The goal of this course is to help healthcare professionals learn how to educate diabetes patients who have low literacy skills.
Course Publication Date:
May 15, 2020
This course is available with
NO ADDITIONAL FEE if you have an active
one year unlimited membership!
| Author: | Anita Rothera-Delaney RN, BS |
| Course No: | DPLL121019 |
| Contact Hours: | 1.00 |
| Delivery Method: | Online Self Study |
| Category: | Geriatric Medicine
Community & Home Health
Medical & Surgical Issues
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Learning Objectives
Discuss three specific tasks diabetes patients might be required to carry out regarding their treatment decisions.
Define and discuss functional and health literacy and discuss the special challenges people have if their first language is not English.
Explain the magnitude and health-related implications of the literacy problem in the U.S.
Describe how pictographs convey a lot of information quickly.
Describe some of the direct effects of literacy on health.
Describe some of the indirect effects of literacy on health.
Name four techniques to improve oral communication.
List four things to avoid when teaching people with low literacy skills.
Define criteria for producing patient education materials and evaluating the appropriateness of existing materials for patients with low literacy skills.
Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of several common strategies for assessing literacy in clinic populations.
Examine whether their current teaching strategies meet the needs of persons with low literacy skills.