My project is nearing up the finish line. I am looking for diabetes patient education handouts that are suitable for health illiterate patients. I have spent much of my time at the Park Center with patients inpatient and outpatient to get a sense for what kind of population I am dealing with. When I was searching online for diabetes patient handouts, I found several that I liked parts of or several that I kind of liked but they costed money. I was really struggling to find something that I felt would really benefit Dr. Williams at the Park Center and her patients. As I was spending my last minutes before I called it a night, I had tried every combination possible in the Google search engine and came across a wonderful website containing nearly 100 patient handouts that are applicable for diabetic patients. The handouts were each only a page long and had cartoons showing exactly what each topic was about. I felt that these were the perfect handouts, however, they have a $25 fee per handout. I initially presented the handouts to Dr. Williams to see if she liked them and when she did I told her about the fee and was going to try to help find funding. Dr. Williams said that she is willing to pay the one time fee of $25 because she thinks that the information presented is well worth the money. Looking forward in my project, I will most likely just be working on my presentation and possibly looking into the website to see if they have similar handouts for other disease states.
- Kadie
- Kadie