Title
Patient education
RIS ID
38311
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.
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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.