Factors explaining variability in health literacy outcomes of public health nursing clients.

Objectives: To evaluate variability in health literacy outcomes due to home visiting (HV) program components including PHN, Intervention, and Client.

Design And Sample: A comparative, correlational study evaluated PHN home visiting program data that included PHNs (N = 16); Interventions (N = 21,634); and Clients (N = 141). Client age ranged from 14 to 46 (median = 21, mean = 22.

Informing standard development and understanding user needs with omaha system signs and symptoms text entries in community-based care settings.

The Omaha System is one of the most widely used standards for documentation in community-based settings. While researchers have focused upon this extensible classification scheme to understand and summarize structured data, few studies have analyzed the use of associated text. Two years of client records were accessed from two diverse sites utilizing the Omaha System 2005 revision: a skilled homecare, hospice, and palliative care program and a maternal child health home visiting program.