Patient Education

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Patient Education
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Pt.s should be educated in the following
subjects

• Nutrition Diet
• Exercise and wt. Control
• Prevention of STDs
• Smoking Cessation
• Alcohol Drug prevention and tx
• Proper use of meds and prescribed tx for
  infection
• Stress reduction techniques
• Disease management

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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

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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

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Preventative Health Programs

• Prenatal Care
• Health Advisors warn about community
• Threats air pollution, epidemics
• Tobacco control programs
• Nutrition information
• Teenage pregnancy
• STDs
• Violence

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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

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Appraise patients of health risk factors and
methods of reduction

• Several factors increase a persons 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.

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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 womans chance of dying
  after a heart attack is greater than a mans, and
  heart disease is the leading cause of death in
  women.