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HealthCetera on Thursday, March 31, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM and streamed live at www.wbai.org.

IMG_3369In March, Senior Fellow and co-host of HealthCetera, Kristi Westphaln,  joined hundreds of nurse practitioners from across the country on Capitol Hill to chat on hot topics in health care at the 2016 American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Health Policy Conference.

 

In this second interview co-host Westphaln interviews Sarah Marlow, Family Nurse Practitioner and professor of health policy is known to her 8K Twitter followers as @MissFNP. Marlow walks us through why full practice authority for nurse practitioners is a hot topic in health care today. 

Approximately 205,000 nurse practitioners are currently licensed across the United States. Research has demonstrated that nurse practitioners improve access to health care, achieve high patient satisfaction scores, improve health outcomes, and decrease health costs. 

HealthCetera on Thursday, March 31, 2016 from

HealthCetera on Thursday, March 31, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM and streamed live at www.wbai.org.

In March, Senior Fellow and co-host of HealthCetera, Kristi Westphaln,  joined hundreds of nurse practitioners from across the country on Capitol Hill to chat on hot topics in health care at the 2016 American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Health Policy Conference. Her adventures in advocacy included a delve into the inner workings of how advanced practice nursing fits into the Affordable Health Care Act, hearing the fantastic news anchor Candy Crowley deliver a keynote speech on how nurse practitioners fit into the health care landscape, and meeting with the epic Congresswoman Lois Capps!

From the left: Nancy Selix, Kristi Westphaln, Lois Capps, Carol Greene

From the left: Nancy Selix, Kristi Westphaln, Lois Capps, Carol Greene

Westphaln interviews Lee Moss, MS, APRN, ANP-C, FNP-BC, CWS, a Nurse Practitioner at the University of Utah Burn Outpatient Clinic and the Utah State Representative of The American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Hear his path to political activism and the current health policy issues the AANP is in Washington DC to advocate for on behalf of all people.

HealthCetera on Thursday, March 31, 2016 from

HealthCetera March 31, 2016 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM airs on WBAI 99.5 FM and streamed live on www.wbai.org

Barbara Glickstein’s interviews MakerNurse co-founder Anna Young who returns to HealthCetera to update us on where things have evolved since the launch of this initiative in 2013. “MakerNurse honors the inventive spirit of nurses across America, and seeks to bring nurse making to the forefront of health care.” Find out about the first health care maker space that’s been set up in John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. Over 100 nurses have been at the space and 15 prototypes have been created. You can listen to the interview here.

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