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Achieving Competence Today (ACT) Collaborative: Disseminating an Action-Based Inter-Professional Curriculum that Incorporates Quality Improvement

March 25, 2010 | Program Result

ACT created an interactive website and sample curricula for post–medical school physician training programs. Six hospitals adapted, institutionalized and expanded the ACT curriculum at their schools.

Allowing Nurses to Practice Independently Does Not Decrease Physician Earnings

March 23, 2012 | Story

New study comes as reliance on advanced practice registered nurses increases.

An Ambitious Project Measuring Demand for Health Care Providers Scales Back, Discovering What Doesn't Work

October 1, 1998 | Program Result

Investigators at Abt Health Care Research Foundation in Cambridge, Mass., attempted to develop three new methods for measuring the demand for the services of generalist physicians and mid-level practitioners:

APRNs a "Big Part of the Solution" to the Primary Care Provider Shortage

August 29, 2011 | Story

Advanced practice registered nurses are filling unmet needs for primary care, especially in rural and underserved areas. A large body of research shows they are as adept as physicians at providing primary care.

Arizona Assesses its Primary Care Needs and Implements a Strategic Plan

March 1, 2000 | Program Result

Arizona sought to develop a community needs assessment and strategic planning process. Under the planning grant to its Department of Health Services, it launched pilot projects from 1993 to 1995 to test this approach in three communities.

Arkansas Addresses its Large Population Living in Medically Underserved Areas

March 1, 2000 | Program Result

The State of Arkansas Department of Health sought to develop the Arkansas Primary Care Access Project, in which primary care group practices would serve as "hubs" in communities with populations below 10,000.

CITE Project: University of Louisville Family Medicine Residency Program, 2000-03

November 13, 2009 | Program Result

Project faculty named their CITE initiative "Sharing a Team Approach to Resource Utilization: Interprofessional Education & Patient Care," or the "STAR Utilization Project."

Clinical Nurse Leaders as Agents of Change

February 26, 2009 | Story

New role could help redesign health care delivery.

Dan Keuning, Pagosa Springs, Colo.

October 8, 2004 | Story

Getting the necessary training didn't seem possible in Pagosa Springs, and Denver was a six-hour drive. "I didn't want to leave town for three years to go to school," he says.

Developing a Research Network for Nurses

August 21, 2007 | Story

“From a personal perspective, this program was life-transforming,” she says. “I learned it was not good to work seven days a week. It didn't make me a healthy role model. If I took a day or two off, I came back better.”

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