Bihl, Amy | Suick, Gina

Bridging the Communication Gap | Equipping Families & Providers with Health Literacy Tools

[3934] Bridging the Communication Gap | Equipping Families & Providers with Health Literacy Tools Identify health literacy barriers and implement evidence-based health literacy strategies. Presentation Info: TAHC&H Event | Winter Conference | Rich-Media Presentation Capture | Online On-Demand Access Presentation Date: February 13, 2025 Program Description: Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions.” (SaferCareTexas.org) Individuals display varying degrees of health literacy. Socio-economic factors, generational trauma, culture, and language differences may create barriers to health literacy, thereby impacting families’ healthcare decisions and contributing to community-wide health disparities. Our role as healthcare providers is to help bridge the gap and provide families with health literacy tools so they can make informed decisions about their child’s healthcare. This program helps healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers identify health literacy barriers and implement evidence-based health literacy strategies to better equip communication practices and effectively inform and empower patients and families to make appropriate healthcare decisions. HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed: §558.259[d][4] agency responsibilities §558.260[a][3] basic principles of management in a licensed health-related setting §558.260[a][8]skills for working with clients, families, and other professional service providers Education-Training Credits: TX HCSSA Administrator/Alternate Continuing Education 1.25 Clock Hr(s) Continuing Education for Nurses 1.25 Contact Hr(s) This program awards CNE until 02.13.2027 Texas HCSSA CE Approval Statement This program meets continuing education requirements for Administrators and Alternates under Texas HCSSA licensing regulations.
Nurse CE Approval Statement Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. LSNA Provider No. 4002151 Requirements for Successful Completion: To receive continuing education credits for this online presentation, the participant must view the entire online presentation, complete an evaluation, and post-test attestation. Reporting of Perceived Bias: Bias, as defined by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC COA/LSNA) is the “tendency or inclination to cause partiality, favoritism, or influence.” Commercial bias may occur when a CNE activity promotes one or more product(s) (drugs, devices, services, software, hardware, etc.). This definition is not all inclusive and participants may use their own interpretation in deciding if a presentation is biased. The ANCC COA is interested in the opinions and perceptions of participants at approved CNE activities, especially in the presence of actual or perceived bias in continuing education. Therefore, ANCC invites participants to access their “ANCC Accreditation Feedback Line” to report any noted bias or conflict of interest in the education activity. The toll-free number is 1(866) 262-9730.
TAHC&H Faculty/Presenter(s): Amy Bihl, LMSW and Gina Suick, LMSW, Knowledge Is Now About the Presenter(s): Amy Bihl Amy Bihl, LMSW, is a Licensed Master Social Worker who has worked in the field of social work for a little over twenty years, including adult and pediatric healthcare, non-profit management, and international adoptions. She has been a Social Work Case Manager with Therapy 2000/Green Apple Therapy, a Texas pediatric home health company, for the past fourteen years, six years of which she was also a certified Case Management Provider for Children and Pregnant Women with the Department of Texas Health and Human Services. About the Presenter(s): Gina Suick Gina Suick is a Licensed Master Social Worker who graduated from UTA in 2001. Her initial focus was working with victims of family violence both in a shelter setting and in the criminal justice field. It was after that experience she began her career as a medical social worker. She has worked in a hospital setting as a pediatric neurology social worker and now in pediatric home health. She has been part of the Therapy 2000 family since 2010. She covers the East Texas, Houston and Austin divisions. [3934] Bridging the Communication Gap | Equipping Families & Providers with Health Literacy Tools

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