Element A: Support Self-Care Process
1. Free and Charitable Clinics are encouraged to provide educational resources to patients and families to educate about resources to assist in self-management as is appropriate for your practice.
• Resources will include materials such as smoking cessation, diabetes management, medication management, etc.
• Free and Charitable Clinics will develop a plan that is realistic for free clinic populations including the plan and goals for patients.
• Free and Charitable Clinics will provide self-management tools to record self-care results.
• These tools may include blood pressure records; weight records, medication records and/or other records relative to the patient’s disease process.
• Resources will include materials such as smoking cessation, diabetes management, medication management, etc.
• Free and Charitable Clinics will develop a plan that is realistic for free clinic populations including the plan and goals for patients.
• Free and Charitable Clinics will provide self-management tools to record self-care results.
• These tools may include blood pressure records; weight records, medication records and/or other records relative to the patient’s disease process.