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A comprehensive primary health care delivery model.

Primary health care has emerged as a key element in the health care delivery system. A well-organized system of primary care is needed to reduce the fragmented, often parallel approaches currently seen in the delivery of health care. Important aspects of primary care include not only comprehensive services and continuity of care to the individual client but health assessment and intervention to meet the community needs as a whole. A nursing model is presented for comprehensive interdisciplinary primary health care practice, education, and research. A unique aspect of this model is the partnership with the community, which is an essential component for operationalization of the model. Use of this model will provide an opportunity for cost-effective, acceptable, accessible, and holistic health care that better meets the needs of the community.

Community Health Planning↗

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Nurse-managed primary care in a rural community. Outcomes of five years of practice.

Nursing centers offer underserved populations affordable access to primary health care. But to build their case for inclusion in managed care plans and the health care delivery systems of the future, they must document their successes.

Adolescent↗

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Interdisciplinarity: the story of a journey.

Everywhere we turn, interdisciplinarity has become a key concept guiding health care education and practice. Granting agencies call for it. Educational and health policy makers extol its virtues. Accreditation agencies across health disciplines recommend it as a competency for the present and future. But what is it? How do we get it from our educational and practice systems that are compartmentalized by claims to discipline-specific knowledge, tradition, and the flow of dollars from funding sources? What is it like after we do get it? And most of all, why would we ever want it in the first place? We have had some significant experience within our Division of Health Sciences in interdisciplinary teaching, practice, and scholarship. Our experience was initially framed by implementation of one of the seven W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Partnerships for Health Professions Education grants. The grant brought the education of medical, nursing, and other health professions students out of the hospital to interdisciplinary primary care experiences in and with the community. We will never tell you we have a straightforward prescription for success. Living interdisciplinarity, like living life itself, is something that frequently poses more questions than it answers. We will, with enthusiasm, share with you what we have learned in our unique journey together in hopes that you and your colleagues will find something useful for your own voyage into interdisciplinarity.

Clinical Competence↗