IMPROVING PRE-DISCHARGE HEALTH EDUCATION ON MEDICATIONS ESPECIALLY PAINKILLER AND ANTIBIOTICS TO ORTHOPAEDIC PATIENTS AT BUTARE TEACHING HOSPITAL nagrary@gmail.com

 

IMPROVING PRE-DISCHARGE HEALTH EDUCATION ON MEDICATIONS ESPECIALLY PAINKILLER AND ANTIBIOTICS TO ORTHOPAEDIC PATIENTS AT BUTARE TEACHING HOSPITAL

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Rwanda

Oral or Poster

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health education as consisting of "consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health. Locally health education includes the communication of information concerning the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions impacting health, as well as individual risk factors risk behaviors, and use of the health care system.

Patients file audits were conducted in August, September and October /2022 on the orthopedic surgical unit to see if there was any pre-discharge health education documentation on medications especially painkiller and antibiotics in patient files

results n=10(33%) patients who did not receive pre-discharge health education on medications while n=20(67%) patients who received pre-discharge health education on medications. This audit was conducted because on post discharge appointments patients arriving with infected or dirty wound delay an appointment, infected implant which can cause serious complications like reoperation and septicaemia.

Based on the results where pre-discharge health education on medications goes up to 70% and the gap remains is 30%, let us work on it together we will win to arrive up to 100%. Only to put them in mind it is not difficult.