
This Course serves as a Guide to both the patient's relatives and friends as well as to hospital management and staff, bringing about awareness of all the different aspects involved in a healthy and speedy recovery of a patient, considering the hospital environment, surrounding staff, policies and procedures.
Foster vigilance during a loved one's hospital stay by balancing research-informed awareness of doctors, nurses, and nurse managers with clear communication and patient cooperation.
Stay vigilant during a loved one's hospital stay by cultivating alertness, attentiveness, and watchfulness. Engage with teams, social workers, and case managers to understand vital signs, discharge plans, and insurance.
Explore how changes in medicine administration, timing, and pharmacy availability affect patient comfort and outcomes during a loved one's hospital stay. Discuss dose differences, home medications, and insurance delays.
This Course is intended to aid those who have a loved one in the hospital in a practical and methodical manner. It thus focuses on vigilance as it relates to surveillance and interest in a healthy recovery of the patient by examining several aspects of hospital staff, patient and the environment namely: doctors, nurses, nurses aides, social workers, among others and the patient himself or herself and the loved one. The lessons include topics such as research, attentiveness, and watchfulness, intuition, requests to be made to doctors, nurses, nurse managers and nurse aides. They also cover areas of timings, schedules, shifts and administration, pharmacy and social services. Other topics include cooperation, communication and compliance with treatment. Examples of requests and other unique settings are also provided. The goal of the course is to provide a means for a health and fast recovery of a patient. The author used her medical background along with her research skills and personal experiences with friends and family visitations during hospital stay to create this Video Course. The Course also aims to reduce the stress and provide methods to counter the lack of knowledge with simple steps, based on each family and friend's personality. Finally, this course is also helpful for those in allied health studies and clinical and hospital administration setting.