Recruitment, Education, and Employment of Primary Care Providers for Underserved Populations (REEP)

Through the REEP Project, we are providing a relevant and evidence-based curriculum including academic and practicum experiences aimed at preparing nurse practitioners who can be entrusted to deliver evidence-based, culturally competent, skilled primary care for underserved, disadvantaged, racial, and ethnic minority groups in our community. The purpose of this project is employment of Nurse Practitioners ready and willing to care for underserved populations.

The following goals have been established to achieve the project outcome: Goal One: Recruit, educate, and mentor new diverse nurse practitioner primary care providers with financial support. Goal Two: Establish innovative educational opportunities via new academic/practice partnerships with community agencies who share a mission of delivering high quality and accessible health care to underserved, disadvantaged, and geographically isolated clients. Goal Three: Collaborate with practice partners to provide clinical immersion opportunities for DNP students to enhance their knowledge, skill, and ability (KSA) to care for persons of underserved/rural populations. Goal Four: Team with practice partners, the University, and community employment agencies to develop and implement strategies for connecting program graduates to primary care employment with rural and/or underserved populations.  

• Promoting Depression Assessment and Management in Rural Communities Through Telehealth
• Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through the Implementation of the Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patient's Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE)
• An Untapped Resource to Providing Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
• Enhancing Hypertension Self-Management Strategies through the Caring Heart Program
• Managing Obesity in Adults through a Culturally-Tailored,, Patient-Centered Program
• Improving Knowledge of and Willingness to Receive the Influenza Vaccine: A Community Action Program
• Improving Eating Habits and Preventing Emergency Room Overutilization in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
• Increasing Hepatitis C Virus Screening in a Community Healthcare Setting
• Addressing the Polypharmacy Epidemic Among Older Hispanic Adults
• Adherence to Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) in African-Americans
• Traffic Light Diet: An Integration of Public Health and Primary Care Interventions to Address Childhood Obesity
• Use of a Patient Centered Transition of Care Program to Decrease Hospitalization in Adults with Heart Failure and/or COPD  

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