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. 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.
#IHAWebinar
#OrganizationalHealthLiteracy
#Nurses