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Accurately identifying patient health literacy is an important public health task. Simply providing patient education is not enough. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), only about 12% of adults in the United States have proficient health literacy. To positively enhance individual patient and societal health outcomes, healthcare workers must collaborate with other members of the health care team to ensure that patients can obtain, process, and understand accessible, high-quality health information.

Join Brenda Hage, PhD, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP, AGPCNP-BC, and David Hage, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, C-ASWCM, on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, from 2-3 p.m. ET, as they discuss strategies to promote and enhance health equity across the health care profession. Learn how providing targeted information to patients in an appropriate and accessible manner can impact their perspective of their own health and implement specific communication strategies that will help your patients understand health and illness, related decision making, and overall health care management.

Learning Objectives

1.	Describe the link between health literacy and positive health outcomes.
2.	Differentiate the subtypes of literacy.
3.	Implement health literacy tools for future use in daily practice.
4.	Formulate strategies to better communicate principles of health literacy in diverse healthcare settings.

1.0 CEU
$19.99

Suggested CDR Performance Indicators: 1.7.1, 1.7.6, 10.1.1, 10.2.12

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About Our Presenters

Brenda Hage, PhD, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP, AGPCNP-BC, serves as Director, School of Nursing at Florida Gulf Coast University where she is also a professor and the Southwest Florida Endowed Chair. Dr. Hage is a gerontologist and a nurse practitioner with clinical expertise in gerontology, rehabilitation, and family practice, and case management. Her research interests are focused on aging in place, improvement of cognition in older adults, health literacy and clear health care communication. She serves as the president of the board of directors for the Caring Community Health Care Center (CCHC) FQHC-LA clinics in Hazelton, PA, and the Kistler Clinic in Wilkes-Barre, PA and as vice chair of the Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) of Northeast PA.

David Hage, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, C-ASWCM, is a medical social worker, gerontologist, and educator. David earned a BSW degree from Misericordia University, an MSW from Marywood University, and is at the dissertation phase of a Ph.D. in Leadership & Gerontology at Concordia University Chicago. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager (C-ASWCM), and Certified Advanced Aging Life Care Professional™ (previously called Certified Geriatric Care Manager). David serves as an Assistant Professor of Social Work, Director of Field Education and Coordinator of Gerontology Education at Misericordia University. David is a board member and trainer for the Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Taskforce for Northeast PA, a regional task force committed to advanced care planning and honoring patient wishes at end-of-life. He also serves as a member of the biomedical ethics and palliative care committees at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, as an editorial advisory board member for Today’s Geriatric Medicine, and as the former chair and current member of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Aging Committee.

Disclosures

Brenda Hage, PhD, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP, AGPCNP-BC, faculty for this event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

David Hage, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, C-ASWCM, faculty for this event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

None of the planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products use by or on patients.

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity will also award 1 credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).