Strategies to Integrate Health Equity into a Canadian NP Program

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Strategies to Integrate Health Equity into a Canadian NP Program Ames, Amanda

Abstract

Healthcare is a known determinant of health. Inequitable health care is detrimental to people’s health and perpetuates a gradient of health status. Despite decades of governmental and organizational commitments to equity, the social gradient of health persists. Provision of equity oriented healthcare can result in improved health while reducing the social gradient of health. Novice Nurse Practitioners need to understand and incorporate equity-informed care to facilitate optimal health of individuals and the population. Provision of equitable healthcare requires knowledge and skills grounded in social justice and the provision of equity-oriented care. A brief appraisal of University of British Columbia’s second year Nurse Practitioner graduate students (n=15) highlighted an educational need for equity-oriented care. Health sectors and educational institutes are accountable to support preparedness of novice NPs. Current models of education and health sector practices do not optimize the provision of equity-oriented care. Curricula changes are necessary to promote proficient provision of equity-oriented care.

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Title	Strategies to Integrate Health Equity into a Canadian NP Program
Creator	Ames, Amanda
Date Issued	2017-04
Description	Healthcare is a known determinant of health. Inequitable health care is detrimental to people’s health and perpetuates a gradient of health status. Despite decades of governmental and organizational commitments to equity, the social gradient of health persists. Provision of equity oriented healthcare can result in improved health while reducing the social gradient of health. Novice Nurse Practitioners need to understand and incorporate equity-informed care to facilitate optimal health of individuals and the population. Provision of equitable healthcare requires knowledge and skills grounded in social justice and the provision of equity-oriented care. A brief appraisal of University of British Columbia’s second year Nurse Practitioner graduate students (n=15) highlighted an educational need for equity-oriented care. Health sectors and educational institutes are accountable to support preparedness of novice NPs. Current models of education and health sector practices do not optimize the provision of equity-oriented care. Curricula changes are necessary to promote proficient provision of equity-oriented care.
Subject	Nurse practitioners; Health equity-oriented care; Nursing education
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. NURS 596
Date Available	2017-03-28
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0343369
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61019
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Nursing, School of
Campus	UBCV
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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