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And The First Place Goes To.

Penn Nursing

Penn Nursing This issue - Fall 2023 Spring 2025 Fall 2024 Spring 2024 Fall 2023 Spring 2023 Fall 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Spring 2021 Search Features Don’t Go! The app helps users visualize the care continuum, from intake session through treatment, preparing patients for upcoming physical and mental demands.

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Promoting health literacy

American Nurse

Evidence-based patient education guidelines Takeaways Health literacy relates to an individual’s ability to find, understand, and use healthcare information and services. Only one in ten people have proficient health literacy. However, White found that only one in ten people have proficient health literacy.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Because We Need to Say This Out Loud – Vaccines DO NOT Cause Autism

The Relentless School Nurse

I can’t believe we have to say this out loud in 2024, but here we go: Vaccines do NOT cause autism. Yet here we are, still fighting this battle against dangerous misinformation that threatens public health. Health literacy isn’t just a one-time thing; it’s an ongoing process.

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Colorado Nurses Foundation Presents Awards for Nursing Excellence

American Nurse

At a gala event held on May 18, 2024, the Colorado Nurses Foundation honored seventy-eight nurses as Luminaries in fifteen categories. She has spearheaded significant efforts to diminish barriers to care, focusing on pet care, health literacy, and financial burdens linked to cancer treatment.

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Tax time: 10 expenses you might not know you can claim

Nursing Review

Research from Hnry’s March 2024 Sole Trader Pulse – the only nationwide survey of self-employed people in Australia, including contract nurses and NDIS workers – reveals the burden of financial admin means only 64% of sole traders claim all of the business expenses they’re entitled to.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

2024; 19(3). www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/tool2b.html Alshehri AA, Jalal Z, Cheema E, Haque MS, Jenkins D, Yahyouche A. Jamie Briscoe is an adjunct professor at Community College of Allegheny County in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. American Nurse Journal. Plan-do-study-act (PDSA) directions and examples.

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Career karma

American Nurse

That’s when Benjamin realized that she could use her natural charisma to do what was most important to her: increase health literacy. “My Impressed with her resourcefulness, AHA asked Benjamin, an ANACalifornia member, to do some radio spots about heart health. 2024; 19(5). And it worked!” American Nurse Journal.