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GCU|HLT 306V WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 2, OLDER ADULTS PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES

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1 Running head: PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES Older Adults Patient Education Issues Essay and Interview Austin Hargrove Grand Canyon University HLT 306v This study source was downloaded by 100000831988016 from CourseHero.com on 05-02-2022 05:42:20 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/56194260/Older-Adults-Patient-Education-Issues-Essay-and-Interviewdocx/ 2 PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES Older Adults Patient Education Issues Essay and Interview There has been a major shift in healthcare to include the patient in all facets of care, from admission to discharge and everywhere in-between. In the past, there was no collaboration between the patient and healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals decided the best method of teaching, usually not dedicated specifically to the individual patient, and the patient was to understand everything that was being told to them and to follow what the healthcare professionals determined for the to do without question, because to question would be considered non-compliant. Since I have been in healthcare, there has been a revolution healthcare, patientcentered healthcare. “Health professional’s fostering more patient-centered teaching to enhance patient compliance and promote patient satisfaction” (Falvo, 2011, p. 222). By including patients, and having them deciding factors in their own health, this increases patient satisfaction as well as facilitates patients adherence to medical treatment outside of the hospital setting. “It is a formidable challenge to the health care providers to teach elderly patients due to the barriers that come with old age like sensory changes, mental changes and chronic diseases” (Falvo, 2011). Tailoring our education based on each individual patient is an idea that healthcare workers had to adapt to, but with this change, came great leaps between the patient-healthcare worker relationship. This author chose to interview Stephen Ochs, my families neighbor, who I grew up next door too for decades before becoming a travel nurse in 2011, and ultimately settling in California in 2014. Steve is an 82 year old male, who has a history or cardiac related events including CAD with multiple stents, a four vessel coronary artery bypass grafting in 2000, and recently a stay at the local hospital for near syncopal episode, where he was found to have complete heart This study source was downloaded by 100000831988016 from CourseHero.com on 05-02-2022 05:42:20 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/56194260/Older-Adults-Patient-Education-Issues-Essay-and-Interviewdocx/ 3 PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES block requiring the implantation of a dual chamber pacemaker. Mr. Ochs had been home for nearly two weeks when this interview was conducted over the phone. Question used were provided by essay syballus. Did a patient education representative give you instructions on how to care for yourself after your procedure and hospital stay? Mr. Ochs stated that he received “a whole lot” of post procedure and discharge instruction. He has post procedure instructions by the recovery nurse on what he can and cannot do with his left arm, due to the procedure. “They explained to me that I cannot lift my left arm above my shoulder for weeks, because it can pull the leads out and I’ll have to go through all this bulls**t again” (Stephen Ochs, personal c

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