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Validation of Electronically Administered Three-Question Health Literacy Screener and STOFHLA in Identifying Limited Health Literacy

American Nurse

Introduction LOW HEALTH LITERACY, when not identified, is associated with poor health outcomes such as unsatisfactory medication compliance, poor disease management, and increased healthcare costs. RM, 2000) Currently, there are several validated modalities to assess health literacy (e.g., Chew et al., Chew et al.,

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IHS Health IT Modernization Program: The Case for a Better Learning Management Platform

Relias

To improve the quality and efficiency of its healthcare delivery, the Indian Health Service (IHS) launched the Health IT Modernization Program in 2019. The importance of education delivery as part of IT modernization IHS’ Health IT Modernization Program will transform the way it delivers healthcare services to its communities.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

They then provided telephonic education to those patients about polypharmacy, the benefits of a pharmacist-led medication review, and the AWC web application. Improve care, promote the profession Nurses play a key role in patient education, medication management, and prevention of negative health outcomes. 2024; 19(3).

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The Economics of Proactive Models of Chronic Disease Care & Management

The Nurse Break

My thoughts on this argument have always been; we can either risk it and proactively pay for this technology, monitoring, support and ongoing health education or we can continue to reactively pay when they turn up to our emergency departments, often late and incredibly unwell due to the often poor management of their chronic disease.

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Being Sharp in Health Literacy

American Nurse

This exchange fascinated me, partly because of my interest in languages, but mostly because patients with limited English proficiency face the double burdens of social and health disparities, which I feel is a nurse-sensitive issue. In other words, good health literacy equals better health.

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Improving hypertension using virtual modalities

American Nurse

Takeaways: Remote blood pressure monitoring combined with patient education improves blood pressure control. Innovative strategies are required to help improve Veterans Health Administration primary care workload and panel. All of these factors can result in less time for preventive health education.

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Risk stratification of CVD in type 2 diabetes

American Nurse

The tool also is recommended by the American Diabetes Association in partnership with the AHA for the Know Diabetes by Heart™ program, which guides nursing and provider collaboration for patient education, improved self-management, and early treatment recommendations. See Risk assessment: History and recommendations.