Better Nurse Patient Education Could Lead to Better Patient Satisfaction.
The article, “Patient education improved satisfaction after surgery for ankle fracture”, by Mayich D. states
“The researchers analyzed 40 patients who had operative treatment for ankle fractures and were randomized to either an enhanced information group that received handouts with information from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons covering postoperative ankle fracture treatment and a pamphlet outlining standard physiotherapy at the institution or a standard group that did not receive the handouts.”
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Nurse Patient Education has shown improvement in ankle surgeries. It might go without saying that a nurse educator could help improvement other areas in the medical field. Because truth be told, the more we know about a medical procedure the more comfortable we are going to be about having it performed on us.
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