Patient Education

1. Patient Education

2. Pt.’s should be educated in the following subjects: • Nutrition & Diet • Exercise and wt. Control • Prevention of STD’s • Smoking Cessation • Alcohol & Drug prevention and tx • Proper use of meds and prescribed tx for infection • Stress reduction techniques • Disease management

3. Disease Prevention tips • Teach hand-washing • Good personal hygiene • Use tissues when coughing or sneezing • Maintain adequate ventilation & light in the home • Routinely use a commercial disinfectant • Adhere to immunization schedules • Eat nutritious foods, stay physically fit • Avoid stress • Protect against tick, animal & insect exposure

4. Preventative Health screenings • Breast, skin or cervical cancer • Mammography • Pap smears • Colonoscopy • After 50- monthly breast self-exam, testicular exams • Lead poisoning check for children • Blood pressure • Cholesterol

5. Preventative Health Programs • Prenatal Care • Health Advisors warn about community Threats: air pollution, epidemics Tobacco control programs Nutrition information Teenage pregnancy STD’s Violence

6. Preventative Health Programs cont. • Infant mortality • Alcohol and drug use • Flu shot clinids • AIDS education • Identifying disease threats • Child immunization programs • Environmental protection • Enforcement of health and safety codes

7. Appraise patients of health risk factors and methods of reduction • Several factors increase a person’s chances of having a heart attack. Some risk factors can be changed or controlled, others cannot. The danger of heart attack increases with the number of risk factors- the more present, the greater the risk. Reducing risk factors, can slow arterial disease and even reverse it.

8. Risk Factors cont. • Men have an increased risk of heart attack. But it is important for women to control changeable risk factors as well. A woman’s chance of dying after a heart attack is greater than a man’s, and heart disease is the leading cause of death in women.