USA CON Nursing Recruitment and Education to Expand Access to Culturally-aligned Healthcare (Nursing REEACH) ECHO®
Attention Healthcare Providers – If your patients benefit from comprehensive integrated healthcare, from local people they know and trust, then the USA CON REEACH ECHO® program can provide you with interprofessional telementoring.
No cost to participate | Free continuing education credits available to eligible participants.
Mission
In response to national health professional shortages, Colleges of Nursing, Medicine, and Allied Health around the country have increased enrollment. Often, nursing students emerge from nursing education programs inadequately prepared to understand the consequences of social determinants of health (SDOH) and the importance of providing safe and equitable care across diverse populations. Concurrently, the COVID-19 pandemic has decreased the volume of clinical training opportunities due to initial safety concerns and ongoing staff shortages. The REEACH nurse training program addresses the need for an enhanced didactic curriculum related to SDOH and health equity concepts for current students and through the USA CON REEACH ECHO® program outreaches to the community nurse and healthcare worker.
USA CON REEACH Nurse Training Program
REEACH is designed to provide longitudinal experiential training experiences for RN-to-BSN and APRN students in rural and underserved communities through clinical experiences on nurse-led mobile health units. For more information on this training program, visit the REEACH Program web page.
USA CON REEACH ECHO® Purpose
To bring healthcare professionals together in a virtual learning environment where collaboration and connection with subject matter experts will increase the community-based learning and collaboration to improve health equity and impact SDOH using a comprehensive approach to provide culturally aligned care in rural and underserved communities through nurse-led interprofessional teams
Our ECHO® programming consists of the following:
- A Zoom session (6 monthly sessions)
- A short lecture provided by subject matter experts
- A case scenario presentation and discussion
- Questions, discussion, and engagement with other providers and experts
Launch Date: July 20, 2023
Session Dates
Year 2023 - 2024
Monthly for 6 sessions
This USA CON REEACH ECHO® series will consist of six (6) sessions. All sessions are 90 minutes, from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m., Central Time.
| Session | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 |
July 20, 2023
|
Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in hypertension screening: Understanding social determinants of health |
| Session 2 | August 17, 2023 | Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in HIV/AIDs screening: Understanding social determinants of health impact |
| Session 3 | September 21, 2023 | Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in diabetes screening: Understanding social determinants of health impact |
| Session 4 | October 19, 2023 | Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in depression screening: Understanding social determinants of health impact |
| Session 5 | February 15, 2024 | Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in heart disease and cholesterol screening: Understanding social determinants of health impact |
| Session 6 | March 21, 2024 | Meeting community health needs by having a better understanding of racial and ethnic differences in obesity screening: Understanding social determinants of health impact |
To Join
To join the USA CON REEACH ECHO®, please complete the Registration Form. Upon completion you will be automatically registered for all six (6) interactive, ninety (90) minute Zoom sessions. We encourage you to join in all sessions but attendance at all sessions is not mandatory. Registration will remain open during the series period.
Project ECHO®: The University of South Alabama collects registration, participation, questions/answers, chat comments, and poll responses for ECHO® programs. Your individual data will be kept confidential. These data may be used for reports, maps, communications, surveys, quality assurance, evaluation, research, and to inform new initiatives.
Questions? Email us - USA CON REEACH ECHO® - at reeachecho@southalabama.edu.
The USA CON REEACH ECHO® is funded by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling approximately $3.6 million, with zero percentage financed by nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official view of nor an endorsement of HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. government.