Health Literacy: Can Nursing as a Profession Do More to Reduce this Disparity?
Webinar Overview
Nurses are at the forefront of patient care with the potential to make the most significant contribution to improve health care for low literate patients. This Webinar will 1.) Provide background information on national initiatives to improve health literacy; 2.) Enhance the knowledge of attendees to identify populations at risk for low health literacy; 3.) Provide examples of assessments used in clinical and research settings as well as anecdotal approaches to determine patients at risk; 4.) Review policy implications; 5.) Provide examples of resources for referral of at risk populations; and 6.) Offer guidelines for nursing curriculum development for this topic.
NOTE: This Webinar is only open to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing.
Webinar Speaker
Joy P. Deupree, PhD, APRN-BC
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow 2014 Cohort
Director, Professional Development & Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Deupree is Director of Professional Development and an assistant professor at the University of Alabama (UAB) School of Nursing, Birmingham, Alabama and a 2014 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellow. Her research focuses community participatory research for promotion of healthcare for underserved and vulnerable populations. A certified Laubach literacy tutor since 1997, she began her research in this area in 2002 as co-investigator for a grant to study health literacy and fever management of children ages 6 months to 6 years. For 12 years, Deupree has taught a campus-wide elective on health literacy and has been a guest lecturer on the topic at the UAB schools of medicine, dentistry, health professions and public health. In 2012 Dr. Deupree founded the Alliance of International Nurses for Improved Health Literacy and established a nursing special interest group for the annual Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC).