Patient Compliance and Patient Education

Patient Compliance and Patient Education
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Patient Compliance and Patient Education
1. Define patient compliance and explain its importance in your field.
Patient compliance represents how the behavior of the patient, including aspects such as taking meals, implementing lifestyle modifications, and taking prescribed medications, matches with the provided healthcare advice (Mohiuddin, 2019). This concept is fundamental in nursing and healthcare because it influences the recovery rate of patients and contributes to the quality of overall care. Professionals find it easy to treat compliant patients because they experience minimal relapse or complications, unlike their non-compliant ones. As a result, they struggle to promote patient compliance to improve the quality of care and outcomes.
2. Identify the healthcare professionals' role in compliance and give examples of how the healthcare professional may contribute to non-compliance.
Healthcare professions are integral in empowering patients to participate in their care process actively. Butenko et al. (2017) indicate that they have a role in educating the patients to improve their understanding of the medications, behavioral or lifestyle changes, and other treatment-related details. They may also contribute to compliance by regularly reminding their patients about critical practices within the health facilities. As a result, when they fail to provide appropriate information or demonstrate negligence, it leads to non-compliance. Poor packaging of educational messages may also lead to similar outcomes.
3. Compare compliance and collaboration.
Compliance is a term that highlights adhering to professional advice that incorporates behavior and medication. It places the patient as a recipient of information they should follow (Mohiuddin, 2019). However, collaboration differs from compliance because it alludes to creating a healthy relationship between the patient and the healthcare professional to ensure they work together for desirable health outcomes.
4. Compare and contrast patient education in the past with today's practice.
Patient education is an...