Aesthetics and Technology Integration in a Community-Based Primary Care Nursing Curriculum.

Background: Reconceptualized nursing education can prepare registered nurses to practice at the full scope of licensure on interprofessional teams across care continua while enhancing the quality of health care systems.

Problem: Traditional nursing programs minimally address primary care competencies. Rapidly changing managed care models demand nurses develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively deliver population health, primary care, care coordination, and disease prevention/management services across care continua.

Latino grandparent opportunity to influence family health behaviors: The Healthy Us Grandparent Study (HUGS).

Introduction: Latino children are the fastest growing population of obese children in the United States, the most obese group of children by race and a significant disparity in childhood obesity. Extended family, often grandparents, are traditionally involved in childcare in Latino family structure, yet their influence on family health behaviors is unclear. This study explored grandparent involvement in the care of Latino children in South Texas and their possible influence on child body mass index (BMI) and family health behaviors to determine if they present an opportunity to improve child obesity treatment plans.

A Quality Improvement Initiative: Improving Mammogram Screening Rates Among Low-income Hispanic Women in Primary Care.

Background: Low-income women of predominantly Hispanic ethnicity between the ages of 50-74 who receive primary care services in a South Texas region experienced a 12% disparity gap for women completing a screening mammogram in the last 2 years when compared to Hispanic women nationally.

Objective: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) initiative is to design and implement interdisciplinary evidence-based interventions to improve the screening mammogram completion rates in a primary care clinical setting.

Methods: Following a systematic review and selection of two evidence-based breast cancer risk screening tools, a pre-post intervention was conducted.

A neighborhood-centered clinical project: improving diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes in Hispanic women.

Neighborhood-centered disease prevention programs have become a growing means of introducing baccalaureate nursing students to health care systems. This article reports diabetes and cardiovascular clinical outcomes and health behavior changes made following a 2-year baccalaureate community/public health clinical project and partnership with an urban Hispanic neighborhood. This pilot study used a pretest-posttest design without comparators.