Alternative formats and...

Everything we are doing is moving beyond paper – textbooks, newspapers, banking. So what other formats and technologies are we using, or considering, for patient education? Join a free phone conference, sponsored by the Health Care Education Association on Thursday May 10,...

Health care providers c...

My goal as a health care provider is to improve health outcomes. This is not so easy, since good health outcomes are the result of lots of factors, like the availability of effective treatments and the patient’s adherence to the plan. Some factors that contribute to health outcomes...

What works best in pati...

Is your practice evidence based? I continuously use free Internet tools to search for and send me the latest research and news relating to patient and family education. Then, whenever I get a chance, I can read a few of them in the limited time I have. Recently, a systematic review...

Update your patient por...

Your practice has a website. You are moving toward electronic health records (EHR). You want to provide individualized patient and family education of high quality, but you have no budget. What do you do? Well, MedlinePlus.gov offers free, reliable, up-to-date health information...

Win a copy of my book!...

Pritchett & Hull, my publisher, says: Like us on Facebook and you are automatically entered for your chance to win 1 of 5 copies of No Time to Teach, the AJN Book of the Year. Winners will be chosen by December 21st. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150519164913783&id=107911418782 Got...

Free Instructions: How...

You’ve head about the importance of health literacy. You know many of your patients have difficulty following written instructions. You know you should be writing your patient education materials more clearly. But you just don’t know where to begin. Plain language is...

Links to recent researc...

I confess: I went on a summer vacation, a road trip to visit family and friends. Now I’m back, refreshed and renewed. I did not update this website in that time, but I did keep up on my Twitter tweets, disseminating the latest research (@notimetoteach). For those of you...

“No Time to Teach...

Yes, it’s official. The review of No Time to Teach in the current issue of the Journal for Nurses in Staff Development – JNSD is out — and “No Time to Teach is great for the bedside nurse who also has no time to read.” The reviewer, Judy McDaniel, MSN, RN,...

Helping colleagues unde...

Despite the fact functional health literacy has been discussed in the professional literature for quite some time, there are health care providers who just don’t get it. They don’t get that low health literacy exists. They don’t get the impact it has on health...

Nurses can change the w...

Pfizer surveyed 1,600 nurses in 8 countries and found most nurses want more time to do patient education, so they can improve health outcomes. 95% of nurses surveyed want to use their skills and time to educate individuals about the threat and prevention of non-communicable diseases...