Social Literacy: Nurses' Contribution Toward the Co-Production of Self-Management

We share findings from a larger ethnographic study of two urban complex care management programs in the Western United States. The data presented stem from in-depth interviews conducted with 17 complex care management RNs and participant observations of home visits. We advance the concept of social...

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Main Authors: Leslie Dubbin (Author), Nancy Burke (Author), Mark Fleming (Author), Ariana Thompson-Lastad (Author), Tessa M. Napoles (Author), Irene Yen (Author), Janet K. Shim (Author)
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Published: SAGE Publishing, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:We share findings from a larger ethnographic study of two urban complex care management programs in the Western United States. The data presented stem from in-depth interviews conducted with 17 complex care management RNs and participant observations of home visits. We advance the concept of social literacy as a nursing attribute that comprises an RN's recognition and responses to the varied types of hinderances to self-management with which patients must contend in their lived environment. It is through social literacy that complex care management RNs reconceptualize and understand health literacy to be a product born out of the social circumstances in which patients live and the stratified nature of the health care systems that provide them care. Social literacy provides a broader framework for health literacy-one that is situated within the patient's social context through which complex care management RNs must navigate for self-management goals to be achieved.
Item Description:2333-3936
10.1177/2333393621993451