Voice of Nursing Leadership | March 2020
This issue showcases examples of nurses improving health in the community, nursing leadership in congress, nurses response to human trafficking and utilizing data to transform health care.
As we continue to transform the delivery of care across the continuum, the role of the nurse in the community is transforming with it. Caring for our community has come to mean many different things—a much broader focus than the traditional role of the community health nurse...Continue reading.
When I first met Lauren Underwood in 2009, I knew she was a young nurse on a mission and destined to make her mark no matter where she went. Over the span of ten years she has gone from a practicing nurse to one of the youngest members of the 116th Congress, elected in November 2018. I recently interviewed Rep. Underwood, allowing her to share her experiences and insights with nurse leaders...Continue reading.
Each night 553,000 individuals in the United States are considered homeless (Wadhera, Choi, Shen, Yeh, & Maddox, 2019). The homeless community experiences daily challenges around sources of food and water, an option for shelter and safety from violence on the streets...Continue reading.
Understanding the influence that social determinants of health (SDH) have on health disparities is paramount to the holistic care of vulnerable populations and requires identifying those SDH which create inequities. Recently, Healthy People 2020 (2019) addressed this with a framework identifying five key areas that can be utilized to develop strategies to create equal opportunity for all...Continue reading.
Laura Castellanos, associate director at the American Hospital Association, discusses how to develop a human trafficking victim identification and response program...Continue reading.
Many patients receive specialty care in the outpatient setting. While patients are spending more time in ambulatory care settings, they are spending more money there too. Emergency visits are a large part of outpatient spending, and costs have increased by 34% from 2012 to 2016 (Health Care Cost Institute, 2018)...Continue reading.
As with most safety net hospitals, a large percentage of the patient population treated at Grady Health System in Atlanta has multiple comorbidities compounded by social determinants of health directly impacting access and utilization of local health care services (Bell, Turbow, George, & Ali, 2017)...Continue reading.
