UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HEALTH AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE:
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING SUMMIT
Hamilton, Canada
April 15-17, 2015
The overall goal of the Summit was to address the APN role in the promotion of primary health
care in the Americas. The objectives included:
- To define the scope of nursing roles and advanced practice nursing in primary health care in Pan American countries
- To discuss the context in different countries’ experience with nurses’ changing roles and/or responsibilities (RN, APN) and access to primary health care, i.e., universal access, professional preparation, regulation, the scope of nursing practice and global strategy.
- To develop strategies for the implementation of the APN roles in primary health care in Latin America and advance the role of APNs in the Caribbean to address:
- Gaps in health services and unmet population needs
- Changes to nurses’ roles and/or responsibilities that can leverage APN expertise
- Factors that might enable these changes in nurses roles and/or responsibilities
- To anticipate the impact of leveraging the APN role on population health and health systems in Pan–American countries
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