Redesigning patient education materials: one home care agency's approach.
Providing effective patient education material is a continuous challenge for all nurses. Developing patient education materials that address the myriad variations in intravenous therapy practice is particularly challenging. For patient education materials to be useful, especially on a national basis, they must be specific enough to be meaningful, yet generic. When designing patient education materials, a variety of issues including content, design, time, and budget must be considered. In this article, the author offers an overview of the design and materials testing process as experienced by one home care agency.
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D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D013664:Teaching Materials