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Thesis
Health Literacy Issues Including Controversies and Interventions Relevant to School Nurses
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
07/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3073
Abstract
Parents are the managers for their children's health care, yet 35% have basic or below basic health literacy which is not sufficient to comprehend complex written materials. Low parental health literacy has been linked to decreased health status of children and greater costs. It is not possible to determine which patients will be affected by low literacy and some may suffer intense embarrassment if identified. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2010), has recommended that all patients be treated the same with clear communication practices and that this practice should be called a new "universal precaution." Nurses need to be aware of their own cultural biases which could become barriers to communication. Tools are available for school nurses to help with verifying understanding, culturally appropriate care, design for written materials, easy-to-read language, vocabulary, and readability.
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- Title
- Health Literacy Issues Including Controversies and Interventions Relevant to School Nurses
- Creators
- Verna S. Couchman
- Contributors
- Dawn Doutrich (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590540301842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-ND 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis