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Understanding Social Determinants of Health

Diversity Nursing

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and the broader array of influences and structures impacting everyday living. These determinants are the key drivers of health disparities, leading to unjust and preventable health outcomes.

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Minority Health Month: Cultural Competence Boosts Outcomes

Minority Nurse

When individuals and communities have access to health information, resources, and services that identifies and respects others’ formal and casual languages, religious and cultural behaviors and beliefs, and is provided with easy and convenient access to accurate health resources, the potential for better health outcomes is greatly improved.

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Improving hypertension using virtual modalities

American Nurse

This preventable illness demands innovative strategies to improve health outcomes. All of these factors can result in less time for preventive health education. In VHA primary care, most of the time available after nurse intake focuses on addressing chronic pain, mental health, and disability ratings. Hypertension.

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Life of Remote Area Nursing – Dirt Roads, Dogs and Sunsets

The Nurse Break

I wanted to go to the places where I can assist to change health outcomes and trajectories. I hinted at it before but the disparity in health is insane up here. Most ailments flow directly from low socio-economic/ low health literacy or poor access to health care. I really can’t stress this enough.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

Improve care, promote the profession Nurses play a key role in patient education, medication management, and prevention of negative health outcomes. www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/tool2b.html Alshehri AA, Jalal Z, Cheema E, Haque MS, Jenkins D, Yahyouche A. American Nurse Journal. 2024; 19(3).