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The Nurse Practitioners who founded NP Outreach got their start by writing a grant proposal. That program was funded by the Mass Dept of Public Health and a regional hospital as a pilot outreach parenting program for families in 1992 called “With Child”. In the years that followed the program developers learned several things:
- Grant writing and networking are ongoing time consuming activities, but are vital to the survival of all outreach programs.
- Nurse Practitioners are extremely effective health educators with unique abilities to understand and support their local population’s needs.
- Community based educational programs have unique abilities to address the local population’s health care needs.
- Nurse Practitioners often lack the time and funding to do the amount of outreach that is requested of them by patients, hospitals, community organizations, schools, businesses, health maintenance organizations, and primary care offices; unless coordination, encouragement and support are provided to them.
- Businesses, government and Community organizations often share common goals with health care providers in the area of public health education, but require coordination to join forces in achieving those goals.
- Patients learn best in a comfortable social setting, rather than the undressed sterile typical medical exam room setting.
- Gift bags and other motivational incentives are effective methods for bringing patients to health promotion activities.
- Chronic health care problems are not effectively prevented or treated in the acute care setting, as demonstrated by increasing rates of diabetes, cardiac disease, COPD, mental illness, and obesity in the United States.
- Group Medical Visits and Shared Medical Visits are interesting new billable service delivery models, that are difficult to accommodate within most primary care offices.
- Bringing patients into wellness and health promoting settings is a way for Nurse Practitioners to break up the chronic illness office visit patterns and introduce patients to local currently under utilized resources.
It was through the process of repeatedly writing grants, networking with Community organizations and businesses, working with fellow NP’s and refining outreach programs and curriculum that Nurse Practitioner Outreach was formed. We invite you to join the team.
If you are an experienced Nurse Practitioner and would like to learn more about becoming an NP Outreach Presenter, please take some time to complete our simple application either by:
- Using the corresponding link on the left to download & print the application and mail it, along with your resume, to the address on the form.
- Using the corresponding link on the left to complete the form online and attach your résumé.
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Often funding for gift bag purchases and publicity are provided by the center offering the healthy lifestyle classes, out of the funds they receive from participant class enrollment fees..
How NP Outreach Can Help Your Practice:
- Provide you with marketing and motivational linkages with which to draw larger attendance to your health education outreach.
- Strengthen your relationship with community organizations such as schools, fitness clubs, hospitals and senior centers by supporting their health promotion programs.
- Inspire patients to implement healthy lifestyle changes.
- Enhance your ability to grow your practice.
- Assist you to make your community aware of the Nurse Practitioner Role in delivering health care services.
- Help you identify resources for funding your community outreach activities.
- Provide you with educational outreach information, training, and support.
- Assist your professional medical colleagues in identifying you, the Nurse Practitioner, as a unique asset to their medical practice.
- Help you to reduce unnecessary primary care visits, while reducing morbidity and mortality in your community.
- Provide you with opportunities to deliver your health care message outside of your usual daily practice setting, thereby lending more diversity to your professional life and reducing the risk of Nurse “burn out”.
Potential Funding Sources
Often funding for gift bag purchases and publicity are provided by the center offering the healthy lifestyle classes, out of the funds they receive from participant class enrollment fees. Centers have found it very worthwhile to host and cover the costs of your event, because it significantly increases value and participation in their center based groups.
However, these are some examples of other ways to cover the costs of your event, if you have no practice marketing funds available:
www.transformed.com/resources/groupVisits.cfm
Kaiser Permanente has adapted the DIGMA model for group medical visits and made a video about how to do it; Group Health Cooperative has copies of the videos. Materials are available through Kaiser Colorado 303-657-6808; Contact John Scott, MD.
We also recommend the following articles:
- Noffsinger E. Establishing successful primary care and subspecialty drop-in group medical appointments (DIGMAs) in your group practice. Group Practice Journal 1999;48(4).
- Thompson E. The power of group visits. Modern Healthcare June 5, 2000.
- Scott J, Robertson B. Kaiser Colorado’s cooperative health care clinic: A group approach to patient care. Managed Care Quarterly 1996:4(3);41-45.