This presentation will identify the barriers in communicating with patients and the elements necessary for effective education and positive patient outcomes.
Presented by William F. Galvin, MSEd, RRT, CPFT, AE-C, FAARC
Approved for 1.0 CRCE hour
Original Webcast Date April 25, 2017
**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
- Compare and contrast forces impacting health care and their relevance to patient education
- Provide a rationale for the value & use of patient education
- Define patient education
- Identify the 4 components that comprise the patient education process
- Distinguish teaching from learning and identify and discuss barriers to teaching and obstacles to learning
- Provide strategies and techniques the RT should employ as a patient educator
- Gain an appreciation for the role of the RT as a primary patient educator