Review the correct answers. Fold and mail your post-test to the ERC, Route 0469. You may give yourself ONE HOUR of inservice credit. Regardless of whether you work at UTMB in the hospital or one of the clinics, or which discipline you represent, if you have patient contact, then you are a patient educator. The patient and family are included in planning education.
Topics are individualized.
You have taught the patient about the safe and effective use of medications that they are to take at home. For inpatients, nursing staff teach the family about medications they are to take at home. This is documented on the Discharge Instructions Form. A copy is sent with the patient. The Pharmacy that fills the prescription, whether at UTMB or elsewhere, provides written information with each medication.