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...

Accountable Care Organi...

The hot topic in health care reimbursement these days is Accountable Care Organizations or ACOs. ACOs are a work in progress, starting with Medicare, but will probably spread if they work. Basically they are a financial structure for the provision of health care. An ACO is a local...

Improve Health Outcomes...

You know No Time to Teach: The Essence of Patient and Family Education for Health Care Providers offers evidence-based techniques on how to most effectively and efficiently teach in the limited time you have. You know it was named 2010 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year....

Easy to read medical te...

Many of us know stories about patients who heard a medical test was positive, and walked away happy, not realizing “positive” did not mean “good.” How we communicate test results to patients not only influences their understanding, but their decision-making,...