Patient Education For Patients And The Education - 1914 Words

Introduction Patient Education is dedicated to patients and the education we should be providing as health care professional on a day-to-day basis. Patient Education is one of more important jobs we do in our career as nurses. Children with chronic health problems or diseases such as on a pediatric hematology/oncology unit, require skilled, home-based care by parents, supported by professionals. However, once patients are discharged, it is evident that there is a continuous need for online resources to help supplement their learning and the professional support they may have received during discharge. At this time, existing resources consist on patient/parent education at the bedside, with supplemental handouts to back up the teaching.†¦show more content†¦Dedicated to serving the specialized medical needs of children, from newborns to adolescents, diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia, brain tumors, and blood related diseases such as hemophilia, this 33-bed unit often has a full censu s with patients waiting to get in. They provide support for family members as well as care for the unique needs of the oncology patient during all phases of their illness, diagnosis, treatment, education, and when needed, end of life care. Being that it is a pediatric unit, most of the education is done by the nurses directly to the parents or care givers of the children being treated. But often times, the care givers are given educational information while under extreme stress, still trying to process all the new information and quite often, they have not come to terms with their child’s new diagnosis. Other times, the nurse may be in a hurry, or may have other challenges that factor into the lack of understanding. Some of those contributing factors could include; inadequate knowledge or training of the clinicians, inconsistencies in quality of care, changes in current practice guidelines, limited health literacy skills, conflicts with prior training implementation challeng es, such as language barriers, and lastly, inadequate resources for the care givers. It was this last contributing factor that it was determined a change needed to take