Equitable access to health care is a key indicator of safety and quality of care and is fundamental to the performance of our health system. Nurses work at the intersections between primary, community and the acute health services and therefore play an important role in navigating prompt access and advocating for system improvements that meet the needs of all people seeking health care. This year the Department of Nursing, The University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre are proud to co-host a public Nursing Seminar Series event that will explore the concept of fair health care and the critical role that nurses play in closing the equity gap.
Our four-part series aims to:
- Explore the design, implementation, and evaluation of nurse-led models of care that address equity of access to health care for vulnerable populations
- Consider strategies to optimise nurses’ scope of practice to enable better access to healthcare
- Foster networking and collaboration among clinicians, researchers and students with an interest in health services research focussed on advancing equity of access to healthcare.
Nursing Seminar Series: Thursday 19 October - Professor Mei Krishnasamy and colleagues
Panel: ‘Social determinants of health - routine data collection and its capacity to inform service redesign and models of care.’
4pm to 6pm
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
305 Grattan Street, Melbourne (level 7)
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Professor Krishnasamy holds the inaugural Chair in Cancer Nursing at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of nurse-led interventions targeted at improving patient and carer experiences of living with a diagnosis of cancer, demands of treatment and symptom profiles. She is particularly interested in the development and evaluation of nursing and allied health-led services. The focus of her work has been on generating new knowledge through diverse research projects and methodologies, and increasingly, on the best ways of meaningfully translating new and existing evidence into clinical practice. She has considerable teaching and post-graduate supervision experience. She also holds national leadership positions on nursing and multi-disciplinary oncology societies (CNSA and COSA).