Abstract

Patient education ensures that healthcare team is working together on patients’ individual medication plan, in conjunction with the rest of treatment, is vital to your recovery. Medication management is part of every patient’s plan of care. On an initial visit a clinician completes comprehensive medication reconciliation. However, education is provided to every patient based on each medication the patient is prescribed. This includes its purpose, how and when to take it and how much of the medication to take. Medication reconciliation ensures that every possible side effect and interaction will be taken care that patients’ medications could possibly cause. Patients and caregivers are instructed symptoms that need to be reported to the physician based on the medication side effects and possible interactions with other medications/food.

Purpose of the Study: Education may be provided by any healthcare professional who has undertaken appropriate training education, education on patient communication and education is usually included in the healthcare professional’s training. Health education is also a tool used by managed care plans, and may include both general preventive education or health promotion and disease or condition specific education. Important elements of patient education are skill building and responsibility: patients need to know when, how, and why they need to make a lifestyle change. Group effort is equally important: each member of the patient’s health care team needs to be involved.

Scope of the Study: There are many areas where patient education can improve the outcomes of treatment. For example, in patients with amputations, patient education has been shown to be effective when approached from all angles by the healthcare team (nurse, primary care physician, prosthetist, physical therapist, occupational therapist etc.). Preoperative patient education helped patients with their decision-making process by informing them of factors related to pain, limb loss, and functional restriction faced after amputation. In arthritic patients, education was found to be administered through three methods, including individual face to face meetings with healthcare professionals, patient groups, and online support programs. Both age related and rheumatoid arthritis, patient education has been shown as an effective non-pharmacological treatment.

Methodology: About the article’s concern, the basic principles of drug education are presented with the underlying premise that these principles and strategies are applicable to any type of drug use. Although information about, and inherent problems resulting from, specific types of drug taking might vary from drug to drug or among reasons for use, the fundamental approach to educating people and fostering changes in drug use are the same. Various patient education programs are followed, mainly covering areas of rational prescribing, counseling, compliance and vigilance. The realization of patient education necessity demanded literature search from the arena of patient dealings. Journals, newsletters, magazine and program briefings on patient education thoroughly observed and reviewed.

Findings: Most societies are in great need of learning more rational and appropriate uses of all types of drugs and of Advanced Nursing & Patient Care International Journal https://chembiopublishers.com/ANPCIJ/ Submit Manuscript @ https://chembiopublishers.com/submit-manuscript.php 2 gaining control over the drug products of their own technology. Humans have learned how to extract and synthesize drug products, yet humans have not learned fully how to use these products in an optimal manner. The primary importance of drug education is its benefit to the drug user (patient/consumer); such education can improve the appropriateness of drug taking behaviors to achieve optimal health and well-being. At the center of any educational effort is the provision of drug information, the strategy with which pharmacists and pharmacy students are most familiar. In today’s highly complex, technological world, the availability of current and precise information allows one to understand, to make better choices, and to prevent or solve problems.

Limitations of the Study: Many approaches have been developed for designing drug information and drug education programs in medical settings and many of these are described in various articles mostly on drug abuse. The majority of the examples in this article, therefore, exclude realm of drug abuse prevention. These techniques and strategies, and their basic principles, are also applicable to educating patients about medicines or providing drug education programs in any context. It is important to realize that, conversely, ideas, strategies, and programs from the field of patient drug education can be relevant to the development of programs on the nonmedical use of drugs, and some examples of this broader view of drug education are provided.

Practical Implication of the Study: Most pharmacists are aware of the important problems that potentially can occur with the appropriate use of prescription medications, such as adverse reactions and drug interactions. Many pharmacists also are knowledgeable about potential problems inherent in self-medication with a nonprescription drug, though they probably are less familiar with the use of herbal remedies and homeopathic medications in the same context. Few pharmacists, however, are aware of potential problems that can arise with social-recreational drug use. Regardless of the situation, the problem of poisoning or overdose by a drug should be delegated to poison-control centers and hospital emergency rooms. The individual pharmacist, particularly one working in a community setting, may not feel capable of consulting or educating a particular drug consumer in these problem areas.

Social Impact of The Study: Drug use occurs in virtually every society and culture. Whether the use of a particular drug is for a medical or a nonmedical reason, problems resulting from use often arise. Preventing drug use problems is a major concern of most societies, and it usually is highlighted when specific outbreaks of problems or inappropriate use occur. As pharmacy is the profession to which the control of drugs is attributed, it should be involved intimately with those activities aimed at preventing or reducing drug use problems. In fact, the pharmaceutical profession should be providing the leadership and directing the research in this area. It is unfortunate that, on the whole, pharmacy has been lacking in its social responsibility for the chemical substances it develops, promotes, and dispenses.