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Health Literacy Tips: Speak Plainly, Teach Often

Nurse.com

Health literacy is key to helping everyone understand what is happening and make informed, shared decisions about health care. America’s health literacy challenge. And if all of these factors are not considered by nurses and other members of the healthcare team, then health literacy will be inadequate.

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A staff nurse’s AI wish list

American Nurse

How about the staff nurses? Sure, bedside nurses use cutting edge technology in patient care, but there has been a lag in innovations that will make the day-to-day work of staff nurses easier or more efficient. If five nurses assessed this patient, there would be five disparate skin assessment findings.

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10 Side Hustles for Nurses

Nurse.com

For example, AdventHealth in Altamonte Springs, Florida is piloting virtual nursing at five of its hospitals and the 37-bed emergency department at Fish Memorial hospital in Orange City, Florida. Telehealth nursing is less physically demanding than bedside nursing, thereby decreasing the workload of bedside nurses.