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Mary Atkinson Smith1,2, W Todd Smith1,2
1Mary Atkinson Smith, DNP, FNP, ONP-C, FAANP, Board Certified Nurse Practitioner and Rural Health Policy Advocate in Mississippi; PhD student in Public Policy and Administration at Mississippi State University.
Abstract:
Health equity has become both a national and international health priority when addressing health disparities that influence health outcomes across all patient populations. Orthopaedic nurses play a critical role in advancing health equity among orthopaedic patients when it comes to ensuring orthopaedic patients have fair and just opportunities to achieve their best state of musculoskeletal health. For health equity to be realized by the specialty of orthopaedics and the orthopaedic patient populations being served, it is important for the orthopaedic nurse to be involved in community-based partnerships, research opportunities, and health policy initiatives that focus on the advancement of health equity for all populations.
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