Wellness AcademyTeaching Patients to Manage a Chronic Condition
Turn a clinical plan into instructions a patient can follow on a difficult week.
Who this is for
- Nurses and nurse educators
- Pharmacists
- Care coordinators
Prerequisites: Current or recent patient-facing practice.
What you will be able to do
- 01
Reduce a care plan to the three things that matter this week
- 02
Check understanding without quizzing
- 03
Plan for the predictable failure points
- 04
Write patient materials at an accessible reading level
Module preview
- 01
Orient: the week after the appointment
Where plans break down.
- 02
Learn: teach-back and plain language
Demonstrations with annotated transcripts.
- 03
Notice: literacy, access, and load
Case observation across patient contexts.
- 04
Practice: rewrite a real care plan
Applied task with rubric feedback.
- 05
Demonstrate: patient teaching session
Assessed performance task.
Practice and assessment
Two rubric-reviewed submissions using materials from your own setting.
Instructor
Elena Ortiz, RN, MSN
Faculty, patient education
Nurse educator specializing in self-management support for diabetes and heart failure.
Credential
Certificate of completion. Continuing education credit is not currently offered for this course.