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    Patient education : you can do it! / Ginger Kanzer-Lewis.

    • Title:Patient education : you can do it! / Ginger Kanzer-Lewis.
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    • Author/Creator:Kanzer-Lewis, Ginger, 1944-
    • Published/Created:Alexandria, Va. : American Diabetes Association, ©2003.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Patient education.
      Diabetes--Treatment.
    • Medical Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.
      Patient Education as Topic--methods.
    • Description:xv, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
    • Summary:Diabetes education specialist Ginger Kanzer-Lewis, RN, BC, EdM, CDE, has been asked time and again to write a book based on her successful patient education workshops. Ginger has been an educator and director of patient education in hospitals and clinics and a consultant for health care agencies across the nation as well as past president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. She has spent decades developing and implementing patient education programs in health care facilities and teaching health care professionals how to develop and conduct patient education. Her firm, GKL Associates, conducts programs nationally and internationally in diabetes, patient and adult education, motivation, and various subjects in health care management. It is her drama degree from the School of Performing Arts in New York that makes her such a dynamic speaker and educator. Book jacket.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-133).
    • ISBN:1580401627 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Patient Education Defined
      2. Why Do Patient Education?
      3. Adult Learner
      4. Do-Know-Deficit
      5. Setting Goals and Objectives
      6. How to Motivate People to Learn
      7. Evaluation Methodology
      8. Creative Teaching Techniques
      9. Curriculum Development and Developing Lesson Plans
      10. Developing an Education Program
      11. Teaching Health Care Professionals to Teach
      12. Building a Patient Education Environment and the New Team
      13. Marketing Your Program and Finding Funding
      14. Patient's Perspective
      15. Final Word - or Two.
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