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Public Health Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Lessons Learned through Leadership and Collaboration
Description: This session will examine key advocacy strategies used in Louisiana to propose changes in the nurse practice act. These changes will allow public health nurses and advanced practice nurses from other states to practice to the full extent of their education and license and ensure an adequate disaster response team. Public health nurses are ideally suited to prepare communities to meet the challenges of disaster response. Strategies to build capacity within communities through collaboration and stakeholder engagement will be explored. With an increase in natural and human-induced disasters public health nurses are in a position to assume strong leadership roles during disaster preparedness and response. Unfortunately most nurses do not feel prepared for disasters (Baack & Alfred, 2013). Therefore, nurses will be introduced to personal leadership development plans and provided tools necessary to organize a leadership development workgroup.
Implications: Participants will leave the general session with strategies to advocate for regulatory change, engage community stakeholders, and an outline to develop a personal leadership development plan or lead a leadership development workgroup.
Baack, S., & Alfred, D. (2013). Nurses’ Preparedness and Perceived Competence in Managing Disasters. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 45(3), 281-287. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12029
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadershipPublic health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related nursing
Learning Objectives:
Identify 2 key strategies used to advocate for regulatory change to ensure disaster response capacity.
Discuss 2 skills necessary to facilitate stakeholder engagement for disaster readiness.
Detail steps for an effective leadership development workgroup to build capacity of public health professionals.
Keyword(s): Emergency Preparedness, Leadership
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a certified advanced practice public health nurse and consultant. My roles as associate professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Texas Tech Univ. School of Nursing includes course development and facilitation. Courses taught include roles development that encorporates leadership development and advancing health policy and politics.
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.