Create a patient graphic

Describe what you want patients to understand and Anara finds the supporting evidence in your clinical materials, then generates a clear illustrative graphic built on it. Use it for patient education materials when you have no design budget or illustrator.

Prompt

A clinical nurse specialist needs a graphic on the fluid retention cycle for a heart failure home monitoring leaflet.

I need a patient-facing educational graphic for a heart failure home monitoring leaflet. The target audience is patients aged 65-80 recently discharged after a heart failure admission. Many have low health literacy.

First, search my uploaded heart failure management protocol for the section on fluid retention monitoring, daily weight checks, and when to call the clinic.

Then generate an illustrative graphic showing the cycle: increased salt or fluid intake leads to fluid retention, which causes weight gain and breathlessness, which should trigger the patient to call the clinic. The visual style should be clear and simple: no small text, no complex diagrams, icons and arrows rather than clinical notation. Aspect ratio 3:4 for portrait A5 leaflet.

What to add to your library

• Required: a description of the patient audience, the single message, and the intended format.
• Optional: your clinical protocols or condition management guides, so the graphic reflects what your materials say.
• Optional: a preferred visual style, such as icon-based or minimal text.
• Optional: the format or dimensions: portrait for a leaflet, square for a digital display, wide for a slide.

What you get

• An illustrative graphic grounded in your clinical materials, for leaflets, waiting rooms, or digital health platforms.
• One concept per image.
• An educational illustration, not a clinical diagram with precise anatomical detail. Your clinical team should review it before use.

Follow-ups

Create a companion graphic for the next step.

Generate a second graphic for the same leaflet showing what to do when the daily weight increases by more than 2kg in 24 hours: call the heart failure nurse, do not wait until the scheduled appointment. Same visual style, same aspect ratio.

Simplify for a lower-literacy audience.

The graphic has too many elements for a very low-literacy audience. Simplify to a single icon-based image showing one action: weigh yourself every morning and call if the number goes up. Remove all text except the single instruction.

Tips

• One concept per graphic. Trying to show the full clinical pathway in one image is the most common failure.
• Frame the message as "this causes that" or "when this happens, do this."
• For a series, set the visual style in the first graphic and reference it in later prompts.
• Route every graphic through your institution's clinical communications approval before distribution.