Teach-Back: A Health Literacy Universal Precaution (29 min.)
In this presentation, Lauren Giancola discusses teach-back as a method of educating patients and families and improving health literacy. She defines teach-back in the context of health literacy and its importance, and discusses how to implement teach-back effectively during clinical encounters. This presentation was recorded at Pediatric Asthma & Allergy Updates for Primary Care Providers on March 13, 2026.
$25.00
Description
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:
- Discuss the steps to providing effective teach-back education
- Understand health literacy in the context of using teach-back
- Discuss perceived barriers to effective teach-back
- Explore barriers to education at the bedside
In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 0.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
MOC II
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn:
0.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
Disclosure Policy
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.
Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:
Lauren Giancola, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, AE-C: None
Kenan Haver, MD: Royalties, UpToDate
Additional information
| Credit Type | ABP MOC Part II (Pediatrician), AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (MD, DO, NP, PA), Contact Hours (Nurse, Nurse Practitioner) |
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| Topic | Education and Professional Development, Emergency and Critical Care, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, Emergency Medicine, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Family Medicine, General Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Primary Care |
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