title: Caring Across the Continuum: A Call to Nurse Leaders to Manifest Values Through Action With Community Outreach.
abstract: As health reform continues to advance, there is a need for nurse leaders to broaden their perspective related to possible nursing practice models and potential community partners in order to successfully address caring, accomplish the triple aim mandate, and achieve suitable metrics for maximum reimbursement. Intentional efforts must be made by nurse leaders to maximize caring and ensure that professional nurses are responding to the key drivers shifting health care delivery in the 21st century. Academic-practice collaboration (APC) and community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) align well. Together, they provide an ideal mechanism to pursue endeavors that extend evidence for caring services across the health care continuum. One APC/CBPAR model for community outreach that can maximize individual and population health outcomes is highlighted in this article. Furthermore, useful action steps are offered that could be taken by a nurse leader to develop and maintain any form of APC/CBPAR in order to manifest values through caring action across the health care continuum.
authors.affiliation: Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (Drs Dyess and Opalinski); and Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Dr Saiswick and Ms Fox).
authors.forename: Susan MacLeod
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Dyess
authors.forename: Andra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Opalinski
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saiswick
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D004645:Empathy; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States