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/ 

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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/