Betty Rambur<\/a>, the Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, convened the meeting to identify goals and strategies to achieve excellence in nursing in the state and to empower nurses as leaders in an evolving health care landscape. \u201cWe have an opportunity to reshape the face of health care. It really is an ethical imperative,\u201d Rambur said.<\/p>\n\u201cWe need the voices of nurses at every table,\u201d Brooks noted as he outlined the challenges of creating consensus, developing priorities and implementing policies and programs that bring real change. \u201cNurses are on the front line; they see what is working and what\u2019s not working. They have much to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n
His comments came on the heels of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo\u2019s announcement that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will award $129.5 million to the state over five years to enhance health care for Medicaid patients, which account for one third of Rhode Island\u2019s population. The program includes $6 million for the state\u2019s public colleges to develop health care workforce curricula and programming.<\/p>\n
Brooks and Rambur noted that while the United States spends far more than any other country on health care, it realizes only mediocre outcomes. To change that, teams of interdisciplinary health professionals must come together in new ways to achieve health care\u2019s Triple Aim Initiative: Better care, smarter spending and healthier people, Brooks said. This includes looking at the system holistically, from how providers are paid and outcomes are measured to how people receive care, with an emphasis on eroding health disparities based on income, ethnicity, culture or geography, he said.<\/p>\n
That shift to interdisciplinary teams of care and practice will mean greater roles for nurses as team leaders, especially as the model moves away from acute care settings. This shift will emphasize new areas for training and advancement, including such non-licensed professionals as peer counselors and community health workers, Brooks noted. Community-based health strategies focused on keeping people in their homes whenever possible will rely on emerging technologies, occupations and methods, all of which require new approaches to education, training and implementation, he told the group.<\/p>\n
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