Question

•What are the possible barriers that will arise when educating patients about the importance of treatment?

•How can thromboprophylaxis teaching be adjusted to each patient's level of education

•What forms of patient teaching will be most effective in helping the patient to have a better understanding of the importance of thromboprophylaxis treatment?

•What is the best way to make sure a standardized patient teaching is being adhered to by the physicians and nurses?

Answer 1

●Some of the of the possible barriers which could arise when educating patients about the importance of treatment are

• When patients lack the knowledge to understand about the treatment
• Lack of interest
• Linguistic problems
• Inadequate information and knowledge about the treatment
• Mentally challenged patients
• Cultural barriers
• Inadequate resources

●The teaching can be adjusted in the following way

• A simple and easy understanding source which are in form of picture, videos for very low to illiterate patients
• Two way communication and clarification of doubts to the patient. Here patient may hesitate to come out with the
• In high literate patient the doubts are at extreme and they gather information regarding the particular topic and participate in the health education

●Demonstration is the best form of teaching in the DVT prophylaxis because patients has to come across in how to use the stocking.

Teach them in the language they understand

Do not use medical terms rather use layman's term for easy understanding and following it

● The best way to make sure a standardized patient teaching is being adhered to by the physicians and nurses are

• Positive feedback from patients
• Active participation in the teaching program
• Deducting in the readmission due to thrombosis or its related conditions