Florida PA and Nurse Create Educational Tool
Since early 2009, Slava Makler, PA-C, BS, and Nadia Fakira, RN, BA, MA, have dedicated their time to improving patient care on the neurosurgical floor where they work at Florida Hospital in Orlando.
With the goal of inspiring passion and reigniting a love of learning in their colleagues, Makler and Fakira created an educational board that displays models and descriptions of the most common prodecures. The board, which now hangs in the hallway on the neurosurgical floor, was unveiled on Monday, November 2, 2009.
In conjunction with the educational board, Makler and Fakira have planned inservice lectures that will further educate caregivers on the basics of spinal surgery and review anatomy and neurological assessment. Additionally, the board provides inquiring patients with easy-to-understand, 3D models of the skeleton and the corresponding procedures.
"Our goal is to improve the patient care on our unit by sparking excitement and thirst for knowledge, which we hope our efforts will inspire," Makler says. "In addition, the board will be a wonderful patient education tool, which could be utilized by the entire medical team. Most of the patients I see post-op ask, 'What exactly was done to me?' Instead of drawing it on paper, now we can show the patients an actual model of their procedure."
Makler and Fakira began working on the educational board in early 2009.
Makler and Fakira begin mounting the educational board on the wall of the neurological floor at Florida Hospital in Orlando.
The board will serve to educate caregivers and patients about the most common neurological procedures.
What do you think? Would a resource like this prove useful in your facility?