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Using Social Justice to Teach Policy, Advocacy and Scholarship in a DNP Program

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Daily Theme: Growing as Leaders Through Education and Practice

Although ethical content is required for all levels of nursing education, it frequently gets short shrift. Social justice is the branch of ethics that addresses the justice of relations between groups, such as populations, programs, policies and organizations. Likewise, although nursing as a profession has a commitment to social justice, this branch of ethics also often gets short shrift in nursing education. And, we know very little about the best way to teach it. Students also sometimes find ethical content too far removed from “real” nursing, not clinically focused enough, and social justice even farther removed.Find out more »

Opening Session: Improving access to healthcare: Nurse practitioners answering the call

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Opening Session

Welcome to Frontier Nursing University’s virtual event in celebration of National Nurse Practitioner Week and our opening session: Improving access to healthcare: Nurse practitioners answering the call.

Nurse practitioners are poised to increase access to primary care. The number of NPs has increased to 234,000. This presentation will review provider data in primary care and discuss ways to improve nurse practitioner practice to increase access to healthcare.Find out more »

Virtual Circle-Up Session for Family Care

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October 10, 2015: 10am – 11am

Join Frontier Nursing University Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, Preceptors, Supporters and Friends from across the country for this virtual circle-up session. By joining this session for only a few minutes, you will be demonstrating your support of meeting the challenge of providing quality care to all families worldwide.

The “Circle-Up” session is a Frontier Nursing University tradition students, faculty, and staff have participated in for decades. At the end of each campus experience, students, faculty and staff join hands to form a circle. Each person in the circle is invited to reflect or share their thoughts, emotions or take-away points from the event they have just experienced. It is a time to show appreciation to one another and to the Frontier experience as a whole.Find out more »

The UF Health Birth Center- Notes from the Nest in North Florida

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October 8, 2015: 12pm – 1pm

Cynthia Williams, Director at UF Health Birth Center, will share insights on how their team of providers work together to offer the best possible care for women. The UF Health midwifery team is composed of 2 CNMs, and 3 LMs who work closely with the College of Medicine, Dept of OB-GYN physicians. Hear how this birth center listens to mothers-to-be and creates a unique center offering a comfortable, calming, home-like environment where mothers can give birth in a soothing setting with their loved ones and family around them. “This is something a lot of women want, and we want to provide it for them, but we want to do it in the safest way possible,” said Guy Benrubi, MD, FACOG, University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville senior associate dean for faculty affairs and chair of obstetrics and gynecology.Find out more »

Collaborative Approach to Global Maternity Healthcare

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October 6, 2015: 6pm – 8pm

After traveling to Haiti in 2003 as part of a medical team, Nadene Brunk, CNM, witnessed first hand the lack of resources and skilled care for pregnant women. Determined to provide a long term solution, Nadene formed a small team of volunteer midwives and medical professionals and soon returned to Haiti. At the request of a Haitian community leader, she established a culturally appropriate training program for Haitian nurses in Hinche. Today that program is known as Midwives for Haiti.  As of 2015, Midwives for Haiti has graduated nearly 100 Skilled Birth Attendants.  These women and mean, armed with the knowledge and skills to educate and care for their own communities, will be the change-makers of Haiti.Find out more »

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