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Title:
Nurses’ Oral Health Initiative for the Underserved
Grant number:
1-D11-HP-00146-01
Funded by:
Bureau of Health Professionals Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA)
Years granted:
September 2000 – July 2004
The purpose of this
three-year project is twofold: 1) to provide oral health care
for vulnerable populations and, 2) to address national workforce
concerns. The
target populations for the provision of oral health care include
urban American Indians, homeless women and children, and
low-income elderly. The
persons targeted for enhancement of a diverse and culturally
competent and sensitive health professions workforce are
students from a local high school, students and faculty within
the College of Nursing. This
project is critically needed because of the disparity of care
for persons with low income.
The relationship between poverty and poor health is
significant. Oral
health is an area of health care that has often been overlooked
or trivialized.
This project will
address the need for oral health care by providing assessment of
need by the Nurse practitioners who practice in one of the four
satellite clinics of the Center for Nursing.
Treatment of oral health needs will be provided by
opening the Akron Health Department’s Dental Clinic additional
hours specifically for the treatment of those person’s
referred by the nurse practitioners from the Center for Nursing.
This project will
address nursing workforce issues by providing opportunities for
undergraduate and graduate nursing student’s clinical
experiences that include working with ethically diverse
populations. Implementation
of the goals of this project will require that students 1) be
culturally sensitive, 2) view health care from a systems
perspective, 3) use critical thinking and problem solving, 4)
provide for the management of patients, and 5) integrate
principles of holistic care throughout the clinical experience.
Another aspect of addressing workforce issues is
increasing enrollment and retention of minority students in
nursing. This
project provides for exposure of students to nursing roles
through the activities of Pre-Nursing Clubs in a high school
that has a high percentage of minority students.
The University of Akron already has a Collaboration
Initiative with Central-Hower to prepare students for college.
The activities proposed in this grant will build upon
that initiative while addressing national workforce needs.
The project goals
will be evaluated both formatively and summatively to assure
that the project is on target and the purpose is being
fulfilled. Linkages
among the College of Nursing, Center for Nursing, Akron Health
Department, and Akron City School System will facilitate
accomplishment of the purposes of this proposal.
Taken collectively, the structural underpinnings of the
project are secure; funding is necessary to fulfill the vision.
Title:
Multidisciplinary Practicum: Serving Minorities in an
Underserved Area Community Clinic
Funded by:
Area Health Education Consortium: SPAHEC
Years granted:
September 1999 – present
 The purpose is to
increase interdisciplinary collaboration among health care
providers from various educational programs.
The focus of the project is to provide multidisciplinary
clinical experience for nursing students, medical students,
medical residents and dietetic students.
The preceptors and students work together to assess plan
and implement care.
The objectives for this project are:
1.)
Contribute to multidisciplinary care of patients.
2.)
Utilize appropriate professional skills when providing
care to patients.
3.)
Use problems based learning for didactic education.
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Title: Community Health Care Clinics
Funded by:
Akron General Health System Development Foundation
Years granted:
September 1999 - present
The outcomes of this
project are related to the following three objectives:
Objective One:
To provide primary health care to persons who do not have
health insurance and who do not qualify for federal programs.
Persons who do not
have insurance will use the clinic for primary health care.
The number of emergency department visits for this
population will decrease. Health
promotion and disease prevention is part of each health visit.
Referrals for additional health care will be timely
(rather than avoided and prolonged, due to limited access, which
then compounds health problems).
Laboratory care is provided by LabCare, at discounted
rates. Medications
that cannot be provided via drug samples are covered though a
national “needy meds” program provided by pharmaceutical
companies.
Objective Two:
To provide precepted clinical educational experiences for
medical residents and nurse practitioners.
College of nursing
faculty, nurse practitioner students, physicians, and residents
from Akron General Medical Center will provide staffing for the
clinic. Health care
learners have an opportunity to provide needed services and
learn about minority populations, community health, and
multidisciplinary care, while being precepted by faculty.
Objective Three:
Implement and educationally sound multidisciplinary
educational model of clinical education.
This experience will
supplement acute care clinical education experience.
It is our belief that when students work side by side
with faculty preceptors, the quality of the educational
experience carries over to additional experiences.
Title:
Nurse-Managed Center: Primary Care at Satellite Sites
Grant number:
1 D10 NU 30212-01
Funded by:
Bureau of Health Professionals Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA)
Years granted:
August 1995 – July 2000
Money awarded:
$650,000
Title:
American Indian Drug and Alcohol Outreach Services
Grant number:
MIH 00-1-24
Funded by:
Ohio Commission on Minority Health
Years granted:
July 1999 – July 2001
Money awarded:
$150,000
The American Indian
Drug and Alcohol Outreach Service’s Three Fires Project
offers a program to Native American Indian men and women who
reside in Summit, Cuyahoga and Stark counties who have problems
with alcohol and/or substance abuse.
The program includes participation in support meetings
led by an American Indian, storytelling, and traditional
American Indian spiritual ceremonies.
Participants receive
health care at the University of Akron College of Nursing Center
for Nursing Clinics. Health
promotion is encouraged though education health programs to
promote preventive health practices on an as needed basis.
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