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 (hand-offs)
- 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 DECIDE: Make decisions about your healthcare while being fully informed.
In one hour, 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.