Nursing: Newborn / Maternal Care

The mission of the Perinatal Institute is to improve the health of newborns through innovation in clinical care, research and education.

Information about sick newborns for professionals and families.

 

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Information Rx has free information prescription pads and materials. An information prescription can be help practitioners and patients.

The AHRQ page helps patients learn how to ask the right questions of health professionals to make better health care decisions and receive better care. 

My Quality Improvement (MyQI) has the goal to deliver safe, high-quality health care to patients in clinical settings.  

Adults age 50+ often use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but many do not discuss it with health care providers. Time to Talk to opens dialogue between patients and providers about the use of herbs, supplements, and other CAM therapies. 

The University of Washington Medical Center's tips to increase awareness about cultural beliefs and preferences for specific patient populations who are deaf and hard of hearing: Albanian, Latino, Russian, Somali and several Asian groups. 

Hablamos Juntos (“we speak together”) from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Fresno Center for Medical Education & Research designed to help improve patient-provider communications for Latinos. 

This well-designed toolkit can be used as a medical practice assessment and improvement plan. The toolkit provides step-by-step guidance and tools for assessing a practice and making changes to improve communications with patients of all literacy levels.

Resources to help health care providers improve communication with patients.

This roundtable discussion offers methods for tackling the problems of health literacy, the impact of low health literacy and patient safety, and the state of health care communication.

Information and tools to improve communication with patients, from the Health Resources and Services Administration.