Patient education

Authors

Judy Mullan, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

38311

Publication Details

Mullan, J. (2011). Patient education. In K. A. Curtis & C. Ramsden (Eds.), Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics (pp. 129-140). Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.

Abstract

Patient education is an integral part of the practice of all health professionals. To aspire to professionalism requires the individual to obtain and maintain a body of skills and knowledge that they can profess to the world at large. Patient education is a primary healthcare role in which nurses and other healthcare professionals disseminate their knowledge to the community.