Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills [Paperback]

Cecilia C. Doak (Author), Leonard G. Doak (Author), Jane H. Root (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0397551614 | ISBN-13: 978-0397551613 | Edition: Second

This practical text guides the reader in developing the necessary tools for teaching those patients with limited literacy skills. Nurses will learn proven strategies for evaluating comprehension and teaching patients using written materials, tapes, video, computer aided instruction, visuals, and graphics. An abundance of case studies helps to demonstrate the application of teaching/learning theory to actual practice. Readers will also explore literacy issues in health care as well as the cultural impact on comprehension.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (January 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0397551614
• ISBN-13: 978-0397551613
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Nurse-Patient Relations

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE classic in patient ed!, April 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills (Paperback)

This book is misnamed. It shows you not only how to teach patients with low literacy skills--but all patients!

Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills shows you how to apply current research findings to actively involve your learner and enhance understanding and retention. It shows you how to prepare written and audiovisual materials so they most effectively teach.

Best of all, the Suitability Assessment of Materials form helps you evaluate teaching materials, quantitatively, so you invest your limited patient ed dollars wisely in the best teaching tools.

It's the classic in the field. This is the book everyone else quotes. Including me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bring health messages down to earth, June 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills (Paperback)

I wish I could tell everybody who has ever produced any kind of health information material to read this book. The advice it gives has helped me write more clearly period - not just for people with low literacy. Given the overwhelming amount of about health care information in the news and on the Web, health communicators need to make their messages accessible and meaningful or get lost in the shuffle. This book shows you how.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills, September 19, 2000

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Kenneth C. Brownson (New Castle, DE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills (Paperback)

This book is truely a classic in the field of patient education. Everyone who teaches patients/clients should read this book as much of what is written for patients -- can't be read by them. The number of illiterate and poor readers in this country is unbelievable yet this is sledom taken into consideration by health professionals. I had the pleasure to attend an all day seminar given by Cecilia and Leonard Doak years ago and have used their lessons since.