Patient Education

At Victory pharmacy, we believe that education is an important part of helping you to manage your healthcare. Understanding a condition or disease process as well as treatment options can help you achieve a better outcome. An informed and educated patient can actively participate in his or her own treatment.

The benefits of patient education include:

• Increasing the patient’s ability to cope with and manage his or her health
• Facilitating understandings of health statuses, diagnosis and treatment options, and consequences of care for patients and their families
• Empowering patients to make decisions related to their care
• Increasing patients’ potential to follow a healthcare plan
• Helping patients learn healthier behaviors
• Promoting recovery and improved function
• Increasing patient confidence in his or herself care
• Decreasing treatment complications

These are just a few valid healthcare information sites we can recommend:

• Medline Plus
• National Institutes of Health
• Drugs.com
• Drug interaction checker
• Womenshealth.gov
• WebMD
• HopkinsMedicine.org
• MayoClinic.org
• UptoDate.com
• Medivizor.com
• National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants
• The Alliance of Professional Health Advocates