HELP!! patient teaching

Here is a link to the Irritable Bowel Syndrome tutorial for consumers on the Medline Plus website:

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/irritablebowelsyndrome/htm/index.htm

There are lots of other tutorials about different diseases on their website as well. If you look at a couple of them you will see how these teaching tools are organized. It will help give you an idea of how to organize your patient teaching project. Most large hospitals that have websites also have health libraries with consumer information on them that have this same kind of set: provide patient teaching about major illnesses. All you have to do is link into them and look at how they present the information. Here's a few for you to look at:

• http://www.upmc.com/HealthManagement/ManagingYourHealth/HealthReference/Diseases/?chunkiid=11755
  
• http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZX8KECW7C&sub_cat=196
  
• http://www.medicinenet.com/irritable_bowel_syndrome/article.htm
  
• http://www.webmd.com/ibs/default.htm
  
• http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ibs/index.htm

You also might want to check out the health education tools on this NIH webpage to see if there is something there you can use in your presentation:

• http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/HealthEducation/Interactive_Health_Education_Tools.htm