Authors

  1. Watts, Sharon A. DNP, FNP-BC, CDE
  2. Stevenson, Carl BSN, RN
  3. Adams, Margaret MA, ARNP, CCNS/BC-ADM, CDE

Abstract

The CDC defines health literacy as the degree to which someone has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions.2 These skills are a prerequisite to make sense of health information and services or to provide health information and services to others.