Navigating the Challenges of Health Literacy Integration in Nursing: Effects on Cardiac Patient Mental Satisfaction in Low-Resource Settings

Abstract

Improving patient outcomes requires incorporating health literacy into nursing practice, especially for cardiac patients in low-resource settings. This study looks at the difficulties nurses have in putting health literacy techniques into practice and how they affect cardiac patients’ emotional satisfaction. The ability to get, comprehend, and apply health information is known as health literacy, and it is crucial for enabling patients to manage their health successfully. The successful incorporation of health literacy into nursing practice is severely hampered in low-resource areas by obstacles like a lack of educational resources, insufficient training, and systemic issues with healthcare. This study finds critical nurse interventions that help raise health literacy and boost patient satisfaction through a thorough literature review and qualitative analysis. The suggested model strongly emphasizes the value of health literacy testing, specialized teaching methods, a caring medical setting, and frequent patient satisfaction surveys. The results imply that improving health literacy substantially raises patients’ mental contentment and involvement in their care and improves their comprehension of their medical issues. This study emphasizes how critical health literacy instruction is to be included in nursing education programs and that healthcare systems provide funding for health literacy programs. Nurses can significantly improve patient satisfaction and health outcomes in cardiac care by overcoming the obstacles related to health literacy integration, which will eventually improve healthcare delivery in areas with limited resources.