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Peds Collab Preview | Elevate patient care through health literacy

NRC Health

This years lineup includes many great presentations, including a session that aims to illuminate the importance of health literacy as a foundational element of patient care. The post Peds Collab Preview | Elevate patient care through health literacy appeared first on NRC Health.

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Training Your Team to Talk About Clinical Trials with Patients 

American Medical Compliance

Some may mistrust clinical trials due to past injustices. Others may have limited experience navigating the healthcare system.

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And The First Place Goes To.

Penn Nursing

Structured touchpoints allow providers to see what patients understand about treatment, and the app may trigger calls to health care providers to improve patient health literacy. 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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Almost 1 million Australians are LGBTQIA+ – and for the first time, there’s a new national health plan for them

Nursing Review

It aims to enhance access to inclusive health care and improve health literacy for LGBTQIA+ people. For example, this will include ensuring LGBTQIA+ people are included in policy development and service planning across a range of health areas.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Caring for Yourself, Others, and Your Heart in a Sudden World

The Relentless School Nurse

As educators, we have a unique opportunity to promote health literacy among our students, staff, and families. But our care extends far beyond these clinical duties. We are educators, advocates, and connectors within our school communities.

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Social media can adversely impact young peoples risk-taking behaviours

Evidence-Based Nursing

Multimodal methods such as online health literacy education and promoting positive health behaviours could contribute to safe social media use in YP. Implications for practice and research Social media is part of young peoples’ (YP) everyday life including interacting with peers and sourcing information.

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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.