Nurses and patients perception of educational needs of patients: A Review of Educational Needs

Abstract

Introduction: Training patients has many benefits, including reducee the incidence of diseases complications, improve their life quality, satisfaction, reduce the therapy costs and decrease the extent of patients' revisits.  This research aims to compare the importance of educational needs from nurses' and patients' perspective.

Materials and Methods: In this study, the literature available on Mag Iran, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and PubMed were collected, and after reviewing, the relevant literature was studied.

Results: Our researche findings showed the patients' and nurses' perception of educational needs at a significant level.

Conclusion: According to the research results, patients’ need training, such education is recommended to be based on patients' educational needs. Increasing patients’ information can better take care of themselves and this also improves nursing cares. Training patients prevents complications and reduces costs.