Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id UAA19832; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:24:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:24:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1c.104395d.25e4525b@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: G4DNeri@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2215] Re: It's a control issue X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 67 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: OR In a message dated 02/22/2000 2:21:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, pennyn@hotmail.com writes: << As a healthcare provider for the past 25 years and chair of my hospital's patient education committee, I can tell you we have everything to gain by educating our patients! Informed patients make better decisions, comply better with prescribed treatment, and especially in today's managed care marketplace, make better utilization choices (e.g.; not using the ER as their primary care physician). Informed, educated patients have less anxiety and are less adversarial with their care providers. So, it behooves ALL of us to do everything we can to help our patients understand what is up with their health. >> Yes.....I totally agree with all of the above. I hate to be a pest, but do you have any journal references for this data? I intuitively know all of this to be true to one extent or another, and have read some of this somewhere . But I'd like to use these concepts to justify some of my professional activities for grant funding and other purposes, and specific references would be very helpful, if you happen to have them. If not......I guess I'll be off to search Medline and Cinahl and whatever other databases I can find for doing lit searches. Thanks so much, Donna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donna Bain Neri, MSN, FNP-C Family & Community Health Nurse Practitioner Healing Touch Practitioner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Clinical Consultant & Health Educator Rural Health Outreach Program Nelson County, Virginia, USA W: (804) 263-4858 Fax: (804) 263-4160 H: (804) 295-1245 g4dneri@aol.com or rhopdn@ceva.net
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