Health Literacy in Nursing

Nurse Practitioner Students’ Perceptions on Delivering Culturally Congruent Care to Vulnerable Mexican Immigrants: A Qualitative Study

“…Communicating acceptance and maintaining a nonjudgmental attitude was cited by the participants as important determinants of delivering culturally congruent care that could affect the willingness of Mexican immigrant patients to openly discuss their health beliefs and practices with a nurse (Key, 2019; Martin & Leland, 2015; Parnell, 2015; Steinberg et al, 2017) Interview data highlighted the importance of linguistic concordance when caring for vulnerable Mexican immigrant patients. According to Flower and colleagues (2017), language rather than ethnicity is a major determinant of patient satisfaction among those who spoke Spanish only.…”

Health literacy

“…Sørensenova (2016) poudarja, da na zdravstveno pismenost poleg informacij, ki jih pacient pridobi v zdravstvenem sistemu, vplivajo tudi osebni, situacijski, družbeni in okolijski dejavniki. Med osebne dejavnike spadajo na primer starost, spol, rasa, socialno-ekonomski status, izobrazba, poklic, zaposlovanje, dohodek in splošna pismenost (Parnell, 2015). Situacijske determinante zajemajo socialno podporo, družinske in vrstniške vplive, uporabo medijev in fizično okolje (Rowlands, et al, 2017), družbene in okolijske dejavnike pa opišemo kot demografski položaj, kulturo, jezik, politične sile in družbene sisteme (Sørensen, 2016).…”

“…Sørensen (2016) stresses that health literacy is influenced not only by the information the patient obtains from the healthcare system but also by personal, situational, social and environmental factors. Personal factors include, for example, age, gender, race, socio-economic status, level of educational attainment, occupation, employment, income and general literacy (Parnell, 2015). Situational factors, on the other hand, include social support, family and peer influences, media use and one's physical environment (Rowlands, et al, 2017), while social and environmental factors include one's demographic status, culture, language, as well as political forces, and social systems (Sørensen, 2016).…”

Health Literacy and People with Intellectual Disabilities: What We Know, What We Do Not Know, and What We Need: A Theoretical Discourse

“…Due to the high risk for diseases and chronical illness described above, people with intellectual disabilities have a particularly high need for support and care [12,15]. Evidence from curative education and nursing research shows that people with intellectual disabilities have major problems in the field of language [16]. Particularly, a reduced understanding of speech and a reduced ability to communicate are stated.…”