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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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The Importance of Effective Communication in Nursing

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

To be a successful healthcare provider, clinical nurse or nurse leader, you need exceptional communication skills—and you need to be able to use them during high-stress situations. Why Is Communication Important in Nursing? Below, we explore 10 communication skills that are important for nurses.

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Seven Steps to Become a More Culturally Sensitive Nurse

Every Nurse

It can be difficult to inform a patient or be confident about consent given when the patient primarily communicates in their mother tongue. Health Literacy A different understanding of healthcare from culture to culture also affects health literacy. is expanding culturally at an unprecedented rate.

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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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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

Diverse cultural beliefs, language proficiency, and limited health literacy can impede effective communication and understanding of healthcare information.

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Heart failure management: Updated guidelines

American Nurse

For patients with advanced HF, particularly Stage D, palliative care aids communication to address prognosis, life-extending therapies vs. treatment discontinuation, symptom management, and hospice. Palliative care The updated guidelines recommend palliative care and management to optimize patient outcomes and end-of-life quality.

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Oncology Nursing – a day in the life of supporting patients

The Nurse Break

Over the next 8 years I had the opportunity to work across a range of cancer services – including clinical haematology, radiation oncology and medical oncology as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and an Oncology Nurse Educator. Health literacy in oncology? Education must be adaptable based on who is being educated.