Scenario
Alma Faulkenberger is an 85-year-old female outpatient sitting in the waiting room awaiting an invasive pelvic procedure. The health care professional who will assist in her procedure enters the room and calls "Alma." There is no reply so the professional retreats to the work area. Fifteen minutes later the professional returns and calls "Alma Frankenberg." Still no reply, so he leaves again. Another 15 minutes pass and the professional approaches Alma and shouts in her ear, "Are you Al..
Week 1 - Homework: Patient Compliance and Patient Education
Write a short (50-100-word) paragraph response for each question. This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.
Define patient compliance and explain its importance in your field.
Identify the health care professionals' role in compliance and give examples of ways in which the health care professional may actually contribute to noncompliance.
Compare compliance and collaboration.
Compare and contrast pa..
Week 2 - Discussion Question 1
Sister Mary is a patient in Level 2 Emergency Department. She must have a neural examination, physical assessment, radiographs of her facial bones, and a computed tomography scan of the head. Taking into consideration that she is a Roman Catholic nun, what would be the ideal course of patient education as this woman progresses from department to department?
Week 2 - Discussion Question 2
What possible reservations could a health care professional have in workin..
Week 3 - Discussion Question 1
Discuss a patient of another culture. How can the health care professional communicate in presenting patient education? Consider language, family, cultural differences, and method of communication.
Week 3 - Discussion Question 2
Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation...
Week 4 - Discussion Question 1
How has the patient's control over his own health care changed?
Week 4 - Discussion Question 2
What part does negotiation play in patient education?..
Week 5 - Discussion Question 1
Using the NIH website, how would you describe CAM and the typical person who uses CAM?
Week 5 - Discussion Question 2
What are the percentages of people using CAM with prayer and those who do not?..