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Volume 4
Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
Nursing Summit 2018
November 08-09, 2018
November 08-09, 2018 Sydney, Australia
25
th
World Congress on
Nursing & Healthcare
J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846-C3-009
Innovative advanced practice nursing education that promotes and instills inter professional
education and collaborative practice utilizing mobile medical health clinics
Ameanthea Blanco-Knezovich and Jessica Parrott
South University, USA
I
APNE is educational and healthcare delivery model with a two-fold purpose of creating a built, yet flexible environment
that promotes, fosters and extends inter professional collaborative practice for service agencies, while improving the Health-
Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL) for underserved populations. This innovative practice is a system transforming model that
achieves theWorld Health Organization’s (WHO) call for inter professional education and collaborative practice and the United
States’ Healthy People 2020 objective of increase in self-reported better physical andmental health for the adult population. This
practice model of IAPNE utilizes HRQOL initiatives that encompass physical, mental, emotional and social functioning. These
four areas are addressed through a Mobile Medical Health Clinic (MMHC) that includes the inter professional education and
collaboration of nurse practitioners, baccalaureate prepared nurses, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physical therapists,
chiropractors, health managers, social work, mental health providers, barber/beauticians and spiritual guides. This delivery
model works to improves access and coordination of health-services for vulnerable populations while decreasing tension
among service agencies. The setting of the MMHC further works to increase patient and practitioner satisfaction, promote
greater acceptance of treatment, reduce health-care cost and improve mental and emotional health. The culture shift that has
been created by IAPNE has provided students of service agencies with an understanding and consideration of vulnerable,
underserved populations and instilled the necessity of inter-professional collaboration with the professional obligation to
support communities for which they serve.
ablanco-knezovich@southuniversity.edu