our patient education resource should include the following: The Drug Ketamine
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our patient education resource should include the following: The Drug Ketamine
What it is used for: treatment for particular symptoms, diagnoses that it is commonly prescribed for
Information about the benefits and the risks of this particular drug or class of drugs; include common as well as serious side effects
How to administer the drug safely
Information about any patient monitoring that is needed (blood work, etc.)
Any other information you feel a patient needs to know.
Requirements of Part 1: The Product
Part 1: The Product
Determine a format and context in which such a patient health information resource could be used. Will it be a leaflet distributed during a primary care visit? A short video or web-based text that is available in the Patient Portal? An infographic or flyer or poster that can be posted on the wall of a treatment room or on a website, etc?
Prepare your product, taking into consideration guidelines for plain languageLinks to an external site. in communication. “Plain language” means that the writing is clear and effective, written on a 3rd to 5th grade level to accommodate all levels of literacy. It does not mean that it is overly simplified or condescending. It should be well-written, organized, and easy to skim to pick up the main points.
You should be prepared to prove that your text is written at a 3rd to 5th grade level by running it through a readability tool. See Part 2 – Readability Score and References – for more information.
Your product must be ready to use, meaning that if it is a video, you should submit the completed video. If it is an infographic, you should submit the final version of the infographic.
Tip: If you prepare your flyer in a program like Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, or Word, save it as a PDF so any special fonts or formatting are preserved.
Important: Your information in this product must be backed up by a minimum of three (3) studies or sources. Be sure to place appropriate in-text citations on your product. You will prepare an accompanying References pages as indicated below in Part 2.
Requirements for Part 2: Readability Scores and References
Technology to the Rescue!
Using one of the options below, prepare an APA-formatted paper that contains the readability evidence from either Option 1 or Option 2, plus a References page with citations for your sources.
To ensure the text of your Patient Education Resource is at a reading level of 3rd to 5th grade, you can use one of two options.
Option 1: Write the text using your own human brain. Use a readability score tool to calculate the reading level of your text. Revise your text as needed until you reach the required level of 3rd to 5th grade. Take screen shots or print the results of the readability score. A good readability tool to use is the Automatic Readability Consensus CheckerLinks to an external site., which runs the text through 8 different readability scales and renders a judgement. It can be a bit cumbersome to print, so you might find it easier to screen-shot a few of the results (the Fleisch-Kincaid Grade Level is an industry standard) and use those in your paper.
For Option 1, your paper should reference the website or tool used to calculate readability, the text you entered into the calculator, and the results. See example. Be sure to include a citation for the readability tool/website in your References. See example of Option 1.Download See example of Option 1.
Option 2: Write the text using your own human brain, and then ask Chat GPT or a similar AI tool to rewrite it for brevity and grade level. Ask the AI tool to also run a readability score. For this option, you should provide a complete chat transcriipt from the AI tool you used. Because it is difficult to format a chat transcriipt in APA, the only items you need to format in APA are the title of the paper, page numbers, and the References page. Be sure to include a citation for the AI tool in your References.