Clinical Communication Workshop

Melanoma Nursing Program

Equipping nurses to build health literacy and develop consumer-focused health communication strategies

June 5, 2025, 10:00am-2:00pm (AEST)

This interactive session aims to equip nurses with skills and strategies to support good health literacy and health communication within the context of complex decisions and information for people affected by a melanoma diagnosis.

Learning outcomes

Nurses will have the knowledge to facilitate positive health literacy and communication to people impacted by a melanoma diagnosis, in the context of their own nursing practice and environment.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have greater confidence in:

key health communication principles and strategies to support health literacy in health care users.
co-design and quality improvement approaches to apply these strategies in practice.
teach-back techniques as a strategy for health literacy and communication.
consumer insights into what facilitates good health communication.

Audience: MIA program nurses - live event.

Pre reading: TBA

Facilitator

A/Prof Alison Beauchamp
Associate Professor, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, School of Rural Health, Monash University

Alison is an Associate Professor at Monash School of Rural Health. Her research focuses on the co-design of health literacy interventions that aim to improve access and equity of care. She currently leads two studies to improve health literacy among culturally diverse and rural Australians, and as part of her current Fellowship has established a cohort study of 450 patients to understand the role of health literacy in cardiovascular outcomes.
Alison has a background as a Registered Nurse, primarily working in cardiac secondary prevention.