Incorporating concepts of population health within the context of family nursing

5^th International Conference on Family Nursing

June 13-15, 2016 Philadelphia, USA

Sharon K Byrne and Katie Hoovan

The College of New Jersey, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

The goal of the Population Health Program is to improve health and wellness in patient populations. Disparities can negatively impact individual/family or community subsets that have experienced access, resource or socioeconomic obstacles to health and wellness. As such, it is important to understand the determinants that impact health outcomes at the population level. Familycentric nursing in both the educational and practice arena can broaden its impact through incorporating concepts from population health to enhance the well-being of persons across the lifespan in local community and broader global settings. The Department of Nursing at one state college has made an effort to incorporate Population Health and its tenets into the curriculum to create change. Grant funding through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has supported strategies utilized in the transition. The strategies include, but are not limited to; educating faculty, students, and affiliated clinical settings and their providers about issues involved in determining population health; utilizing existing research evidence or best practice interventions in the planning and delivery of care; increasing interprofessional collaboration; mobilizing existing community resources to achieve better health outcomes; and the use of informatics and technology. Lessons learned in developing knowledge, establishing learning objects, and offering clinical experiences that promote competencies in population-based health care will be shared. Highlights will include a discussion of learning experiences of nursing students involved in an academic-practice partnership within an underserved urban area and a global health medical mission with a NGO to address population health disparities in a resource poor environment.

Biography :

Sharon K Byrne completed her DrNP at Drexel University. She is a Co-chair and an Assistant Professor of Nursing at The College of New Jersey. She serves as an Advanced Practice Nurse within a NJCEED funded program, where she delivers cancer education and care to individuals from underserved communities. She is a volunteer FNP in Haiti with primary care medical missions to individuals across the lifespan. She has published and presented in the area of global health and cancer outreach and is a peer reviewer for nursing, medical and public health journals.

Email: byrnes@tcnj.edu