Our U.S. healthcare system is faced with challenges; challenges which impact healthcare quality and access to care. This past year has forced all of us to take a hard look at our healthcare delivery system and make monumental changes to keep our doors open while providing life-sustaining care. Nurses have been on the front lines; innovating and changing care to meet the needs of patients. While much of the attention has focused on hospital-based care, ambulatory nurses have been a vital source of innovation and resiliency in our communities and neighborhoods. This lecture will focus on the importance of ambulatory nurses and the need for this segment of the workforce to continue to drive healthcare innovation to improve not only access to care but the quality of care delivered.
Presenter
Wendy L. Wright DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP
Presenter Bio:
Wendy Wright has worked in nursing for three decades. She has been an NP for the past 27 years. Wendy owns and operate two NP owned clinics in NH with more than 6500 patients. She has developed a model of care, which has been recognized on the state, and national level for quality based, comprehensive primary care. Wendy has also founded seven different businesses which continue to operate today.
Learning Outcome(s)
At the conclusion of this presentation, (at least 75% of) learners will be able to describe how ambulatory nurses can incorporate opportunities for innovation into their daily practice.
Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
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