Home Health Teaching Guides-HELP!!

Youcan print out almost any health topic from government's national library of medicine: medline plus


nih just started site geared to seniors with larger fonts + video's: http://nihseniorhealth.gov/


have you checked our patient education forum ???? ....has lots of helpful links.


peds info:
health information: patient handouts/teaching sheets


Advance for nursing: patient handouts for nurses spanish patient handouts


[h=3]Low-Literacy Handouts in English -from OHSU Library[/h] MedlinePlus - Easy-to-Read
Lists MedlinePlus health topics that are in easy-to-read form.


National Diabetes Information Clearing House - Easy-to-Read Publications
A set of easy-to-read documents about diabetes in English and Spanish.


National Digestive Diseases Information Clearing House - Easy-to-Read Publications
A set of easy-to-read documents about digestive diseases in English and Spanish.


National Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse - Easy-to-Read Publications
A set of easy-to-read documents about kidney and urologic diseases in English and Spanish.


OHSU/Hood River Community Health Outreach Project: Pamphlets in Spanish/English Produced by Project Participants
Low-literacy pamphlets in Spanish and English produced by project participants.

Great resources !!! Thank You !!!

Here is one with several useful things on Diabetes....
Diabetes Education and Research Center - Teaching Materials

Thank you very much lpn181,my first patient is diabetic,I will give her some of this material about diabetes.

These are great resources thanks!!!

Have you tried the ASPEN TEACHING guides? I have the hard copy from an agency I used to work for and I make extra copies from that book.

Kudos to all with these helpful links and beaucoup kudos to NrsKaren for the link to NIH Senior Health ! Thanx to her I have now found the Holy Grail of senior HH teaching materials !!!

In particular, I LOVE the large, bold type AND the built in "quizzes".... very useful for reaching required goals of teaching.. having our patients be able to answer questions relating to their condition. Medicare auditors do ask the patients questions like these when they go into the homes. Teaching is not enough... they want to know if the patients are learning something. With these simple, yet effective built in mini-quizzes, this facilitates the nurse's job tremendoulsly. At the end of the visit, the nurse can document the teaching provided and that "patient was able to name 1-2 causes of home falls", ie., or "was able to name 2-3 benefits of lowering cholesterol".... etc.

I LOVE it !

I am now in charge of providing education/teaching packets for our road nurses.. to save them time in the mornings before going out. I have file cabinets full of categorized teachings, but this was EXACTLY what I was looking for !!! THANK YOU !!!

Please keep the good links coming... for free, web based printable teaching guides for HH patients. Will be checking back here often for any new or updated material. Will be looking into the Spanish teaching materials tomorrow, as this will be a huge benefit to us as well.

Again, keep up the good work, and Thank You !

I have found some truly AWSOME websites which provide great teaching materials to download, PDF or regular web version, and most of these also include spanish translations.

National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Uptodate.com, Medlineplus.gov and the CDC website, also had some great teaching materials ! Most of them are in easy-to-read large print, especially nice for our elderly patients.

As you learn to navigate the sites and the tab scroll bars on the left, you will find an absolute wealth of teaching materials for your HH patients !!!

Here's a really good link for some WONDERFUL print friendly patient tutorials !

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials

The ones that have the X-Plain tutorials are really, really good. You'll have to click on the "text summary" tab at the top for these, then print. Love that they are easy for our patients to read, yet well explained, and thorough.