237390 Implications of the Future of Nursing IOM Report and the Affordable Care Act for Public Health Nursing

Sunday, October 30, 2011: 3:05 PM

Susan J. Zahner, DrPH, RN , School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
The health care and public health systems are evolving and public health nurses should play a fundamental role in this transformation. This session will outline implications of the Affordable Care Act and the Institute of Medicine Report for the public health nursing specialty and opportunities for public health nurses to influence the evolving health care and public health systems. These will include expanding their role to take on broader policy challenges; establishing, maintaining, and strengthening community partnerships; foster team-based approaches to complex issues; utilizing more evidence-based prevention strategies, increasing technology fluency to retrieve, share and mine data on public health nursing outcomes; increasing more strategies to address the social determinants of health in public health nursing programs; and increasing public health nursing contributions to quality improvement and accreditation activities. The session will conclude with participant discussion and critique of public health nursing practices that are evolving in response to health reform.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related nursing

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. Identify one public health nursing implication for each of the five IOM Future of Nursing recommendations 2. Describe two contributions to the evolving health system that are unique to public health nursing 3. List two best practice/emerging practice models of public health nursing that have developed in response to health reform

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a specialty in public health nursing. I am the Project Director for a grant funded project linking academia and public health practice to improve preparation for public health nursing. I conduct research and publish on topics related to public health agency and public health nursing performance.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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