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
This LIVE AARC webcast is approved for 1.0 CRCE hour.
- Compare and contrast forces impacting health care and their relevance to patient education
- Provide a rationale for the value & use of patient education
- Identify the 4 components that comprise the patient education process
- Define patient education
- Provide strategies and techniques the RT should employ as a patient educator
- Distinguish teaching from learning and identify and discuss barriers to teaching and obstacles to learning
- Gain an appreciate for the role of the RT as a primary patient educator