- The Patient Advocate
- Speak
Up and Stay Alive
- Hospital Survival Guide™
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- "Within the first 5 minutes I
learned at least three hospital safety tips."
- MaryAnn Kiner - event attendee
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- "Pat is lively, entertaining and
well informed."
- Ken and Jan Moreno - event attendees
- Book
proceeds to benefit United States veterans in
Afghanistan field hospitals via
the charity -
- Sewport
Our Troops pillowcase project in conjunction with volunteer
led Soldiers' Angels, a
501(c)(3) non-profit charity.
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- Do not wait until a hospital visit to
read this book because
- when disaster strikes, the time to
prepare has passed.
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- Medical errors are the 4th leading cause of death
in the United States!
Don't be scared - Be prepared
Speak Up and Stay Alive
Book Tour and Speaking Engagements
- Excellent lifesaving information for
- senior groups, women's organizations, veteran's groups,
religious groups,
- nursing students/nurses, hospitals,
healthcare providers, HR depts for
risk management purposes,
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health and wellness related groups,
- clubs and organizations of any
kind who are looking for a meaningful and usable
- presentation
to inform and protect their members.
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Schedule an
interview or a presentation that will save your audience from
little known hospital hazards.
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Fun, fast paced, and jam
packed with serious information, delivered with a light touch of humor
and wit. Your crowd will love it!
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- "I will never go to the hospital
without an advocate again. I learned so much!"
- Barbara Klein - event attendee
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- "Pat is saving
lives - one book at a time."
- Jack Wilshire - event attendee
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- "I am a trained patient advocate
and I came away with an unbelievable amount of new information."
- Chris Burkholder RN - event attendee
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- Select a format and a topic
for your next meeting, presentation, keynote, training, or workshop
- or we can design a specific format and
topic relevant to your group.
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- For Patients -
Advocates - Employers - Human Resource/Risk Management
Suggested
Formats
- "The Works" -
uncensored & uncut - half day to full day - hands on, interactive
lifestyle event with handouts, role-play and maximum information
- "The Scoop"
- one hour presentation with handouts devoted to the top hospital
hazards and how to avoid them
- "Small Talks"
- when you have 15 minutes or less - tight and to the point immediately
useful safety tips tailored to your group
- "Lunch 'n
Learn" - "Chat 'n Chew" - 30 minutes wrapped around
your mealtime event to offer valuable lifesaving tools
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- Suggested Topics
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- "The Role of the
Advocate" - why you need one - how to choose one - how to be
one
- "The Doctor Visit
Demystified" - how to prepare for any doctor visit to achieve
safe results
- "Prepare to
Prevail" - legal, mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and
other practical preparation ideas to insure hospital safety
- "Health Care
Hazards & Other Ominous Encounters" - hospital dangers
revealed - what they are and how to survive them
- "The Senior
Scenario" - seniors are
at a great risk for hospital-induced conditions but they can be avoided -
discover how
- "Warnings for
Women" - women
have special health care issues that require particular attention - why many
begin at the doctor's office
- "Children's
Challenges" - health
care for children is not as safe as it should or could be - learn how to
prevent errors in your child’s care
- "Vigilance for
Veterans" -discover why
a Veteran’s illness or injury drives different needs than those of
non-Veterans and their caregivers
- "Holistic
Healing" - how to use
complementary and alternative medicine to stay out of the hospital or how to
get out faster
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For
Healthcare Providers
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- "The Patient's
Perspective" - from one hour to a full day
- (the full day is designed to certify your employees or
members with the Professional Certification Designation)
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- A must for nursing school students, home
healthcare workers, hospital and healthcare staff, and others who work with
patients -
- with a focus on how to improve
patient satisfaction and patient expectations
- and how to recognize and deal with
differing personality styles to improve communication.
- (Pat is certified by Consulting
Psychologists Press and Inscape Publishing
- to incorporate both the Myers
Briggs Type Indicator and the DiSC personality style awareness
assessments within the sessions.)
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- Be sure to include your
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- We do not sell, rent, or otherwise make
your information available. Thank you.
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- Going to the hospital can kill you.
- Every year nearly two million
hospital-acquired infections claim roughly 100,000 lives.
- Heart attacks
are misdiagnosed 47 percent of the time. Why are women the common victims?
- Did you know
that hospital death rates increase up to 34% in July?
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- Why do these things happen?
What can you do about them? How can you be safe?
This book is not about bashing
doctors, nurses, hospitals, or the health care industry. Although hospital
safety statistics are alarming, hospitals do more to help than they do to
harm. The majority of doctors and nurses are amazingly dedicated people who
surrender their lives to do exhausting work to help others in need. Most
patients leave the hospital with their problems solved, ready to take on the
world as functioning individuals. However,
the health care system is fragmented, and many patients are compromised.
A visit to a
hospital is inevitable, either as a patient, a friend, loved one, or visitor.
Whatever your role, this puts you in a
position of accountability. A hospital stay is no
occasion to
be a weak voice in the background. Use this book not only as a guide but as a
personal challenge to change your frame of reference to allow you to become your own advocate or the advocate of a friend or
loved one in need. If
you choose to accept the challenge, this book, Speak Up and Stay Alive, will give you the tools you need
to become a safe and intelligent healthcare consumer.
About the author and speaker - Patricia
J. Rullo
Pat is known nationally as a speaker and coach
in the insurance and banking industry and has served on the advisory boards of
New York Life Insurance Company and Transamerica Life Insurance Company. She is
recognized through Consulting Psychologists Press as a certified administrator and interpreter of the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator, an assessment instrument that provides in-depth insights into
personality type and behavior. She is
the author of numerous business magazine articles as well as the books - Worksite
Marketing, A Promise to Deliver and Succeed With Style, and is the founder of
the charity Sewport Our Troops and the charitable fundraising company, A Case
for a Cause.
In 2008, while overseeing her insurance company
Millennium Benefits Group, Pat's 78 year
old mother took an accidental fall while at work over an unresolved building
code violation that resulted in a crushed shoulder. During the shoulder repair
operation she suffered a severe heart attack that went unrecognized by the
entire hospital staff for nearly 9 hours.
This resulted in four months of
intensive care, the use of every means of life support available, and a lengthy
stay at a rehabilitation center where the substandard quality of care nearly
ended her life. Throughout this nightmare, Pat was an activist—watching,
listening, learning and speaking up on behalf of her mother. This experience
unveiled the shocking truth about hospital care today. Here, Pat shares her
findings in an effort to spare innocent patients from the perils that threaten
their lives.
- The book, Speak Up and Stay Alive, a patient
advocate hospital survival guide, is the result of several years of research in
addition to real life hospital horror. Pat speaks nationally on the
subject, educating groups, clubs and organizations on the importance of having
an advocate at all times during a hospital stay, what dangers to look
for and how to survive them. When she's not writing, speaking or coaching
business professionals, Pat also makes time for a daily river kayak at her
summer home in Ohio and desert tai chi at her winter home in the Superstition
Mountains of Arizona.
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- Become an Accredited Speak
Up and Stay Alive Organization by certifying your employees with the
Professional Certification Designation.
- For more information, please
contact carmen@millenniumstarpublishing.com
or phone 480-982-5997 or 440-725-5462
PAT'S UPDATE: Recently my mom
was in the hospital to have a sternal wire removed from her chest. Moments prior
to her surgery a young intern approached her bed holding a bag of
medication.
- As he attempted to
hang the bag of fluid on her IV pole, she asked what it was for and he
answered, "It's just something for your back surgery." She
replied, "But I'm not having back surgery!" His comeback? "Oh
yes you are - it's written on the board."
Another
statistic? Thankfully she was awake and cognizant of her situation. THE LESSON:
Be prepared - read the book - bring it with you to the hospital - Speak Up. Let
everyone know you are an informed and empowered patient.
- Book
proceeds to benefit United States veterans in
Afghanistan field hospitals via
the charity -
- Sewport
Our Troops pillowcase project in conjunction with volunteer
led Soldiers' Angels, a
501(c)(3) non-profit charity.
Contributors
- Barbara
Abruzzo, RN - Livingwell Care Navigation Inc.
- Carol Cusick - C. Cleary Cusick, Inc.
- Tracey Driscoll, RN, MHA - Transition with Care
- Linda Garvin, RN, MSN - Patient Advocate
Bay Area, Inc.
- Hari Khalsa,
RN, MSN, FNP, BSN - Healthcare Whisperer
- Pat Mastors - Pear Health LLC
- Karen Morrisey - Golden Navigator
- Tricia Ruminski - Medical Cost Control
Inc.
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