VII. Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving
the Nation's Health
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Analyze epidemiological, biostatistical, environment, and other appropriate scientific data related to individual, aggregate, and population health.
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Synthesize concepts, including psychosocial dimensions and cultural diversity, related to clinical prevention and population health in developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to address health promotion/disease prevention efforts, improve health status/access patterns, and/or address gaps in care of individuals, aggregates, or populations.
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Evaluate care delivery models and/or strategies using concepts related to community, environmental and occupational health, and cultural and socioeconomic dimension of health.
Exemplar #1:
NICU Design: Making Room for Our Tiniest Patients
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Created in NURS 6793, this issue brief synthesizes evidence in advocacy for single patient NICU rooms to improve neonatal outcomes in an overall effort to improve population health.
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Exemplar #2:
An Ounce of Prevention: Breastmilk Feeding Safety in the NICU
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As presented internally for Patient Safety Grand Rounds, the Health System Board of Directors meeting, and Nursing Professional Development Services Evidence-Based Practice Symposium and externally at an ECRI Institute for Patient Safety, this PowerPoint is the culmination of work for clinical prevention to reduce the risk for breast milk misadministration. To date since implementation of these strategies and processes, the NICU at UVA CH has had zero incidents of misadministration. For this project, my Breastfeeding Medicine colleague, Erica Weiler (below) and I were awarded the UVA Health System Charles Brown Award for Patient Safety.
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Reference
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American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (AACN). (2006). The essentials of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice [PDF]. https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/DNPEssentials.pdf
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