SMARTDRAW IN PATIENT EDUCATION:

Nurse Creates Polished Patient Education Materials in Minutes with the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition

Patti Williams is a twenty-year credentialed orthopaedic nurse at Dixie Medical Center, 245-bed hospital located in St. George, Utah. She is also a surgical preoperative nurse in education for policy procedure and quality assurance, which requires her to complete detailed patient education materials. She needed an easy medical graphics program to enhance these posters and handouts.

"I had experience using LifeArt, but when I found SmartDraw on the Internet, I was ecstatic!" said Patti. "I value the accurate and concise graphics included in the program."

Using SmartDraw, Patti was able to quickly create a patient education diagram for using an incentive spirometer, as well as a concept map for ankle pain.

Patti quickly realized that the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition automates the creation of healthcare graphics, such as anatomical diagrams, charts for medical procedures and processes, and more. In addition, it contains hundreds of detailed, accurate medical drawings from Lippincott and Netter images from Elsevier.

Unlike other graphics programs that provide users with a blank screen and expect them to draw, with SmartDraw, users select from a template that is specifically designed to create the type of illustration they need. For example, SmartDraw contains dozens of SmartTemplates for patient education handouts.

"The templates are so helpful," said Patti. "For example, I customized the 'handwashing' template for our hospital and it is used throughout our facility."

After selecting the appropriate template, users simply enter the information and SmartDraw does the rest: building the graphic automatically using built-in rules and professional design themes to guarantee polished, presentation-quality results in just a few minutes. In addition, SmartDraw features one-click export to popular document types such as PDF and PowerPoint^®, making it easy to share SmartDraw creations with others.

"SmartDraw synchronizes well with Microsoft Word^® and PowerPoint^® and that saves me time," said Patti. "I can say that the time has decreased significantly from months to weeks on presentations because of the organization of the graphics."

In addition, SmartDraw has really helped Patti improve communication throughout her organization.

"With SmartDraw, I can easily find a way to tell the story through pictures," said Patti. "Everyone I do work for raves about the graphics!"

To download a free trial visit: http://www.smartdrawhealth.com