Tagged With "Systems Change"

The authors are pleased to announce the Trauma and Resilience Competencies for Nursing Education. These competencies serve as a guideline of minimal expectations and reflect essential knowledge, skills and behaviors for three levels of nursing education: 1) undergraduate, 2) graduate, and 3) psychiatric nurse practitioner programs. The Trauma and Resilience Competencies, developed in 2018 at the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut by an Expert...

Please join the Project Co-Directors (TICHER Members) for an overview of 42 innovative and original (free to the pubic) virtual cases. These cases highlight a patient centered approach to the care of patients who have survived traumatic life experiences. Experiences that include, for example, sexual assault, interpersonal and community violence, military sexual trauma, and child abuse. The virtual cases comprise a comprehensive online training curriculum created for physicians and other...

Please join the Project Co-Directors (TICHER Members) for an overview of 42 innovative and original (free to the pubic) virtual cases. These cases highlight a patient centered approach to the care of patients who have survived traumatic life experiences. Experiences that include, for example, sexual assault, interpersonal and community violence, military sexual trauma, and child abuse. The virtual cases comprise a comprehensive online training curriculum created for physicians and other...

First-year medical student Sean Sweat "didn't want to tiptoe around" issues of race when she sat down with 11 of her classmates to write a new version of the medical profession's venerable Hippocratic oath. "We start our medical journey amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and a national civil rights movement reinvigorated by the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery," begins the alternate version of the oath, rewritten for the class of 2024 at the University of Pittsburgh...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

Well, said! I hope this post and your concerns gain a wide audience among PACES membership. The basic problem is access to needed and beneficial medical and mental health services for all Americans - that would be an equitable health system. SDOH (social determinants of health), CDOH (commercial) and PDOH (political - even within the analysis by Dawes from the Satcher Institute) are all convenient euphemisms allowing everyone to politely, clinically, and academically avoid dealing with the...