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- Nurses need to actively embrace strategies to improve population health outcomes and reduce health and other disparities. Effective strategies include a focus on the broad range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on health, advocacy directed at reducing barriers to improved population health, and engagement in policy making.
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May 11, 2021 · Changing health outcomes will require action at all levels—upstream, midstream, and downstream—and nurses have a major role at all levels in reducing gaps in clinical outcomes and improving health care equity.
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
Jun 9, 2022 · Nurses can embrace their power and influence by developing education and certification programs that integrate these silos, teaching emerging nurses how to work across disciplines to improve health care.
Jun 9, 2022 · Taken together, these comprehensive recommendations offer a roadmap to rebuild and revitalize the public health nursing workforce to better protect our nation’s health, address the social determinants of health, and advance health equity.
Nurses are perfectly positioned to bring together public health, health care, social services, education, and public policy. The health of communities can flourish within a system that supports health outcomes and wellness instead of simply capturing patient visits.
It will be more productive if health care organizations take a more patient-centered strategy, applaud patients for efforts to get to appointments, work collaboratively with patients to facilitate health care access and utilization to reduce health disparities.
May 11, 2021 · Nurses can lead teams, promote community health, advocate for systems change and health policy, foster the redesign of nursing education, and advance efforts to achieve health equity.
May 11, 2021 · Next, it describes opportunities for nurses to improve health equity through four approaches: addressing social needs in clinical settings, addressing social needs and SDOH in the community, working across disciplines and sectors to meet multiple needs, and advocating for policy change.
