Patient Education: A Practical Approach

By Kate Lorig

Book Overview

This volume is a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program. Chapters focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program-based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies and selecting or preparing patient education materials. The author makes recommendations on how to work effectively with culturally diverse populations and with difficult patients and on how to deal with compliance problems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761922903
• ISBN13: 9780761922902
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Program development from the ground up.

Are you thinking about creating an education program, with group sessions, for a specific patient population? This book shows you how to involve patients in creation of your program right from the start. And why that's the only way to do it, if you want to do it right.