title: From idea to implementation: creation of an educational picture book for radiation therapy patients.
abstract: Patient education is an integral part of the cancer patient's journey. Radiation therapists strive to provide timely, effective, and evidence-based information on care processes, side effects, and side effect management treatment strategies. Patient satisfaction surveys in health-care settings can guide new interventions and strategies to provide the right education to patients at the right time. Courses offered in adult education and patient education to practicing health-care providers allow for a unique opportunity to look at the current provision of health-care education to patients. This paper explores the development and implementation of a new visual aid for radiation therapy patients in an acute health-care setting with a diversity of languages spoken using principles of adult education.
authors.affiliation: Odette Cancer Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada, kari.osmar@sunnybrook.ca.
authors.forename: Kari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Osmar
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001878:Books, Illustrated; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000193:education*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011878:Radiotherapy