Patient and Family Education

Question 1

A patient should be a full what?

Answer 1

a full partner in their health care team

Question 2

When a partnership exists, patients experience what?

Answer 2

experience decreased anxiety and improved outcomes

Question 3

Patients and their family support systems should be what?

Answer 3

actively engaged in their health care

Question 4

What is a health disparity?

Answer 4

the difference in health between groups

Question 5

Disparities can be related to what?

Answer 5

gender, race, or ethnicity, income, education, sexual orientation, or geography

Question 6

What does health equality mean?

Answer 6

means everyone receives the same standard of care

Question 7

How does the equality and human rights commission define equality?

Answer 7

as the distribution of the same resources and opportunities to every individual across a population

Question 8

Does equality account for disparities?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

What does health equity mean?

Answer 9

means that people have opportunities based on their need.

Question 10

Does equity account for disparities?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

What are 3 examples of equity?

Answer 11

1. providing low cost health services for those living in low income housing
2. offering evening or late-night health appointments for people who work 12-hour shifts
3. going to low income housing to provide the COVID-19 vaccine

Question 12

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?

Answer 12

Social determinants of Health (SDOH)

Question 13

What are 6 resources that enhance quality of life and can influence population health outcomes?

Answer 13

1, Access to education

2. availability of healthy food
3. local/emergency health service
4. public safety
5. safe and affordable housing
6. toxin free environments

Question 14

What are ERAS (enhanced Recovery After Surgery)?

Answer 14

is a patient-centered, evidence-based, multidisciplinary team-developed pathway that can be used for simple and complex surgical procedures.

Question 15

What do ERAS have a primary focus on?

Answer 15

1. reducing a patient’s surgical stress response
2. Optimizing a patient’s physiological functions
3. facilitating a patient’s recovery

Question 16

What are the key components of ERAS?

Answer 16

1. patient and family education
2. patient optimization prior to admission
3. minimal fasting
4. multimodal analgesia
5. return to normal diet and activities the day of surgery
6. return to home

Question 17

From the list below, identify the purposes of ERAS:

1. increase fasting time
2. increase the patient’s surgical stress response
3. optimize the patient’s physiological function
4. improve the nutritional status prior to surgery

Answer 17

3 and 4

Question 18

Accountable care Organization (ACO) is a model of care that includes what?

Answer 18

physicians health care organization representatives, and other health care providers
voluntarily joining together

Question 19

What 3 things does the ACO help with?

Answer 19

o give high quality, coordinated health care to patients whose care is covered by Medicare
o avoid duplication of services
o decrease errors.

Question 20

What does the ACO model offer?

Answer 20

offers patients coordination of care, the right care at the right time, and care that is most cost-effective.

Question 21

Who has control in patient and family centered care?

Answer 21

the patient and family are given the control in patient and family centerd care

Question 22

What 4 principles do patient and family centered care consist of?

Answer 22

1. dignity and respect
2. information sharing
3. participating
4. collaboration

Question 23

True or false; for the patient education to be successful, the patient must be actively engaged in the process.

Answer 23

true

Question 24

true or false; in patient- and family-centered care, the emphasis is on the collaboration between the patient, family, and health care providers.

Answer 24

true

Question 25

true or false; when a patient receives verbal patient teaching, the patient should receive written instructions as well

Answer 25

true

Question 26

What is.1 goal of patient- and family-centered care?

Answer 26

to improve the patient’s knowledge regarding their care

Question 27

What is a way to determine whether the patient understood the education presented by a healthcare provider?

Answer 27

teach back

Question 28

How is the teach-back method suggested to work?

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What does patient engagement involve?

Answer 29

involves encouraging patients to take an active role in their own care, to help improve health outcomes, improve patient care, and achieve lower cost.

Question 30

What is patient- and family-centered care?

Answer 30

is working with patients and families rather than doing “to” or “for” them.

Question 31

What is patient- and family-centered care based on?

Answer 31

based on beneficial partnerships among healthcare providers, patients, and families.