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Teaching parents and children about ostomy care takes more than straightforward instruction because this form of surgery is an emotional issue, says Marie Oren, RN, BSN, CWOCN, a wound, ostomy, continence nurse at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta.
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The Health Care Education Association has schedule its sixth annual Health Care Education Associations Institute on Sept. 25-27 at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC.
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Building awareness of the signs and symptoms for ovarian cancer is the mission of The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition based in Boca Raton, FL. While other organizations raise money for research, the coalition uses its funds to educate the general public and physicians.
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After participating in Health Care Education Week last year, staff in the Patient, Family, and Community Education Department at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, decided to participate again this November.
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While medical errors are not a new phenomenon, they suddenly are becoming high profile due to government reports, media coverage, and standards to improve patient safety by such accrediting agencies as the Oakbrook Terrace, IL-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Barb Petersen, RN, BSN, is patient education coordinator at Great Plains Regional Medical Center, a 116-bed facility in North Platte, NE. While meeting a variety of patient needs, she says a passion for learning keeps her job fresh.
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During Health Care Education Week at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, Benjamin T. Laroya, RN, BSN, OCN, patient and family education coordinator, assembled a list of teaching tips to handout to staff who came by the display on patient education.
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Before creating a tool to help patients and their families understand their roles in patient safety, Cezanne Garcia, MPH, CHES, manager of patient and family education Services at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, conducted a literature search to determine what information was available.
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The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle is in no hurry to implement a tool an ad hoc committee created to teach patients their role in safety issues. It is running it through a series of pre-tests before implementing it housewide.
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