Self-Management:
Train Providers and Other Key Staff on How to Help Patients with Self-Management Goals
- Select a self-management curriculum that has been tested and found effective.
- Train everyone on the health care team (including volunteers and lay health workers), using a skilled trainer, if possible.
- Define tasks and roles—e.g., who will set the action plan, who will do follow-up, who will fill out the assessment form—and assign them.
- Test the self-management tool with one provider and team and several patients. Start on a small scale. Let patient concerns lead discussions.
- Provide follow-up education for providers. Review the self-management tool and gradually add layers of competence and complexity.
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