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Health Literacy: More Important Than Ever!

Health Literacy Month is celebrated every year in October and is the ideal time to educate and promote awareness about health literacy. ...

Caring for the Family Caregiver

Get your copy of Caring for the Family Caregiver: Palliative Care Communication and Health Literacy ! Caring for the Family Caregiver...

Health Literacy Skills Are Essential for Nonclinical Workers Too

The responsibility for implementing health literacy strategies into practice is most often associated with clinical healthcare providers....

Health Literacy: A Necessary Priority in Research Studies

Healthcare research aims to improve processes and practices that will result in better health outcomes. And researchers are often...

Seven Ways To Talk To Terminal Patients

Before COVID-19 arrived in our lives, chronic illness was considered the next worldwide pandemic. But COVID-19 did arrive and life as we...

Nursing Forum Top 10% Most Downloaded Paper!

I am very excited to share that “A Concept Analysis of Health Literacy” was among Nursing Forum’s top 10% most downloaded papers!...

Fall Prevention and Health Literacy

Although falls are preventable, they occur much too often in adults aged 65 years and older. In fact, one out of four older adults fall...

Social Determinants of Health & Health Literacy: What’s the Connection?

Health literacy is often overlooked when developing interventions to address social determinants of health (SDOH), but low health...

Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model

Order the new edition of Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model ! This updated edition provides a theoretically-grounded...

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