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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

They work closely with healthcare providers, social workers, and community organizations to ensure seamless coordination of care. Diverse cultural beliefs, language proficiency, and limited health literacy can impede effective communication and understanding of healthcare information.

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Using complaints to improve aged care

Nursing Review

In selecting resources to develop workforce capability, it's important to appreciate that despite a shared passion to support and care for older people, individual responsibilities, training, health literacy, and experience will vary.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

It also suggested care coordination and health systems infrastructure capabilities as new domains. One such report updated the original six domains by recategorizing equity as a “crosscutting dimension” that affects all domains, along with value.

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Heart failure management: Updated guidelines

American Nurse

The guidelines recommend using an interprofessional team to screen for and address social determinants of health (socioeconomic status, food insecurity, homelessness or housing insecurity, abuse, limited English proficiency, low health literacy, social isolation, and limited transportation) that may affect self-care.

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Diabetes innovations and access to care

American Nurse

For example, ElSayed and colleagues recommend considering individual patient health literacy and cultural disease awareness when discussing diabetes technology. Nurses must assess a patient’s baseline knowledge about the technology and how it improves their care.