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BY LISA SIMMONS-FIELDS, DNP, MSA, RN, CCM, CPHQ, AND LIBBY JACOBSON, MPH Objectives: Increase care management and patient engagement and decrease average risk scores in care managed populations. Background: Transformational nurse leaders have the capacity to influence the professional competencies and engagement of care management teams and the patients they serve. Methods: The project design is a prospective, mixed method […]

BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM, WITH NICOLE M. MEREDITH, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM The United States of America, one of the world’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries, has a Black and Brown maternal and infant health crisis. Healthcare costs in the U.S. are twice the expenditures of other wealthy countries. Despite its wealth

BY TINA R. MCDANIEL CHENG, MSN, RN, CCDS, AND LAUREN PFEIFER, PhD, RN, CCDS Pediatric patients are not little adults. Due to their unique physiological and developmental needs, children often are diagnosed with medical conditions that differ substantially from their adult counterparts. One difference is that due to their immature immune systems, children are more

BY JULIET B. UGARTE HOPKINS, MD Just as the role of physician advisors has come to the forefront of the healthcare world over the last decade and a half, so too has the subset of pediatric physician advisors in recent years. While, previously, their scope and unique focus was side-stepped by the greater community due