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LO 14.1 Health Literacy Nurses have been providing educational information to patients since the late 1800s, but health literacy is a recent concept. Florence Nightingale’s efforts incorporated the importance of patient education into the nursing profession. Chapter 1 provides additional information on Nightingale. Although discussion of Nightingale’s work often focuses on her efforts to distinguish nursing as a profession and address the impact of sanitation on health, she advocated exploring