KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 13, 2016 \u2013 Throughout her distinguished nursing career, Betty Rambur has taken the long\u2014and wide\u2014view of her profession. The new Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, Rambur has worked to reform health care payment systems and address disparities in the quality of and access to care across diverse populations. \u201cOne of my particular concerns is mobilizing nurses to re-imagine the span of their roles to solve vexing problems in society,\u201d says Rambur.<\/p>\n
This month, her expansive vision for the role of nurses in transforming health care will be recognized when she becomes a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. This peer-nominated credential from an organization with members in all 50 states and 28 countries recognizes contributions to nursing that have lasting impact.<\/p>\n
Rambur, of North Kingstown<\/strong>, believes nursing education and research must create professionals and nurse scientists who are experts not just in health and health care, but in cost containment and improved patient outcomes, and she hopes to spread that message further as an Academy fellow. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to take what you know and give back through the role of an academy member,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n This former dean of Nursing and Health Science at the University of Vermont believes so strongly in the importance of nursing\u2019s larger role in improving health care that she wrote a textbook that aims to give nursing students the knowledge to lead at the bedside and<\/em> in the boardroom: \u201cHealth Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses: A Foundational Guide.\u201d<\/p>\n Rambur\u2019s philosophy of cross-pollination puts her right at home in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s newly formed Academic Health Collaborative, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach to health professions through instruction and research that bridges several colleges.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 13, 2016 \u2013 Throughout her distinguished nursing career, Betty Rambur has taken the long\u2014and wide\u2014view of her profession. The new Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, Rambur has worked to reform health care payment systems and address disparities in the quality of and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}