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Volume 11, Number 2, pages 18 - 24
Meeting the challenges of writing effective patient print material
Petula Wong, RN, BScN, MEd
Abstract
End stage renal disease patients and families need ongoing education to help them cope and adapt to their illness. As nephrology nurses, you would use patient print material as a tool in your comprehensive patient teaching program. Print material allows the patient or family member to refer to learned material at any time after the formal teaching session.
Developing effective print material can be daunting, but if you follow this article's stepwise approach, it can be rather simple. This article will discuss steps you can take to ensure the content is relevant to your intended audience, how to arrange the content to captivate readers' attention, how to organize the content to make it easier for the reader to read. The readers are then likely to memorize the material.
Author Affiliation(s): Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.