The QRI Patient and Family Education Committee is has developed a range of patient information materials, which have been developed for the benefit of you and your family.
QRI promotes development of educational materials that are specifically developed for people with special needs and functional impairments /disabilities due to their condition or injury. We believe that understanding more about a condition and the treatment will promote better recovery outcomes.
Mission:
Provide health educational services to patients, families and communities in Qatar related to rehabilitation.
Vision:
To become a source of information for patients, families, the community and QRI staff.
Purposes
- To raise awareness of the patient’s health status
- To encourage patient, family participation in decision making about health care options
- To increase the patient’s and family’s potential to follow the therapeutic healthcare plan
- To maximize patient and family care skills
- To increase the patient’s and family’s ability to cope with the patient’s health status and prognosis and outcome
- To enhance the patient’s and family’s role in continuing care
- To promote a healthy patient lifestyle
In Qatar Rehabilitation Institute:
- During the rehabilitation patient and family education is a continuous ongoing process
- Education related to rehabilitation includes both the knowledge needed during the care process and the knowledge needed after the patient is discharged to another care site or home.
- The education process considers the patient’s and family’s needs and learning preferences.
- Patients and their families are encouraged to ask questions and to speak up as active participants in the treatment process.
- Verbal information should be reinforced with written material that is related to the patient’s needs. The patient or family member can ask the team for such information at any time during the treatment plan.
