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THE LEVEL OF HEALTH LITERACY KNOWLEDGE AMONG NURSE FACULTY

Turnier, Joanne

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2015, Doctor of Nursing Practice , Case Western Reserve University, School of Nursing.
Ninety million Americans have low health literacy making it difficult to understand health information, read medication labels, and navigate through healthcare environments. Patients with low health literacy are at risk for adverse events; increased hospital admissions and readmissions, fatal errors and mortality. Health literacy knowledge deficits among nursing faculty make it difficult to incorporate health literacy strategies and content into nursing education programs. A convenience sample of 122 nurse faculty who attended the 2014 National League of Nurses Education Summit participated in this cross sectional descriptive study. The Health Literacy Knowledge and Experience Survey Part 1 was used to measure nursing faculty’s health literacy knowledge within five content areas. The majority of participants (96.7%, n = 117), was female, White (90.9%, n = 110) with a mean age of 54.1 years. The majority (82.8%, n = 101) had at least 20 years teaching experience. The total mean health literacy score in the sample was 22.0 (SD = 2.95). Although nursing faculty had some knowledge of health literacy significant knowledge deficits exist. Participants were unable to identify high risk populations (59%, n = 108), appropriate health literacy assessment and screening tools, and appropriate written materials. Nursing faculty (41.7%, n = 30) identified the most significant barrier to the implementation of health literacy into nursing curriculum as lack of health literacy knowledge among nursing faculty. Increasing nursing faculty’s awareness of their health literacy knowledge may serve as a catalyst for behavior change and facilitate the integration of health literacy strategies and content into nursing programs. Implications for education practice, and recommendations are provided.
Mary T. Quinn Griffin, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF (Committee Chair)
79 p.

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  • Turnier, J. (2015). THE LEVEL OF HEALTH LITERACY KNOWLEDGE AMONG NURSE FACULTY [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1429972828

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Turnier, Joanne. THE LEVEL OF HEALTH LITERACY KNOWLEDGE AMONG NURSE FACULTY. 2015. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1429972828.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Turnier, Joanne. "THE LEVEL OF HEALTH LITERACY KNOWLEDGE AMONG NURSE FACULTY." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1429972828

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)