PULSE of Colorado

Education

PULSE teaches patients/families how to protect themselves from avoidable adverse outcomes in healthcare. The most important way to do this is to talk. Communications between patient, doctor, nurse, and other health care workers.

• PULSE provides encouragement to ask questions
• PULSE encourages patients and families to make decisions about health care as a team with all providers

Advocacy

PULSE encourages partnering with all providers and complete teamwork. It is important for patients to be fully engaged in order to help reduce the chance of an unexpected outcome. It is important for providers to communicate with one another regularly about the patient. Most bad outcomes result from problems created by today's complex health care system. But bad outcomes also happen when doctors and their patients have problems communicating. Uninvolved and uninformed patients are less likely to do what they need to do to make the treatment work. We urge you to take a stand, be informed.