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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Transforming primary care across transition settings
Beth Ann Swan
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
I
n the United States, healthcare is undergoing unprecedented change. Concurrently, a movement is underway to transform
primary care through enhanced models of care delivery, such as transitional care nursing and the expanded use of
interprofessional care teams. With a predicted shortage of primary care providers, and a supply of over 3.7 million registered
nurses (RNs) available in the workforce, there is a renewed emphasis for all RN roles to function at the top of their scope
of practice and education. Additionally, increasing incidence and prevalence of chronic conditions and obesity, as well as
increasing volumes of aging Americans is contributing to the strain on primary care. Newly emerging models that recognize
the value of the RN in care coordination and transition management, and complex care in the management chronic disease,
admission avoidance, and prevention have opened opportunities for RNs in all ambulatory care settings, including primary
care. This presentation will describe and discuss: 1) rationale supporting the movement toward transitional care nursing in
primary care, 2) enhanced roles for RNs as part of a larger, more integrated care delivery team, 3) need for engaging schools
of nursing and healthcare delivery systems in support for optimizing education and practice, and 4) the role of system level
leadership in the promotion and use of RNs in enhanced primary care roles.
Biography
Beth Ann Swan is Professor and former Dean at the Jefferson College of Nursing. Swan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, past president of the
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, and a 2007-2010 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. Swan has a distinguished record of extramural
funding, publications, and presentations nationally and internationally on topics related to ambulatory care, care coordination and transition management, and
technology applications for education and practice. She is Co-Editor of the text,
Care Coordination and Transition Management Core Curriculum
. Swan received
her PhD and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and BSN from Holy Family University.
bethannswan@gmail.comBeth Ann Swan, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061