Educating nursing students about health literacy: From the classroom to the patient bedside

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sand Jecklin, Kari ^a   Murray, Billie ^a   Summers, Barbara ^b   Watson, Joanne ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Chew health literacy screening questions; Health literacy; Health literacy assessment; Nursing education; Nursing students; Teaching health literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551702854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10913734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol15No03PPT02     Document Type: Article

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