Background: To have an impact on population health outcomes, it is essential for pre-licensure nursing students to be educated on knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to effectively deliver primary care nursing across the care continuum…

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to show improvement in clinical functions, i.e., staffing, provider availability, and safety over a four-year historical overview…

Purpose: Develop, implement, and evaluate an asynchronous web-based preceptor training that reinforces the scientific and ethical principles of nursing while further supporting the evolving role of the registered nurse in ambulatory care…

The Air Force continually prides itself on providing excellent patient care while excelling at performance standards…

Background: Currently primary care is characterized by many distinct providers and services leading to fragmented, uncoordinated care where follow-up appointments and important interventions are easily missed, challenging the ability of healthcare professionals to provide high quality, efficient, a…

Introduction: The primary focus of “passport” is to improve the patient experience for patients and families with special needs, with a focus on autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…

In 2014, the VA began a pilot in the northwest to bring team-based primary care gap coverage to sites experiencing provider shortages. Care would follow the VA’s patient-aligned care team (PACT) model, with a twist…

Identify how an ambulatory clinical coordinating council gives nursing a voice not often heard in the ambulatory care setting in a business-driven, service line environment…

Matching staffing to workload is crucial to efficient operations. At a major academic medical center, the journey to optimize staffing in the ambulatory care setting began in 2017 with a workgroup of administrators and analysts to develop a system to accurately track staffing…