Practice Transformation Driven through Academic Partnerships

Transformation through partnerships.

C reating social justice involves changing inequitable systems, policies, cultures, and values, and fundamentally redefining how we understand community, health, science, knowledge, and evidence. This demands that we challenge and change the assumptions, systems, policies, culture, and values of the everyday organizations in which we work as well as the major institutions that shape and govern ...

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

Implementing innovation through education-practice partnerships.

Calls to transform the healthcare system and evolve the preparation of healthcare professionals have increased in recent years. In response to the concerns and recommendations voiced in the series of national reports, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Board of Directors initiated a series of task forces from 1999-present. The pilot Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL(trade mark)) in...

Assessing the impact of academic-practice partnerships on nursing staff

BACKGROUND The 'spillover effect' of academic-practice partnerships on hospital nursing staff has received limited attention. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) created the VA Nursing Academy (VANA) to fund fifteen partnerships between schools of nursing and local VA healthcare facilities. In this paper, we examine the experiences of the VA staff nurses who worked on the units use...

Opportunities for practice and educational transformations through unlikely partnerships.