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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. This information could be used to stimulate conversation with the patient about exercise. What do I need to do?”

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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.

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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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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 Because of that, I decided to do two things: be the best cardiac nurse in the world and educate everyone about heart disease.” And it worked!” My dad died of a massive heart attack.