Patient and Community Education Program with Handout (Diabetes)

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Intervention: Patient and Community Education Program with Handout (Diabetes)
Summary of Intervention and Implementation
The purpose of this project was to educate the in-patients and the community people
about the Diabetes and its causes, symptoms, risk factors and precautions through Patient
Education and Handout. For this an education or training plan was developed in which the both
visual presentation will be shown and handouts will be distributed to both the in-patients and
local community people.
Target population of this project was the in-patients who are suffering from various
physical conditions due to diabetes and the local community people where the prevalence of
diabetes is very high. The community people include the pre-patients who were already treated
for comorbid factors of diabetic disorders and vulnerable people who have higher risk to suffer
from Diabetes due to obesity.
As initiation I communicated with my co-workers and asked them to review my plan and
provide feedback about attainability and relevancy. After collecting feedback and making some
changes in the plan, a written proposal was presented to the management board of the healthcare
center. The proposal was consist of the planning, timeline, budget and required human resources.
In order to develop a team a convenient sampling procedure has been used where among my
coworkers interest individual could join voluntarily (Miller, 2016).
Through the inter-professional collaboration and communication it has been found that a
large number of healthcare or social care worker believe that education program can helpful to
control the emergency or adverse situations for the comorbidity associated with diabetes. It has
been also found that through team work with proper interpersonal communication and