How to know the message is received and understood
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How to know the message is received and understood

Erin Dean Health journalist

Do your patients understand the health advice you are offering them? Read our guide to ways you can improve your written and verbal communication

Given that more than 7 million adults in the UK read at or below the level of an average nine year old and four in ten people struggle to understand health information, we can all agree effective communication by nurses is critical.

Nursing Standard. 39, 10, 53-54. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.10.53.s19

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