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1. Assignment: Providing education to your patients.
Assignment: Providing education to your patients.Assignment: Providing education to your
patients.As a Medical Assistant, you will routinely communicate with and provide education
to your patients. Researching specific disease states, treatment plans, or procedures may be
a vital part of your job in order to provide patient education. It is important to research
credible sources as this allows you to have valid information to present to them.This week,
you will select and research a disease and then design a patient education pamphlet that
you might share with your patients about that disease.To complete this assignment, do the
following:Select a disease that you find interesting and wish to know more about.Select a
suitable Word template that will help you present the information to your patients in a well-
organized and attractive way.TIP: Word templates are available when you first open Word
or when you select New from the File menu. Search for “brochure” or “flyer” to find a
suitable design for your pamphlet.Use a minimum of 3 credible sources* that describe the
disease you have selected. Include a variety of resources, such as a scholarly journal article,
a magazine or newspaper article, or a web resource. Two of your sources must be
academic/scholarly sources, such as a book or an academic scholarly journal. Academic
scholarly journals can be accessed through the Rasmussen Online Library.Cite these
resources throughout the pamphlet and include a references section at the end of the
pamphlet. Use proper APA formatting for citations and references. For help with formatting
your references and citations, see the APA guide.Explain the disease as clearly as possible,
using appropriate professional language, terminology, and level of detail for your audience.
Be creative in your presentation and include pictures and diagrams to your patients’
understanding.Include the following information:Standard informationDescription of the
diseaseSigns and symptoms of the diseaseCommon causes of the disease (chronic,
etc.)Answers to common patient questionsHow is it treated?What medications are used to
treat it?Are any procedures associated with its treatment? If so, what preparation is
involved for the procedure?Use proper grammar and punctuation throughout your
pamphlet.*A note about credible sources: Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and
trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. You
want to identify sources where the author of the article is listed; if they’ve referenced other
information, the sources should be cited so that you can check for the accuracy of and
what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source. For more
information on credible sources, please visit the Rasmussen Online Library.ORDER NOW
FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSYou must proofread your paper. But do not

2. strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so
indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly.
Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read
over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as
necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious
errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.Use a standard 10
to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers
with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over
the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.Likewise,
large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space
between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at
“padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not
fool your professor.The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch
margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to
use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be
hard to follow your argument.