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I worked at a hospital with Krames on Demand which I loved, I worked at a hospital with our own patient educator just call her up and she does the teaching and brings the handouts. I am big on educating my patients so they don't end up here again. I work on a pediatric floor and the hospital that i work at has no patient education access anywhere. I am forced to go online to find anything and most of the information goes over the parents' head. does anyone know a free patient education website to print out handouts.
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Pedi RN
I work in Home Health. No longer a road warrior, have been in charge of providing patient education materials for our road nurses for the past year. I spend a LOT of time online searching for the best available patient education handouts to send out to the home.
Here are a few links to those which I have found to be not only informative, but easy to read and understand:
Interactive Health Tutorials: MedlinePlus ... click on the condition or subject of your choice and it will bring up a page which has several options.. click on the "text summary" option and voila! A lovely, pdf format printable handout. Here is a link as an example of what it looks like: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the Patient Education Institute
then THIS is what you'll see after choosing "text summary":
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/abdominalaorticaneurysm/vs049103.pdf
I use these a lot, and there are quite a few to choose from. Some do not have the text summary version, but most do.
For those of you in HH or geriatrics, this site has some awesome printable materials as well : NIHSeniorHealth Home Page
This site, too, is a good one (once open click on "publications") http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication
Lots of good material there.. love their "Age Page" handouts.
I will copy some more saved links I have at work and try to include them here this week.. I've found some really nice material out there, including Hispanic versions ! :)
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Abso-freakin-lutely!!