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In this section, patient teaching tools are available for your everyday professional needs. Click on the topic of your choice to download an easily printable one-page document. Then, put your patient at ease with the presentation of a tactile resource that is convenient, useful and, above all, reassuring. A small token, yes, but one that can provide extraordinary benefits.
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Written by THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION
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 Children are our nation’s greatest assets and the future leaders of tomorrow. However, year after year, hundreds of them are injured and killed in crashes on our nation’s highways. Far too many of these casualties are due to improperly installing children’s restraints or not using them altogether.
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Written by CONNIE SUNDERHAUS, RN-BC, CCM
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High blood glucose can be a sign of diabetes or pre-diabetes. Your doctor will work to make a diagnosis by doing several blood tests and a full examination. In either case, what does this mean? This page will give you a short overview of diabetes, in addition to resources where you can find more extensive information that will ...
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Written by CONNIE SUNDERHAUS, RN-BC, CCM
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 If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, there are several different groups you may fall into. You may have just found out that your blood pressure is high, or you have had high blood pressure but have never been treated for it. On the other hand, you may have had high blood pressure, but it is not high all of the time and you have not been taking medicine or seen your doctor lately. If your blood pressure is higher than 130/80 you could have hypertension, and seeing your doctor and being a part of a treatment plan is very important to your health.
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Written by Anne Llewellyn
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The diagnosis of a chronic disease like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a life-changing event that can cause anxiety, feelings of isolation and depression. RA is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis. The good news is that treatments for RA have dramatically improved, and when started early they can reduce the long-term effects of the disease. It is important to work with your doctor and other members of the health care team to ensure that you are using the most appropriate treatment. Yet, it is just as important to consider some changes you can make to limit the impact of RA on your life. Here are some tips for you to consider...
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Written by Anne Llewellyn
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Pain is associated with many injuries and diseases, and is sometimes the disease itself. Persistent pain can interfere with your enjoyment of life. It can make it hard to sleep, work, socialize with friends and family, and accomplish everyday tasks. Chronic pain may be part of your life, but it is not who you are. Managing your pain is an important step toward taking back your life and ensuring that pain does not control you. Living with chronic pain requires changing the way you think about your health care and your life. Good communication with your healthcare providers is vital to getting the help you need to live well in spite of your pain. We hope these 10 Steps can help you move from patient to person.
STEP 1: Accept the Pain Learn all you can about your physical condition. Understand that there may be no current cure for your condition, but there are treatments and support programs to help you accept the fact of pain in your life ...
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Written by Anne Llewellyn
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A tough disease — with a high rate of treatment success
Depression is a disease that does not discriminate between race, gender, income or age. Depression is an illness and not merely a “feeling.” It can cause sorrow for individuals, families and society as a whole if it is left untreated. Doctors and healthcare professionals are learning more about depression every day, including how to recognize it and how to treat it.
Some types of depression run in families. Other times, someone may experience depression after a stressful situation or trauma, such as the loss of...
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Written by Anne Llewellyn
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Cancer is such a tough disease that the strength of the drugs needed to treat it can result in serious side effects. Chemotherapy (or “chemo,” as it is often called) is a method of cancer treatment that uses very strong drugs to eradicate, or kill, cancer cells. Chemo can be taken or administered in a variety of ways — through an injection into the muscle or an IV into the bloodstream, through a cream applied to the skin or through a pill, capsule or liquid that the patient swallows.
There are two main reasons why patients taking chemo suffer from side effects. The first reason is that chemo drugs are extremely strong. The second is that, though they are meant to kill cancer cells alone, chemo drugs travel throughout the body and affect healthy cells as well.
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