Patient education is a cornerstone of care. You see many patients in a day and have a high level of complexity to deal with. Your patient education is also expected to achieve multiple simultaneous goals, under increasingly restricted circumstances. A nurse administrator asked me the question that’s the title of this article. It’s no secret […]
Health literacy as an interaction, Part 1
On this date, 14 years ago, Louise Rosenblatt died. She was 100 years old. Louise Rosenblatt was a researcher in reading and writing for nearly the entire 20th century (!!) and into the 21st. Maybe you’ve heard of her. If you haven’t, a Google search for her will yield about 3 billion results. So I’ll […]
Is mentoring on your mind? 4 ways to think about mentoring in the health professions
Whether you are a mentor, have a mentor, or want a mentor, this episode’s for you. I break down four domains–four ways of thinking–about mentoring and mentoring programs that may be helpful to you in the health professions. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT A couple years ago, I had a set of conversations with a physician in Academic Medicine who […]
5 Tips to help your interprofessional communication
Over the last six weeks, four different health care professionals have asked me about interprofessional communication. Two were public health administrators, one was a medical educator, and one was a physician-administrator. All four were in different organizations. I don’t know why the sudden uptick. But I am taking notice, and taking this chance to share […]
4 useful reminders about health literacy
I’ll invite you, for a moment, not to worry about health literacy, but to see it as something you can work with. In this episode, you’ll learn 4 helpful reminders when it comes to health literacy and your patients. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT In the last several years, health literacy has become the patient safety and quality […]
One thought on health communication and chronic disease
“Well, like the food for instance, it wasn’t a very extensive list of what you could eat, it was very limited and most of the food I eat wasn’t on it…” (participant, Carolan Gill & Steele 2012) You can’t be in health communication and health literacy without hearing about chronic disease, non-communicable diseases, and disease […]