Georgia Nursing - July 2022
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Page 16 • <strong>Georgia</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> <strong>July</strong>, August, September <strong>2022</strong><br />
Advancing Health Equity in <strong>Georgia</strong> continued from page 14<br />
‣ Strengthen public health infrastructure<br />
immediately and plan for the future<br />
• Increase awareness about public health and<br />
healthcare services<br />
• Prepare for disasters, such as extreme<br />
weather and pandemics, through public<br />
health measures<br />
‣ Develop and maintain a robust healthcare<br />
workforce that involves academia, research, and<br />
practice<br />
• Champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity<br />
[DEI] in the workplace and community<br />
• Ensure workforce demographics reflect<br />
population served<br />
• Advance legislation to reduce practice<br />
restrictions among Advanced Practice<br />
Registered Nurses (APRNs)<br />
• Provide community outreach practicums and<br />
integrate public/community health material in<br />
Schools of <strong>Nursing</strong> in their curriculum<br />
• Support HB430 to mandate collect workforce<br />
data and survey part of re-licensure, including<br />
separate APRN license<br />
We love our nurses!<br />
Now hiring for<br />
Full Time and Part Time Nurses<br />
Rewarding work in a non-hospital setting<br />
Flexible work schedule<br />
Most positions qualify for $5,000 COLA<br />
For More information:<br />
www.myviewpointhealth.org/careers<br />
recruiting@vphealth.org<br />
• Support initiatives that increase pipelines that<br />
allow high school students to understand the<br />
role of the nurse<br />
• Build financial incentive programs that<br />
support nurses to advance their degrees<br />
• Expand the workplace violence legislation to<br />
include all healthcare providers and workers<br />
including first responders.<br />
‣ Address implicit biases and enhance cultural<br />
humility across academia, research, and practice<br />
• Develop programs that train students, staff,<br />
and faculty across <strong>Georgia</strong> Schools of <strong>Nursing</strong><br />
Education. Ensure accountability measures to<br />
foster sustainability<br />
• Prepare our healthcare workforce to work<br />
with diverse populations in <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
• Increase patient access to clinical trials to<br />
advance care outcomes among diverse<br />
populations, especially those who live in rural<br />
areas in <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
‣ Build political will to address and eliminate health<br />
disparities in <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
• Eliminate preventable maternal morbidity and<br />
mortality<br />
• Decrease infant mortality in Blacks by 10% by<br />
2030<br />
• Support & fund home visits (nurse family<br />
partnership)<br />
• Initiate policies to promote legislation for<br />
compassionate immigration reform<br />
• Promote legislation to end hunger and<br />
homelessness in <strong>Georgia</strong><br />
• Restore order, dignity, and equity to<br />
democratic institutions and ensure every<br />
person’s right to vote is protected and<br />
counted equally<br />
‣ Implement strategies to intentionally focus on<br />
mental health<br />
• Support non-profit organizations focused on<br />
the treatment and/or management of mental<br />
illnesses, as well as the promotion of mental<br />
health and wellness<br />
• Incentivize health care professional students<br />
who focus on becoming mental health<br />
providers with scholarships and loan<br />
repayment options<br />
• Build digital and policy infrastructures to<br />
support telehealth for mental health care<br />
• Require law enforcement offices to hire a<br />
proportionate number of mental health<br />
providers to receive specialized training to<br />
assist, support, and lead (when necessary)<br />
de-escalate encounters between police/<br />
sheriff’s officers and civilians<br />
• Incentivize health care organizations that<br />
focus on the treatment of mental illness<br />
• Incentivize health care organizations to<br />
expand telemedicine to support rural health<br />
care needs<br />
A call for all <strong>Georgia</strong> nurses to support your<br />
professional nurses associations, personally contact<br />
your state legislators (get to know them and them to<br />
know you), and exercise your right to VOTE in every<br />
election: local, state, and national. Nurses will have a<br />
pivotal role in transforming health care as we vision<br />
a post pandemic future. Remember to exercise your<br />
VOICE with your VOTE.<br />
Evidentiary Support and References<br />
Al-Agba, N, (2020). https://www.medpagetoday.com/<br />
blogs/kevinmd/84362; https://www.marchofdimes.org/<br />
mission/reportcard.aspx). (Retrieved January 14, 2020)<br />
American Association of Colleges of <strong>Nursing</strong>. (2021).<br />
The essentials: Core competencies for professional<br />
nursing education. https://www.aacnnursing.org/<br />
Portals/42/Academic<strong>Nursing</strong>/pdf/Essentials-2021.pdf<br />
(Retrieved April 10, 2021)<br />
American Nurses Association (2020). Ethics and<br />
Human Rights. Code of Ethics for Nurses. https://www.<br />
nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nursing-excellence/<br />
ethics/code-of-ethics-for-nurses/<br />
Artiga, S. & Hinton, E. (2018). Beyond Health care:<br />
The role of social determinants in promoting health<br />
and health inequity. https://www.kff.org/racial-equityand-health-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-therole-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-andhealth-equity<br />
(Retrieved April 1, 2021).<br />
HIRING<br />
RNs & LPNs<br />
Join the Crisp Regional Team!<br />
crispregional.org<br />
Contact: Ashley Purvis, Human Resource Recruiter at<br />
229-276-3113 • apurvis@crispregional.org
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