ENHANCING PATIENT MOTIVATION TO CHANGE

Write a short (50-100-word) paragraph response for each question. This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

1. Define patient compliance and explain its importance in your field.

2. Identify the health care professionals’ role in compliance and give examples of ways in which the health care professional may actually contribute to noncompliance.

3. Compare compliance and collaboration.

4. Compare and contrast patient education in the past with that practiced today.

5. Explain the importance of professional commitment in developing patient education as a clinical skill.

6. Explain the three categories of learning and how they can be used in patient education.

7. List three problems that may arise in patient education and how they would be solved?

8. List some methods of documentation of patient education.