This customizable document, Patient Education Process, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

Health care organizations around the world utilize MCN’s compliant ready templates and workflow process tools to help them meet the latest changes in regulations and standards.

Here is some sample content from Patient Education Process:

	PURPOSE: To provide guidelines for specific instruction and information to patients and their families and caregivers. POLICY: The assessed needs of the patient, family or caregiver will determine the scope of teaching and the medical plan of care. Education will be the responsibility of each clinician and will focus on, as appropriate: Facilitating the patient, family or caregiver's understanding of the health status, healthcare options and consequences of options Encouraging patient participation in decision-making about healthcare options Increasing patient, family or caregiver...
Second excerpt:
	...The level of patient, family and caregiver knowledge related to the diagnoses, plan of care, required activities, lifestyle changes, etc. The ability and readiness of the patient, family or caregiver to learn Cultural and religious practices that might affect learning Emotional barriers that might affect learning Learning desire and motivation Physical, cognitive limitations, communication and language barriers to learning Hospice uses assessments as the basis for planning patient,...