A Closer Look at Health Literacy Disparities in Wound Care Education

Education is such an important aspect of health care, and patients need to be able to understand instructions that correspond to his or her treatment plan. With this information in mind, how should clinicians educate their patients about wound care in a way that is appropriate to their reading level?

Kylie McMath, MSN, RN, CWOCN addresses this topic in her poster, “Health Literacy Disparities in Wound Care Patient Education” at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Fall.

According to the author, there are very few resources available online to patients to educate them about wound care. To gather data for this poster, the researcher searched for relevant keywords (ie, “wound care education”) on a common Internet search engine. Then, health literacy levels of the top articles were examined.

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