How to Educate and Empower Your Patients - To Improve Outcomes, to Enable Self-Care, to Reduce Costs. A Point by Point Guide for Health Care Providers

If You Have Patients, This New Book is for You

Here is a point-by-point guide that is keenly insightful and immediately useful.
If you deal with patients in any way, this book is for you – doctors, nurses, therapists, dentists, counsellors, managers, advocates, and insurers. Written for the international scope of health care providers.
Inside you will find the keys to getting patients to partner with you for their care, resulting in great benefits.
This book is a concise but detailed guide to the art and science of educating patients well enough to empower them.
Get the best advice from a Patient Education Specialist who spent over 25 years educating patients.
Written clearly in plain language to demonstrate the approach to take when educating your patients.
Each chapter works as an independent unit, yet they all work together.
Contains multiple checklists that summarize key points, making implementation clear and simple.

Loring Gimbel was an English teacher who took on the challenge of educating patients at two large medical centers in Calgary, Canada for over 25 years. Since he knew how to communicate clearly and how to implement learning strategies, he succeeded in finding ways to empower patients with medical knowledge to help them effectively participate in their care.

He passionately believes that education is integral to health care since minds and bodies work in sync for healing. In this book, he concisely gives you his best insight on how to educate and achieve amazing results, from improving outcomes to creating efficiencies to save time and money. Patients and professionals can benefit exponentially.

In addition to specialising in patient education, Loring loves to travel so much that he has explored 49 American states and 64 countries! His adventures and experiences have given him insight into the best of life around the globe, as reflected in the international appeal of this book. He wishes you the real rewards of caring interaction, learning, educating, and healing for the utmost in wellness of mind and body.