Health confidence: a novel approach to patient education to reduce readmissions

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Learning Objectives
Evaluate the needs assessment completed to identify the gaps in patient education from the patients perspective.
Describe the journey to developing the program and roles and functions of all the team members involved in the interactive patient education experience.
Identify through actual case studies how the team manages the collaboration and includes all members of the inter-professional team including the patients and their families, to address educational gaps and increase patient health confidence in managing their chronic conditions independently post discharge; contributing to decrease in utilization, readmissions and length of stay.
Principle 1: place the public interest above their own at all times.
Principle 4: act with integrity and fidelity with clients and others.
Principle 5: maintain their competency at a level that ensures their clients will receive the highest quality of service