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Create your own patient information - follow these easy steps

Make sure your patients have the right information to support their care and help them to make good health decisions. Create your own patient information easily by following these steps - complete our updated online tutorial 10 steps to creating patient information.

You'll learn about:

  1. Defining what you want to say
  2. Identifying who you want to say it to
  3. Finding the right format
  4. Where to check whether it already exists
  5. What type of language you should use
  6. How to create readable text
  7. How to use images
  8. Arranging the layout
  9. Why you should add help options
  10. Keeping your references

Your course avatar provides helpful hints and tips:

screen-shot of welcome message from Lily the course avatar

More tutorials

For more online tutorials go to the Health Library Information Skills etutorials web page.

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