Voice of Nursing Leadership
Laura Castellanos, associate director at the American Hospital Association, discusses how to develop a human trafficking victim identification and response program.
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…
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…
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Mar. 2020
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,…
Mar. 12, 2020
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford
Grady Health System of Atlanta is an 800-bed nationally acclaimed Level l trauma center, a Baby Friendly designation, and has a comprehensive burn center and an advanced comprehensive stroke center.
Unanticipated clinical events occur within health care settings; some involve medical errors, while others may be the result of complications relating to the patient’s condition.
Nurse executives may find themselves unemployed due to restructuring or other circumstances that are voluntary or involuntary.