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Writing For Nursing And Health Care Profession

Writing for Nursing: Module 6

CREATING PATIENT MATERIALS: 

Center for Health Care Strategies. (2013). What is health literacy? Factsheets.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009). Simply put: A guide for creating easy-to-understand materials.

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AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Tookkit
https://www.ahrq.gov/literacy

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2012). Part 4: Understand and using the “Toolkit Guidelines for Writing.” In Toolkit for makingwritten material clear and effective. https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/WrittenMaterialsToolkit/index.html?redirect=/WrittenMaterialsToolkit/  Writing For Nursing And Health Care Profession

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Deatrick, D., Aalberg, J., & Cawley, J. (2010). A guide to creating and evaluating patient materials: Guidelines for effective print communication. MaineHealth.

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National Institutes of Health. (2018). Clear & simple. https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih/nih-office-director/office-communications-public-liaison/clear-communication/clear-simple

Click here to download document on Citing Visuals

 

Track Changes

Microsoft Office. (2019a). Track changes [Video file]. Retrieved from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/video-track-changes-dc8d239d-b60b-4b6d-803c-3acaf0c8ae15

Microsoft Office. (2019b). Track changes in word [Video file]. Retrieved from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/track-changes-in-word-197ba630-0f5f-4a8e-9a77-3712475e806a#ID0EAACAAA=Newer_versions

 

Websites

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (2020). The Writing Center: Conclusions. https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/conclusions/

 

Writing for Nursing: Module 6 assignment

Overview:

This is an opportunity to create a document of your own design with the intention of teaching laypeople in the country you selected and that addresses the chosen health issue. Writing For Nursing And Health Care Profession

Review the examples that are available in the Instructional Materials folder for Module 6. Use the samples and any other health education materials from the clinical setting, in the community, or online as resources

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Instructions

  1. Choose the type of educational material you wish to design. It may be a patient education pamphlet, a poster, or a fact sheet that addresses a defined educational need of laypeople in relation to the chosen health issue. Remember you are working with individuals in the selected country.
  2. The following audience characteristics must be addressed in the educational material you are creating.
    • Adults in the country you selected in Module 1 (or revised by Module 3).
    • English is the second language of these adults
    • The adults are laypeople
  2. Address the following items.
    • The purpose of the pamphlet/poster/fact sheet is clear
    • Use visuals when appropriate and make sure the visuals are appropriate for the purpose you have specified
    • Use language appropriate for the identified audience (remember that material for the general US population needs to be between the 6th and 8th grade reading level).
    • Avoid inclusion of items that might frighten or upset the layperson but make sure the document is informative
  2. Make sure that the educational document is only one (1) page. Documents that are more than one (1) page will receive an immediate five (5) point deduction. Writing For Nursing And Health Care Profession
  3. SAVE your work in a pdf file to ensure that formatting does not change the size of the document from one (1) to two (2) pages

 

Click on the link “M6 A1: PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIAL – SUBMISSION AREA” to submit your paper

 

  • Points: 20

  • Due: See Course Calendar/Checklist
  • Refer to Rubric for evaluation guidelines

Note: You will have three (3) attempts to submit a written assignment, only the final attempt will be graded. For each attempt you will receive a SafeAssign originality report. This will give you a chance to correct the assignment based on the SafeAssign score. Click here to view instructions on how to interpret your SafeAssign originality report.

Kindly note: If a submission has been made for more than 48 hours without a re-submission, it will be considered final and will be subject to being graded.

 

Samples of Patient Education Materials:
(Please note that some of the samples do not meet the one-page limit.  They are provided for content and form suggestions.)

Factsheet

  • Sample Fact Sheet Epilepsy

What You Need to Know About Opioids. MedFacts.

  • Sample Opioid factsheet

Poster

  • Sample Flu Poster

 

Variety of educational materials are available at:
www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/materials_for_patients.htm Writing For Nursing And Health Care Profession