Transforming Primary Care Practice and Education

Registered Nurses’ Patient Education in Everyday Primary Care Practice

Nurses' patient education is important for building patients' knowledge, understanding, and preparedness for self-management. The aim of this study was to explore the conditions for nurses' patient education work by focusing on managers' discourses about patient education provided by nurses. In 2012, data were derived from three focus group interviews with primary care managers. Critical discou...

Primary Care Practice Transformation

Challenges in primary care education.

Despite these grim statistics, more recent trends suggest an increase in medical student interest in primary care fields. In 2010, Family Medicine saw an increase in applicant numbers, filling more than 44% of an increased number of positions offered in the NRMP. Combined Medicine-Pediatrics programs saw a considerable increase in popularity among US senior medical students as well, filling 83%...

Community-based participatory action research: transforming multidisciplinary practice in primary health care.

OBJECTIVES Health care systems throughout the world are in the process of restructuring and reforming their health service delivery systems, reorienting themselves to a primary health care (PHC) model that uses multidisciplinary practice (MDP) teams to provide a range of coordinated, integrated services. This study explores the challenges of putting the MDP approach into practice in one communi...

Prolotherapy in primary care practice.

Prolotherapy is an injection-based complementary and alternative medical therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain. Prolotherapy techniques and injected solutions vary by condition, clinical severity, and practitioner preferences; over several treatment sessions, a fairly small volume of an irritant or sclerosing solution is injected at sites on painful ligament and tendon insertions and in adja...