Impact of Health Literacy
After watching the video, please discuss the following:
Watch Video Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand Duration: 23:19
Patients in the video describe hiding their lack of health literacy from their providers due to shame. Describe a way that you can develop a “shame-free” attitude in your practice when teaching patients?
- What is informed consent? Are the consents that patients sign at a 5th grade reading level? Do patients truly understand the risks benefits?
- Do you consider health literacy when providing discharge instructions? Explain how the materials used for discharge teaching might be improved upon?
Guidelines for Discussion
- Your response should consist of complete sentences and should be at least one complete paragraph. Support your answers with descriptions and examples to clarify your meaning. Substantiate your answers with a reference using APA format for citations
