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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 Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

By focusing on the six domains as an operational framework, healthcare organizations would have a higher probability of both reducing errors and improving the overall quality of health care that they provide. Patient medical records include documentation of patient histories and care. What’s missing from the Six Domains?

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

After arriving and greeting Mrs. Rogers, Linda performs a physical assessment and answers Mrs. Rogers’s questions about her recovery, documenting the information on the agency’s electronic tablet, which Linda carries with her. Linda completes her documentation in the electronic health record during the 40-minute visit.

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Oncology Nursing – a day in the life of supporting patients

The Nurse Break

Health literacy in oncology? Family and carers in the community now play a key role in supporting patients with health problems. Documentation and clinical orders have now become all electronic. There are many challenges with educating patients and their families and ensuring they know how to apply that knowledge.

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Heart failure management: Updated guidelines

American Nurse

Patients with Stage B have no HF symptoms, but do have documented structural heart disease, evidence of increased filling pressures, increased BNP levels, or persistently elevated cardiac troponin with no other cause.