This blog will become a journal of my journey to discover a method of communication clarity of health care information that can be used by Nurses. Specifically, I will look at how connections can be made between the responsibility of the Nurse as "speaker as well as listener" and the responsibility of the patient as "listener as well as speaker".
Because of my 35 years experience as a nurse and my exposure to the on-going attempts of my colleagues to provide clear, useful, and relevant information, I hope to place the NURSE as one of the most important front line communicators.
I hope to examine the following questions:
Is the nurse clear, logical, and thorough in the presentation of medical information?
Have barriers to learning been identified, adapted, and addressed?
Is there a way for the nurse to evaluate the patent's response to the discussion of the information?
How can the Nurse ensure the information given is incorporated into the personal health care literacy of the patient?
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
about 1 in 20 adults in the US is not literate in English
11 million Americans lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks
Literacy is learned
Learning the visual, written, and numerical skills of health care management allows patients to make informed choices regarding their health. Nurses are often on the frontline of providing information.
I believe the information a Nurse provides for a Patient allows for a literacy that enables entry into a dialogue of the personal, private, and public worlds of health care.
These will be some of the questions, research, and observations of my journey.
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