Webinar Description
Nurses spend more time with patients than any other healthcare provider, yet they are not afforded the training, time, and resources needed to educate patients and families in accordance with health literacy best practices. To improve patient care, improve equity, and decrease costs associated with readmissions due to patients’ failure to properly care for themselves at home, a paradigm shift is needed. We must move health literacy into the realm of value-based nursing.
In this 90-minute webinar, you’ll hear from a panel of nurse leaders who are forging a new path for nurses to take a more directive role in advancing organizational and patient health literacy.
Learning Objectives
You’ll learn about:
- Leadership tactics nurses can take to raise awareness of health literacy from nursing education to state-wide initiatives
- Strategies to empower bedside nurses to become health literacy leaders in their organizations
- Best practices for leading the implementation of health literacy initiatives that improve patient outcomes and reduce costs
- Using research to provide data and demonstrate the need for health literacy funding.
- Describe organizational health literacy challenges that nurses are uniquely positioned to address.
- Discuss nursing leadership opportunities and roles nurses can take to support organizational health literacy.
- Identify the barriers and facilitators when implementing health literacy practices.
Speakers
Dr. Joy Deupree is a recognized leader in research, teaching, policy, and health literacy at the national, state and local level. An alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program, she served as an appointed member to the Alabama Governor’s Health Care Improvement Task Force and developed the infrastructure for the Alabama Health Literacy Initiative. She relocated to the University of South Carolina College of Nursing, where she served as a professor and associate dean for Office of Practice and Innovation, Partnerships, and Policy; she was co-chair of the Center for Nursing Leadership for the state of South Carolina. In May 2023, Dr. Dupree returned the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing to develop new programs for health literacy, policy, and leadership.
Dr. Amy Mirabella is a registered nurse who has provided care to patients, families, and communities for more than 30 years. She is certified as a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse (CHPN) and is currently the director of Clinical Research Operations at HonorHealth Research Institute in Arizona. Prior to taking on the role of director, Dr. Mirabella spent 6 years as an oncology research nurse and educator within the research institute. She has also served as principal investigator on three supportive care studies and currently co-leads the Health Literacy Committee within HonorHealth Research Institute.
Dr. Carol Howe is a nurse and diabetes care and education specialist. She is a health literacy researcher and practitioner leading nurses to increase clinical teams’ uptake of health literacy practices. Dr. Howe has been awarded the Leadership Award from the American Diabetes Association, the clinical teaching awards from the Pediatric Endocrinology Nurses Society, and the clinical research award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Ann Leung is a registered nurse with 20 years of experience in pediatric care. She is passionate about patient education, diversity, inclusion, and cultural responsiveness. Making information accessible to all families through the added lens of health literacy has reignited her commitment to discharge education within her organization.
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Earn Continuing Education Hours
CHES/MCHES: Sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc., this webinar is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0. Continuing Competency credits available are 0. Provider ID#: 101864
CPH: This activity is approved for 1.5 credit accepted by the National Board of Public Health Examiners' Certified Public Health (CPH) recertification program.
Nurses: The Institute for Healthcare Advancement is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Provider# P0834 (1.5 contact hours)
California Nurses: The Institute for Healthcare Advancement is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP# 11933, for 1.5 contact hours.
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