Closing Session

This “reflections” session will reflect on many of the key messages from the sessions shared during FNU’s 2017 Virtual Event for National Nurse Practitioner Week. Are you wondering “How can I make a difference?” or “What steps can I take to make a change?” Join us as we reflect on some of the key take-aways from the week and the action steps that you can take as a current or future nurse practitioner to truly make a difference in family care.Find out more »

Daily Theme: Collaborating for Family-Centered Care

In South Africa, families have deficient knowledge of early childhood development. Families are often not included in their child’s health care decisions. The new, school-based health center had no wellness visits, family-centered care model or health education in place prior to the intervention. The project aim was to increase family-centered care by 30% by engaging in open communication with parents and guardians of children under six at the school-based health center over 90 days. Find out more »

Daily Theme: Collaborating for Family-Centered Care

The similarities between birth and death are striking. There is a sacredness in being in the presence of someone taking their first and last breath. Advocates for both insist they are natural processes that deliver hope, empower patients, while avoiding distress. However, rather than embracing this concept, palliative and EOL care has been stigmatized in the United States and is most evident in the training of healthcare providers. Find out more »

Daily Theme: Creating a Culture of Caring in Service to Families

Over half of the U.S. population has suffered least one adverse childhood experience, which includes various types of abuse and household dysfunction. Health literature has repeatedly linked adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with unfavorable adult health outcomes including mental illness, various chronic illnesses, disability, and early death. Toxic stress resulting from ACEs affects brain development in infants and young children and changes the architecture of the brain. These changes influence behavior, learning, and overall health. In order to provide appropriate care to ACE survivors, it is important for nurse practitioners to be aware of the detrimental effects of ACEs on adult health.Find out more »

Daily Theme: Improving Care Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

The LGBTQ population is one that is often discriminated or invisible in health care. As a Nurse Practitioner in a large urban student health center, my passion for working with this population fostered this quality improvement project in pursuit of the DNP at Frontier. It established a means to identify patients who identify as gender and sexual minorities through the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information and move the student health center towards providing right care to avoid health disparities for these patients. Through the process of project design and implementation I found my voice and the confidence to become a leader. This presentation will review my personal journey to Frontier’s DNP program, introduce the concept of SOGI, review health disparities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients, review my project implementation, discuss how it will continue to grow and be applied to my community and review how the DNP has changed my practice.Find out more »

Daily Theme: Improving Care Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

The integration of mental health services into the primary care setting is in close alignment with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) triple aim to increase patient satisfaction and access to care, improved health of communities, and decrease per capita costs of care. The purpose of this project was to examine the efficacy of a model of care that fully integrated mental health services into the primary care milieu. Efficacy of this model of care was examined using the IHI triple aim. Improved population health was measured by the number of calls received and handled by the mental health crisis team. Reduction in the per capita cost of care was analyzed by comparing the number of crisis calls handled through the integrated model of care to local emergency room visits involving a mental health diagnosis.Find out more »

Daily Theme: Caring for Rural, Diverse and Underserved Populations

Objectives:
1. To present a review of health disparities for African American men
2. Use of case studies from male inmates to illustrate health disparities
3. A discussion of awareness and possible approaches to health disparitiesFind out more »

Daily Theme: Caring for Rural, Diverse and Underserved Populations

This session will highlight the work of nurse Maude Callen who provided care the poor, and women of color in the South from 1920-1970’s. The presentation will focus on cultural competency when providing care to communities of color and vulnerable, underserved populations.Find out more »

Daily Theme: Caring for Rural, Diverse and Underserved Populations

This presentation will focus on the specific needs of LGBT population and how they might be met by the advanced practice nurse. Topics will include health disparities, health concerns for both youth and aging LGBT patients, and how healthcare providers can improve.Find out more »

The CE session video will remain available until November 13, 2019.

Advanced practice registered nurses are expert clinicians who take a comprehensive approach to healthcare, using clinical expertise to diagnose and treat health conditions in primary, acute and specialty care settings with a focus on disease prevention and health management. The APRN’s scope of practice varies by state, with autonomous practice in only 24 states. These clinicians have lobbied for a unified Consensus Model for independent practice across the United States allowing them to practice to their full educational level. A recent change in narcotic medication scheduling has created yet another barrier for APRNs.Find out more »