Taking action : top 10 priorities to promote health equity and well-being in nursing /
Top ten priorities to promote health equity and well-being in nursing
Susan B. Hassmiller, Gaea A. Daniel.
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 209 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Health equity -- This is a journey: dismantling structural racism -- Building social capital in nursing: doing with intention -- Health equity and Black maternal mortality -- Redistribute power over data, definitions, and decision-making -- Nurses as champions for bridging the health equity gap -- Our hope for the future -- 2. Education reform -- The who, what, how, and when of nursing workforce diversity -- Demographics, diversity, education, and health outcomes -- Achieving health equity through academic progression -- Progressing beyond holistic admissions: promoting student success to transform the nursing workforce -- A tool to promote cultural humility to advance academic success for American Indian/Alaska Native nursing students -- 3. Diversity and mentorship -- Students who look like me -- Diversity in mentorship and sponsorship for nursing leadership development -- Mentoring to diversify -- One strategy to increase nursing workforce diversity -- Academia and practice: partnering for diversity -- Mentoring minoritized nursing students in an anti-racist era -- Now, more than ever, diversity matters -- 4. Care delivery: quality, safety, access -- Health-related social needs: acknowledging and impacting national inequalities -- A personal journey to improving maternal health -- Addressing the crack in the healthcare foundation -- Improving healthcare by meeting people where they are -- Harnessing the power of nursing to improve care delivery for marginalized populations -- 5. Multi-sector collaboration -- The unexpected power (and joy) of cross-sector collaborations -- Going together -- Commitment to advancing health equity with Hispanic/Latinx communities through multi-sector collaboration -- The school nurses' collaborative role in health equity for students -- Taking advantage of a crisis to forge new multi-sector collaborations -- Addressing health equity together -- 6. Preparing for disasters and public health emergencies -- The American Red Cross: volunteering in times of disasters -- Leveraging disaster recovery for community preparedness -- Disaster response: helping those who help others -- Preparing for disasters and public health emergencies -- Learning lessons from COVID-19: upstream fishing to mend downstream implications -- 7. Innovation and entrepreneurship -- Technology as a health equity lever -- Empowering nurses to own our pivotal role in advancing technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship for health equity and healthcare transformation -- The benefits of nurse-led innovation and the barriers to overcome -- Technology improvements to promote digital health equity -- Innovation approaches to increasing equity and decreasing harm -- 8. Nurse well-being: compassion for self and others -- Restoring respect, compassion, and equity by fostering nurse well-being -- Resiliency, a double-edged sword: improving the culture and climate of nursing -- Crossing the cultural chasm between mental health stigma and care-seeking behaviors in nursing -- Self-care is not selfish -- 9. Global stewardship -- Nurses as champions for global health equity -- Nurses caring for their communities around the world -- Region of the Americas: health systems and nursing -- Addressing the worldwide nursing workforce shortage: "there's no justice... just us" -- Global stewardship: reimagining the adage "think global, act local" in the post-pandemic world - every nurse's business -- 10. Nursing's voice in leading change -- Unmute us: the power of diverse voices in nursing and leadership -- Finding our voice of advocacy -- Voice of nursing from the front lines -- Pandemic school nursing - another front line -- Nurses you should know: inclusive storytelling designed to expand the nursing narrative -- The voice of advocacy: if not you, then who? -- Afterword: History as a guide to envision a more equitable and just future.
Moving beyond conversation to action in nursing. The crucible of the global pandemic, racial injustice, and a crippling nursing shortage has sparked increasing calls for nursing to address its own problems, from inequity to structural racism. In response, authors Susan B. Hassmiller and Gaea A. Daniel enlisted nearly 70 national and international nursing leaders to tackle the most pressing issues confronting the profession. Spotlights 10 critical themes through data, essays, discussion points, and action items, equipping readers to move beyond conversation to action.