Close encounters of the clinical kind: Connecting with healthcare providers working with under-resourced patients

Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference presentation spotlight

Nurse practitioner Barbara Wise has used Bridges in her practice with under-resourced patients for 20 years. Barbara and Terie Dreussi-Smith recently published a scholarly paper linking Bridges, population health, and health practice. Here is a close-up view of Bridges skill sets at the most professionally intimate level—the typical office visit. Participants will also codesign impact step sheets for providers and patients.

Learning objectives include:

Review the targeted Bridges to Health and Healthcare insights and strategies Wise developed from the individual lens of a healthcare practitioner.
Engage in a small-group exercise to co-design and build Impact steps sheets for healthcare providers and patients.
Analyze and discuss the efficacy of using the Bridges to Health and Healthcare lens and skill sets as a practitioner or Bridges health advocate.

Target audience: Advanced aha! Process users, Healthcare, Bridges Out of Poverty, Business

Presenter: Terie Dreussi-Smith, author, consultant, @DreussiSmith_T, aha! Process, Seneca, South Carolina

Time/Location: Monday, September 24, Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference, Atlanta, Georgia

About the Author: aha! Process

aha! Process is an award-winning training and publishing company providing workshops, publications, and consulting services to help improve lives and build sustainable success in communities, schools, and higher education. We do this by creating an understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to systems level.