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Demanding Health Literacy
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Marijke Durning, RN
Marijke Vroomen-Durning has been an RN since 1983 and although she has been writing since the mid-90s, she continued to work clinically until last year. Her passion is patient education and helping the general public understand the medical world by translating medicalese into real-life language. Marijke’s popular blog, Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer has been the catalyst for her career as she now claims the number one spot in Google searches if you type in “Nurse writer.”
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Patient teaching and patient education are big topics in nursing. Good preventative health education helps keep people from becoming patients and good patient education helps patients from getting worse or helps them manage their condition or illness.
It used to be that nurses had time to sit down and discuss various issues with their patients, answering questions and generally providing support. With cutbacks all over health care, be they from the recession and layoffs, to a shortage of nursing, there are higher patient loads, higher expectations, and fewer staff members. This leads to patient education being but a memory for many nurses.
Rather than nurses educating patients, patient education material is provided to patients and families on an as-needed basis. In a perfect world, this would be a great solution: we don’t have time to talk to them, so we provide them with the written information that can be saved and referred to later. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and the written word is not as effective as the spoken word.
The written word can’t:
• Answer questions as the patients ask them
• Provide alternate ways of explaining things if they’re not understood in their present form
• Always be understood by the reader if the reading level is too high
• Be read by someone who cannot read
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I know professionals that work for rehab centers in California and we talked about this issue. My personal opinion is that lately, hospitals are getting overcrowded and you do not have the physical time to educate a patient. On the other hand, the Internet could prove to be an important tool to educate patients, but it's not used at its full potential.
JoeKeller
almost 2 years ago
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One of my friends in now at the Oklahoma long term rehab. He has some drug related problems in his life. The nurses there had the time to explain him how things can go from now on for him. They explained that the road ahead will be difficult, but the prize at the end is surely something that can compensate.