Sick homes are sad, dull and tedious. There is little to do. And what there is to do, is usually unpleasant.
Too often, the only break in the tedium are the crises that make things worse than they already are.
Many home health aides are overworked too. As well, few have more than high school educations, and english is their second language.
The last thing they need are long, detailed and often scary text- heavy essays on physiology, pharmacology, and the etiology of disese.
And for many, English isn't even their first language.
If you look inside any science of clinical textbook, the first thing you'll see is a buch of pictures
Or you can look at a student's notebook
Students read their
textbooks for homework
Then they go to lectures for the same information
Then! They go home and read that same information from their notes
Then they answer questions
about it on tests
And, on top of that, they do labs that cover the exact same stuff!
INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
GRAPHIC ART
SOAP OPERAS & POIGNANT DOCUMENTARIES
INTERACTIVE WEB CONTENT
Pressure Ulcer Inspection
① Practices that are most important for preventing acute episodes and avoidable hospitalizations.
Especially:
- Medication Adherence
- Warning Sign Recognition
② Essential disease management practices that patients frequently neglect or perform improperly like...
- Diabetic foot inspection: (should be looking at the bottom of the foot, too)
- Proper inhaler administration:
③ Patient FAQs (or, more accurately, "things that really bug patients"), like
"Why do I have to take 17 pills a day?"
