the path to community engagement & impact
Goldfarb envisions preparing a generation of nurses to recognize and address disparities and social determinants and to provide culturally competent care, boosting community health efforts with student and faculty skills, and building a continuum of efforts across BJC, Goldfarb and community partnerships to address health inequities in the St. Louis region.
2.1
Align, organize and structure support of community engagement and impact in classroom, clinical, research and extracurriculars.
2.2
• Align Goldfarb and BJC community health improvement effort for maximum impact.
• Establish a leader for community engagement and coordinate with BJC’s community health leaders.
• Organize roles and responsibilities to drive engagement in priority community efforts/scholarship.
• Coordinate research and community impact work and identify clinical and community issues for further study.
• Collect and track data for continuous improvement of both community practice and clinical outcomes.
Focus learning and service opportunities on critical health needs and disparities—specifically infant mortality, breast cancer mortality, diabetes blood sugar management, mental health—and/or social determinants of health, with particular focus on the health outcomes of the region’s Black/African- American community.
• Conduct focus groups and community and stakeholder needs and preferences assessment to prioritize methods of access and development of solutions.
• Refine student clinicals as part of a larger clinical and community-supported health care initiative.
• Focus community clinicals on the selected clinical areas and populations.
• Continually seek innovative methods of providing community-based student clinicals, including telehealth and other emerging technologies or practices.
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