Excellence Series: Patient Education Overview

Course overview

Effective patient education is a key to improvement of health outcomes but has limited coverage in healthcare literature. Multiple factors influence health information dissemination, starting from interprofessional communication to patient-centered communication. The nursing profession also plays a role in population health outcomes. Magnet designation, a public recognition given to healthcare institutions that demonstrate excellence in nursing practice has as the foundation, the provision of high-quality patient care. This course has the forces of magnetism as framework to identify healthcare trends, standards, and best practices in patient education that impact professional nursing practice and patient outcomes. The goal of this course is to update nursing professionals in the acute care setting with information regarding best practices in patient education.