What Is Prostate Cancer

Cancer that starts in the prostate is called prostate cancer. It can grow and spread beyond the prostate, threatening health and life. Here's what you need to know.

Staff Ed- Maximizing ​Your ​Teaching ​Moments

During each clinical encounter, there are moments that arise naturally as ideal "teaching moments." Here's a quick summary of how to apply the ideas to a typical patient encounter to build trust and compliance.

Using Patient Education Materials

Patient information extends your office visit beyond the few minutes you can spend face-to-face. You can increase compliance and cooperation even further by using patient education materials in ways that help patients learn and remember more of your advice.

Staff Ed: Understanding the Health Belief Model

How can you improve patient compliance? Clinical outcome data supports the 3 theories below as predictive models for behavior. The self-efficacy, health beliefs, and stages of change models can all be helpful in determining a patient’s readiness to change.

When You Have an Abnormal Pap Test

The Pap test is a screening test that checks for cell changes in the cervix, the opening of the uterus. In some cases, it checks for a virus that can cause cervical cancer. If your Pap results were abnormal, you may be worried. But there is no reason to panic. An abnormal Pap test result can mean many things.