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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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Heather Hightower’s Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing Journey

Minority Nurse

The hospital didn’t have a labor and delivery department, but they did have a women’s health department, and Hightower eventually began working there with gynecology oncology and breast oncology patients as an inpatient bedside nurse. “But I missed working with a kids,” they say.

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The Power of Words

Penn Nursing

She dedicated spare time to helping at community health screening fairs promoted to underserved Latinos in Los Angeles. Seeing the level of need and learning about health disparities, I realized, oh, I’ve experienced this. I just didn’t know the terms like ‘social determinants of health,’” Villalobos says. “I