Question

You are taking care of an 80 African-American year old male patient in a medical surgical unit who was hospitalized with congestive heart failure. He is being discharged with multiple medications and home health care. Describe the steps you would take to provide patient education including cultural considerations. Describe how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your education on the scenario .

Answer 1

Answer: It is important to provide patient education, some of the steps could be taken as:

• Providing cultural competence environment to the patient so that he may feel safe and comfortable to discuss his problems.
• Intervene about the language that can be easily understood by the patient.
• Try to have an effective communication with the patient.
• Encourage patient to adopt healthy lifestyle.
• Reduce the intake of fats, avoid smoking and alcohol consumption.
• The client should be explained carefully about the advantage of exercise.
• The client should indulge himself in mild exercise such as walking.
• Increase intake of omega 3 fatty acids.
• Use ethical consideration as well as gestures to explain things more clearly to the patients.

To evaluate the effectiveness of education, it is important to have a questionnaire with the patient. Intervening the understanding of the patient as well as encouraging him to ask questions.