The Academies Talks Health & Medicine

Explore how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while working across sectors, keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030.

Show Notes

Explore recommendations and conclusions from the National Academies report, the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while working across sectors, keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. In this episode, Mary K. Wakefield and David R. Williams discuss how nurses are uniquely positioned to address social determinants of health and emphasize the resources and support nurses need to achieve health equity.   

What is The Academies Talks Health & Medicine?

Join the National Academies Health and Medicine Division as we explore the most pressing issues in public health with experts from around the nation and the world. Each episode in this podcast will focus on a different health topic and explore a new publication from the division.