“As part of routine diabetic education, our nurse provided a foot care Care Kit to the participant, which includes teaching materials and a mirror to ensure the entire foot can be examined for wounds. He reported that using the mirror he found a bleeding wound on his foot and was seen ...
“As part of routine diabetic education, our nurse provided a foot care Care Kit to the participant, which includes teaching materials and a mirror to ensure the entire foot can be examined for wounds. He reported that using the mirror he found a bleeding wound on his foot and was seen ...
19. Reinforce the need to continue additional therapies for hypertension (weight loss,sodiumrestriction, stress reduction, regular exercise, moderation of alcohol consumption, and smoking cessation). Medication controls but does not cure hypertension. ...
In a model project, office-based physicians in two regions of Germany provided a structured treatment and teaching programme for out-patients with hypertension. The project was carried out in co-operation with the German Hypertension League and designed to evaluate the practicability and efficacy of ...
Johnson came to the Peace Corps after studying political science and international affairs at the University of Colorado because he was “indecisive on what I wanted to do in life.” He quickly took to his job, teaching English to teenage students in a small town outside of Odessa in Ukraine...
The nurse is providing discharge teaching for a post-myocardial infarction (MI) client who will be taking 1 baby aspirin a day. The nurse determines that the client understands the use of this medication if the client makes which statement? - correct answer ✔✔"I will take this medicatio...
Hospitals without any postgraduate medical residents or fellows (nonteaching) were distinguished from those with 1:4 or smaller trainee-to-bed ratios (minor teaching) and those with ratios higher than 1:4 (major teaching). High-technology hospitals were those that had facilities for either open-...
Less than 25 percent of patients with hypertension in the United States have their blood pressure under control, mainly because of inadequate or inappropriate therapy and noncompliance. Approximately one half of these treatment failures are related to factors such as cost and adverse effects of medica...
Continuity of care is a core value of patients and primary care physicians, yet in graduate medical education (GME), creating effective clinical teaching environments that emphasize continuity poses challenges. In this Perspective, the authors review three dimensions of continuity for patient care-inform...
Interventions for clients with learning disabilities Tips for Creating Teaching Aids for Patient Education 1. Language Level and Voice 2. Sentence structure and size type 3. Prioritization and Setting Examples 4. Forms and Other Resources for Teaching Aids ...