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Deborah Washington, PhD, RN, and John Nguyen-Yap, MSW shared on-the-ground initiatives in BIPOC communities, including services that promote culturally competent care and successful Public Service Announcements. We also explored strategies to improve access to vaccine education and distribution among Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities.
Across the country, health centers and other community-based providers are tasked with supporting large scale COVID-19 vaccine rollouts for their patients and communities. This demand has expanded the workload of providers, staff, and volunteers. The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, Public Health Management Corporation, and the Philadelphia Department of Health formed an innovative partnership to address this need by deploying AmeriCorps members to assist with vaccine delivery.
Dr. Kelly Wolgast, Director of the COVID-19 Operations Control Center at Pennsylvania State University, discussed developing protocols for COVID testing and response through universities. Dr. Wolgast has many years of executive nursing and healthcare leadership experience, and brings a unique perspective from serving 26 years on Active Duty in the United States Army as an Army Nurse and retiring as a Colonel.
Dr. Stephen Perez, a Lieutenant in the U.S Public Health Service and nurse epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses strategies and key messaging for building vaccine confidence among health care personnel and guidance for leading effective vaccine conversations with staff at your health care facility.
Dr. Eyob Feyssa reviewed hepatitis B virus knowledge and current epidemiological and behavioral risk trends for African and Caribbean immigrant populations. He provided recommendations based on guidelines for screening and treating patients with HBV infection, and he reviewed evidence of benefits from antiviral therapy and associated reduction of risks for liver cancer.
In this session, we explored innovative partnerships that engage students to support COVID-19 education, outreach, and vaccine efforts. Our panel of nursing experts discussed how to mobilize a student workforce through schools of nursing and collaboration with regional Area Health Education Centers (AHECs).
Ariel MacNeill and Bianca Taipe from the Nationalities Services Center, whose mission focuses on welcoming immigrants and refugees and connecting them to services in Philadelphia, PA, review cultural and self-humility as it relates to providing health care and social services to people coming from different cultural identities. The presenters also discuss trauma-informed practice and barriers that different populations face in accessing health care, as well as resources to address those barriers.
Watch the first session of the Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series, where we heard diverse perspectives from the nursing community and discussed how to become a vaccine ambassador as a first step to building trust in public health and the COVID-19 vaccine.
