Since healing is just as much mental as it is physical, join me over a cup of warm tea as I chat with you about ways in which you can help your patients highlight and connect with their goals.
I’ll briefly talk about an experience of mine with a patient that could no longer walk, but thanks to setting goals and building motivation, we helped her change her life for the better.
Be sure to listen in and hopefully this will inspire you to take a different approach to patient care and helping them!
Episode Highlights:
- What to ask our patients to visualise their goals
- Rethinking how we help them take on Challenges
Connect with Jennifer George:
Click here to check out my book about connecting with patients to improve their care!
At the onset of my career as a Physiotherapist (PT) in 2007, I also became a caregiver to my chronically ill father. Throughout my career and caregiving, I saw both sides of the healthcare system – as a clinician and as a family member & caregiver – and I witnessed the gaps in communication between providers and patients. Walking into a medical appointment with my dad was always a psychological experience and quite often, his healing and our outlook was mainly impacted by the quality of the interactions.
When my dad died in 2018, I was inspired to write my first book, Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing, published in June 2019. I wrote this book with the intention to help healthcare providers enhance their communication skills and be able to communicate with patients in such a way that it would help their patients achieve their highest level of function, recovery, and independence. My book has received a few awards and was an Amazon Bestseller upon its launch.
In October 2019, I further launched my podcast, The Healthcare Provider Happy Hour. The purpose of my podcast is to support the well-being of healthcare providers so that they may create the best patient experiences and minimize their risk of burnout. I’ve released over 200 episodes to date and have had the opportunity to chat with like-minded people on a similar mission over the past three years from all over the globe.”
