the patient and family member to teach the information back because the health care provider would determine how will they presented the information.
What does patient engagement involve?
involves encouraging patients to take an active role in their own care, to help improve health outcomes, improve patient care, and achieve lower cost.
What is patient- and family-centered care?
is working with patients and families rather than doing “to” or “for” them.
What is patient- and family-centered care based on?
based on beneficial partnerships among healthcare providers, patients, and families.
