Contact Patricia Morrill, a Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA) to speak at your next community event.
Topic: How to be a Patient Advocate for Yourself and Your Loved Ones
Advocacy involves:
- taking control of your healthcare
- making your own decisions
- saying “no” or “not now” to extra tests if questionable
- focusing on coordination of care between healthcare providers
- coordinating your own care
- being a partner with providers
Learn how to COMMUNICATE: Speak up and ask questions to make sure you understand.
Learn how to RELATE: Build relationships and make sure others understand your wishes.
Learn how to ENGAGE: Elevate yourself as a partner in care; respectfully seek information.
Learn how to DECIDE: Make decisions about your healthcare while being fully informed.
Patricia raises awareness and encourages individuals to elevate their role as patient to partner in care.
This book equips readers with a 360-view: patients, families, physicians, workforce, leaders and culture. Ideal for team training purposes in healthcare organizations and clinical training institutions, it gives a personal and professional view of the impact of preventable medical harm, a system-wide problem. Patricia details her Mother’s preventable harm from surgical infection and ultimate death in the first section of the book followed by discussion questions and instruction on a 10-step approach, Process Improvement Strategy Deployment.