ISSN : 2347-5447

British Biomedical Bulletin

Nurses Perception of Health Literacy

Modhi S Alsubaie*

Department of Nursing Administration and Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

*Corresponding author: Modhi S Alsubaie, Department of Nursing Administration and Education, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, E-mail: osalem@ksu.edu.sa

Received date: January 28, 2022, Manuscript No. IPBBB-22-12672; Editor assigned date: January 31, 2022, PreQC No. IPBBB-22-12672 (PQ); Reviewed date: February 14, 2022, QC No. IPBBB-22-12672; Revised date: February 21, 2022, Manuscript No. IPBBB-22-12672 (R); Published date: February 28, 2022, DOI: 10.36648/2347-5447.10.1.111

Citation: Alsubaie MS (2022) Nurses’ Perception of Health Literacy. Br Biomed Bull Vol.10 No.1: 111

 

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Health knowledge is a new conception in health creation services that has reflections on the issues of health education and communication conditioning. Health knowledge provides chops that enable individualities to understand partake particular and health information with providers, navigate the healthcare system, engage in tone-care, and borrow health promoting actions. Still in Saudi Arabia limited inquiries have been conducted in the nursing field to assess nurses’ knowledge and perception of health knowledge. This study aimed to assess the nurses’ current knowledge and perception about the impact of health knowledge on cases and their practice. A descriptive check design was used in this study. The sample comported of 679 nurses’ who worked in a tertiary care setting. The data was collected using a tone reported questionnaire. The study findings revealed that utmost of the nurses have moderate knowledge about health knowledge, and the maturity of actors perceived a limited impact of health knowledge on cases watch. It's important for health care associations to have specialized tools that can effectively measure health knowledge situations; there's a critical need to design professional programs for healthcare professionals that enable them to ameliorate their position of health knowledge and associations need to insure the effective perpetration of health knowledge programs.

Advancement of Health Knowledge

Health knowledge is as important for health care providers as it is for cases. To bridge the gap between the medical information handed and its perpetration, Health care providers can help ameliorate cases’ health knowledge by understanding the health knowledge conditions faced by their cases, insure that their cases understand the instructions they've been given, make cases’ health knowledge over time, share in the health knowledge professional development programs, and encourage their association to develop and apply a health knowledge action plan. The 2015 World Bank Assessment of Adult Knowledge indicates that grown-up 11, senior 12 of Saudi retain below introductory or introductory knowledge chops and, as similar, warrant acceptable capability to read, comprehend act on medical information, and interact with the health care system. Health knowledge provides the chops that enable individualities to understand, partake particular and health information with providers, navigate the healthcare system, engage in tone care, and borrow health promoting actions. Low health knowledge is considered a worldwide health trouble. It's associated with diminished operation of habitual conditions similar as asthma, diabetes, increased hospitalization Andre-hospitalization, lower participation in health- promoting and complaint discovery conditioning, unsafe healthy choices (similar as advanced smoking rate), poor adherence to drug, increased morbidity and unseasonable death. According to a study conducted by Alomar and across-sectional check conducted by Al-Rabid, there's an association between shy health knowledge and the presence of habitual illness. The experimenter plant a relationship between health knowledge and connubial status, the frequency of sanitarium visits and physical exertion.

According to study that aimed to measure the health knowledge and to determine the frequency of shy health knowledge among adult callers and cases in the primary Health care setting of National Guard health affair in Jeddah and the associated factors, the study showed that around 83.9 (n=172) of the primary health care callers were distributed as (acceptable knowledge) while around 10.2 (n=21) were distributed as (borderline knowledge) and 5.9 (n=12) of them in (shy knowledge). Low health Knowledge has two main reflections.

The first is related to advanced costs, and the second is related to worse overall health status. What makes the situation more complicated is the fact that some cases with low health knowledge may not expose their confusion to health care professionals because they suppose that asking for help is disturbing. The results of similar actions are taking incorrect drug, the incapability to follow instructions, and lack of compliance with visit schedules. Nurses can play an effective part in prostrating the challenge of low health knowledge by espousing certain strategies. Nurses can overcome this problem by aiding cases with low health knowledge in an attempt to reduce their stays within the sanitarium and raise the situations of compliance with instructions. The failure of studies regarding health knowledge accounts for the lack of profound knowledge that would enable nurses to play their part in perfecting health knowledge and promote their services. In Japan, Nakayama et al. verified that health knowledge in the Japanese population was lower than in Europe. In Australia, low situations of health knowledge are considered a significant problem as 59 of the Australian population progressed between 15 to 74 times didn't achieve an acceptable health knowledge skill position. Nesari examined Iranian registered nurses knowledge and experience regarding health knowledge by applying quantitative measures.

The total sample of 190 Iranian registered nursery was included in the final analysis. The analysis showed that Iranian registered nurses have limited knowledge about health knowledge, utmost noticeably in areas similar as norms for written healthcare information, and common webbing tools to measure health knowledge. The actors also demonstrated limited experience in using health knowledge webbing tools, assessing the written healthcare accoutrements, and employing technologies in furnishing healthcare information.

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