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TEACH & SHOW UNTIL YOU KNOW!
Some medical devices may Don't just listen to what they When You • PLACE your phone and
be hard to understand at said, REPEAT IT BACK TO Get Home emergency numbers
within EASY REACH.
first, so ASK UNTIL YOU THEM, instead!
KNOW how to use them! • TELL your healthcare team • CONTROL YOUR PAIN! WHEN YOU GET HOME
before you leave the hospital,
This will help to reduce
Until Have your Repeating what you hear, if you need home health stress and help you to get
services for help with bathing,
the rest you need.
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
shopping, cooking or taking
You Know! doctor allows your nurse or your medicines. • TAKE MEDICINES AS
or nurse doctor to check that you • DON'T RUSH! Trying to do DIRECTED by your doctor
and manage other chronic
Has your doctor EXPLAIN understand your care plan. everything you used to do conditions like diabetes,
prescribed a AGAIN, then before going into hospital heart disease or COPD.
could delay your recovery.
medical device they should CHECK AGAIN, • USE THE MEDICINE MINDER,

or equipment to be sure you understand • REST when APPOINTMENT KEEPER and
you need to.
NOTES pages (25, 26 and 37)
for you to use at everything about your care! For the first to keep track of your recovery.
home? few days
you may tire
Ask your doctor or nurse Ask your doctor or nurse quickly–don't • TELL YOUR DOCTOR

to TEACH you how to use to explain words you don’t overdo it! how you feel throughout
them and also SHOW you know. BE CLEAR ABOUT • ASK a family member or your recovery and ask
questions about your care
how they work. WHAT YOU HEAR. friend to CHECK ON YOU plan or your progress.
AS YOU RECOVER.

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